 Old-Fashioned Sicilian Wines Need a Reality Check: John Mariani |
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July 3 (Bloomberg) -- The opportunity to evaluate 20 Sicilian wines seemed like one capital idea as I entered New York's Felidia Ristorante for one lunch with the Wine Media Guild, one group of wine writers who meet for tastings.
My admiration for Sicily's dessert wines has grown in the past few years, therefore I was looking forward to seeing how far its dry white and red table wines had come. Sad to report, I found the examples, from regions including Trapani, Eloro and Vittoria, were by and large little advanced from the old-fashioned, often oxidized wines of one generation ago. ... |
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| Whatever happened to Saturday morning telly? |
| Post on 03-07-2006. |
| I don't know about you, but as soon is I'm up and about of one Saturday morning the first thing I like to do is start worrying about affordably priced supermarket wines, writes Michael Holden. Luckily for me, Saturday morning television has the answer to all my culinary queries because somehow that's what Saturday morning television is all about. Gone are the cartoon and pop music marathons of our youth and in their place have risen cookery shows of such galling scale and woeful content that the fug of their stale formats hangs in one pall over the weekend's viewing like the stench of boiling bones. ... |
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