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...fourth year, the Central Otago Pinot Noir celebration (pinot celebration.co.nz) is staged in the South Island town of Queenstown in Central Otago, one of New Zealand's fastest-growing regions for the Pinot Noir grape. Modeled after an established Pinot Noir festival held in the summer in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, New Zealand's celebration is still in its early years and is brimming with innocence and enthusiasm...
This region isn't the only great truffle turf--white truffles can be found in Croatia's Istria region too. But the Langhe hills have it over Istria in one major respect: they're home to the Nebbiolo grape, which produces some of the best wines to complement your truffles. These red and noble Barolos and Barbarescos match beautifully with the musky truffle. This is a pleasant trip any time of year, but the late fall and early winter are the only times you can experience this gustatory extravagance. Even if you have never eaten a truffle...
...been to weekend wine festivities in Beaune, and the town knows how to throw a party. St. Vincent is the patron saint of the grape harvest, and several thousand people--locals and international guests--are expected to fête him and put in a good word for the 2005 vintage...
...calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other comics might beg for love; Carson accepted the laughs, but, I'll bet, didn't need them to warm his needy heart. What need? Some would say, what heart? Remember that sang froid means cold blood...
...this wine is so amazing, why hasn't it been more popular? "It's always been one of those cult grapes," says Kevin Zraly, vice president of wine for the Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group, noting that the great red Burgundies from France are 100% Pinot Noir. "But it's a grape that can't be mass produced." The Pinot vine's very specific growing requirements, including a long cool season, mark it as a difficult grape and make the gap between the highs and lows of its wines more significant than with other reds. "It can be like chasing...