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For a Manhattanite, or an ancient Roman, getting oriented in Bolgheri is a cinch. It’s a perfect grid, after all — our cup of tea. To the west is the Tyrrhenian sea, reflecting a wonderful shimmering light late into the magic hour and ventilating the coastal vineyards with a steady [...]
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I don’t run with the crowd that can afford the great, iconoclastic wines of Bolgheri: Sassicaia, Ornellaia, and the like. Not with their $200-250 price tag.
But that doesn’t mean I should deprive myself of coastal Super Tuscans, the Mediterranean’s answer to Bordeaux. I, too, want to enjoy their elegance and [...]
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The wine blogger gasped. “Attilo Scienza was here? And the room was half empty?” Indeed, the threat of a snowstorm and Friday restaurant duties kept many from hearing the best speaker at VINO 2010, the Italian wine conference in New York (February 3-5).
A professor of enology at [...]
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