Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Villa Banfi's leap into winemaking at a time when large corporations like Atlanta's Coca-Cola are getting out of the business seems at first surprising. But Villa Banfi's products may be the right wines at the right time. American demand for Italian wines is strong despite a worldwide glut that has hurt growers in California, West Germany and France. In 1982, Italian labels accounted for 59% of all table wine imported into...
...addition to expanding its markets, Villa Banfi is developing wines that are more upscale than Riunite. Directing that effort is Chief Oenologist Ezio Rivella, 50, the first Italian ever elected to head the Union Internationale des Oenologues in Paris. Rivella has helped develop new wine-production techniques that do not require additives like sulfur dioxide and allow white wine to be shipped abroad without alteration of its taste or color...
...Villa Banfi's new wines are promising. The company will introduce its Chardonnay next spring, a cabernet sauvignon in the fall and a Brunello di Montalcino in 1985. The most interesting product from the company will be a Moscadello di Montalcino, a frizzante white wine, first made in the 17th century, that has been out of production for 50 years...
Villa Banfi's most arduous wine-making challenge, though, is still to come. Following the lead of other vintners, the company is going to try to make wine on New York's Long Island. It has already planted 15 acres on its Old Brookville estate with Chardonnay grapes, and company officials hope to put in more vines during the next two years. Although isolated vineyards have been cultivated on Long Island for 300 years, no famous wine labels have emerged from the area. Villa Banfi wants to change that by bottling a world-class Nassau bianco...
...hundred collected stories by Colette make for a sumptuous display, rather like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: "Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hothouse grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal...