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Wine News - April 2004 |
Company of the Month |
Buta Stupa™ Project |
This month we depart from our exploration of the Italian wine roads to extend our support to an initiative that we judge worthy: the Buta Stupa™ project.
Buta Stupa™ sprang from a very simple idea: leave the restaurant with the paid for, unfinished bottle of wine instead of leaving without it.
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The Chef's Corner |
Unfortunately, because of the time spent getting ready for WineCountry.IT official debut at Vinitaly 2004 in Verona, Italy, we were not able to update this column.
We apologize with our readers and re-propose the previous interviews, for the ones among you that missed them the first time around.
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Welcome to Volume 2, Number 04 of Wine News, the e-Letter from the WineCountry.IT network. (Versione Italiana)
We are very excited as we get ready to go to Vinitaly 2004, in Verona, at for the first time as WineCountry.IT.
This marks truly an important date for us, as of this time last year, WineCountry.IT was founded. It is nice to look back on all the work done in the past 12 months. We saw an idea bloom into the online editorial reality that WineCountry.IT is today. We have spent the past year living and breathing this project, dedicating virtually all our waking hours to it. It has been worthwhile though, to spend literally thousands of hours at the computer exchanging e-mails with associates, designing and coding web pages, writing, translating and editing articles. We are proud and gratified by results achieved. For instance, www.winecountry.it alone was visited by over 13,000 people in March, an average of almost 500 visitors per day.
Looking forward we see a lot more exciting work awaiting us.
We have launched five web sites and are building seven more that will be launched before the end of the year. We have a lot of interesting wine professionals to meet, Italian wineries and Agriturismo to visit, regional recipes to try out and, of course, many and many more wines to taste. We particularly appreciate this last part.
The Italian and English web sites in our network are becoming more and more popular. The number of monthly visitors to WineCountry.IT (bilingual), Vino Italiano Club (Italian), ABC Vino (Italian), Italian Wine Hub (English) and Italian Wine Labels (English), keeps on growing. The weeks preceding Vinitaly our database were particularly busy, as we were consulted by a large number of both Italian producers and foreign importers.
While getting ready for Vinitaly, we are looking forward to the next big appointment for Italian and international wines, the first MiWine Annual, that will take place in Milan, Italy next June and to which we the first article in this issue of 'Wine News'. The e-Letter brings you the usual variety of articles as well as the 'Dates to Remember' in the next 30 days. The following articles are published in Italian on WineCountry.IT, Vino Italiano Club and ABC Vino. The English Versions are published in a different section of WineCountry.IT and on Italian Wine Hub and Italian Wine Labels.
For April, 2004 we decided to dedicate the column "The Company of the Month" to the Buta Stupa™ Project.
The staff of WineCountry.IT network wishes all our subscribers happy reading! |
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From Italy |
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The MiWine and the Market (First of Four Parts) |
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We are excited as we get ready to go to the Vinitaly, in Verona, Italy for the first time as WineCountry.IT. We are already looking forward however, to the MiWine, the new wine trade show taking place in June in Milan, Italy. This is the first part of a four-part article that takes an analytical look of the state of the market and how the MiWine places itself in the current enological panorama.
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"Tour & Food Italia", a New Bilingual Magazine |
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The first issue of "Tour & Food Italia", a new bilingual, bimonthly magazine dedicated to traveling and Italian eno-gastronomy, will be introduced Thursday, March 25 at 5:00PM at “The Westin Excelsior” Hotel, in Florence, Italy.
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Strolling & Tasting ... in Carpineto Romano |
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 between 10:30AM and 8:30PM Carpineto Romano hosts a fascinating eno-gastronomic event featuring guided walks in downtown historic Carpineto Romano, Italy, the birthplace of Pope Leone 13th in 1810.
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From Europe |
Michelin Red Guide 2004 France is Now Available |
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Three restaurants were awarded the coveted three star rating in the Michelin Red Guide 2004 France, the highly considered gastronomic guidebook known for launching, and sometime destroying, the careers of chefs and the fortune of restaurants all over Europe.
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From the USA |
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Cal-Ital Tales (First of Four Parts) |
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Seven years ago, the grape used in Italy to make Chianti seemed like 'the next big thing' here in California. Farmers rushed to plant it; wineries rushed to bottle it. And why not? Americans love Italian food, so it seemed logical that they would want the sort of wines that go with it in the Old Country.
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Italian Pinot Grigio in the United States |
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WineCountry.IT tips on Italian Pinot Grigio to be drunk now and are available in the United States at a good value for their price. If they seem a little pricey to the Italian readers, well, they are. One of the main reasons for it, is the weak dollar that has inflated the price of all goods imported into the US, including Italian wines.
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From the World |
Is Glass a Thing of the Past? |
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Air New Zealand has jointly patented a technology that it says could revolutionize the wine world. It is the Pettle, or what the layman would call a plastic wine bottle with a screw-top.
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"Italian Wine Hub" web site buzz |
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Oak Alternatives, or, The American Way |
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Some time ago, there was an interesting article in The San Francisco Chronicle, by Jordan Mackay – "Playing with Fire / Love it or Hate it, Oak Adds a Dose of Character to Wine" – about how, after grapes, oak is the most important ingredient in modern wine making.
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"Italian Wine Labels" web site buzz |
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