Word: pinot
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Here's the scenario: a guest arrives at your house with a fine bottle of Pinot Grigio that you suddenly realize is--gasp!--room temperature. No problem. Just add ice and water to your Cooper Cooler ($80), plug it in, and in about six minutes the wine will be perfectly chilled. Now, to open the bottle, grab the battery-powered corkscrew from Select Brands ($25; a rechargeable version is available for $50), press a button, and with almost no effort on your part, the cork comes free. A productivity gain that everyone can applaud...
...attending are slim, if last year is anything to go by - the 10,500 tickets for the 2002 event sold out in less than an hour. Console yourself with the Great Fitzroy Mussel Fest (a vast mussel bake on Great Barrier Island on Jan. 10, 2004), or Wellington's Pinot Noir 2004 - a taste-and-talk fest for lovers of the trendy varietal from Jan. 28-Jan. 31. The Hawkes Bay Festival (Feb. 6-Feb. 9) sees open house, if not open bar, at 25 wineries in the country's best-known wine region, plus a program of supporting events...
...reading, however. After the discussions end, mothers and sons separate to gab and hang out. "If we just got up at the end of the book discussion and left," says Joan Grossbart, mother of Matt, 13, "it would be a very different group." Besides, who would finish off the Pinot Grigio and popcorn...
...best among their discoveries included the Chardonnay Barrique of Morocco ("the finest white wine in North Africa"), Algeria's Domaine Ouzeva 96 (cabernet sauvigon) from Medea ("an area too dangerous to visit"), the Moelleux (chenin blanc) from Réunion, and Richard Leakey's Kenyan Ol Choro Onyore Pinot Noir 2001. Having had a go at uncorking Africa, they have now set their sights on South America. "We hear we might find some of the highest vineyards in the world in Ecuador," says John. "If we get there, we'll drink to that." And devotees of their guide will look...
...points to Marchesi de Frescobaldi--best known for its Tuscan red wines, such as Nipozzano Chianti Rufina--which has acquired property in Friuli to make Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio and Ribolla Gialla white wines. "The Italians have figured it out--how to create tastes that suit the American palate," says John Fredrickson of Gomberg, Fredrickson & Associates, a wine-industry consultancy in San Francisco. In the U.S. market, Italian Pinot Grigios represent the largest import category. At the higher end of the market, the new category of Super Tuscans--such as Tignanello and Sassicaia--are commanding prices of $80 a bottle...