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The Italian Wine & Food Institute is a non-profit organization founded in 1983. The headquarter is in New York City and its president is Lucio Caputo. [ 1 ] The institute's goal [ 2 ] is the enhancement of the image and prestige of Italian wines , gastronomy and food products in the United States . [ 3 ]
The America-Italy Society of Philadelphia arranges various events each year that educate its members on Italian history, language culture, art, and literature. AISPHILA hosts monthly films that are shown in Italian with English subtitles introduced by a guest lecturer. [5]
Zraly's book Windows on the World Complete Wine Course with its annual updates, is among America's best-selling wine books selling over 3 million copies worldwide. Kevin Zraly's American Wine Guide (2006) is the first book that deals comprehensively with all 50 states as modern wine-producing states. [ 5 ]
Italian wine producers recognized him as their guru. In the words of Bruno Giacosa: "Gino (as he was known to friends) was all heart, he was the first person to teach us that a great wine was born in the vineyards. He was the first to point out the absolute necessity of carefully selecting grapes in the vineyards, the importance of terroir, of ...
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In 1881, Andrea Sbarboro founded an agricultural colony at Asti (named for Asti in Italy), primarily focused on grapes.Sbarboro's intent was to establish a profitable enterprise that would provide work for the many Italians who had migrated to San Francisco (although there were at first some Italian speaking Swiss from Ticino, thus giving the colony its name, it soon became an entirely Italian ...
[3] [5] In 1997, Ewing-Mulligan bought Hotchkin's shares in the International Wine Center. [7] The IWC is esteemed among the U.S. leading wine schools. [8] Ewing-Mulligan is a columnist for Wine Review Online and has previously served as wine columnist for The New York Daily News and wine correspondent on the radio program The Splendid Table. [2]
Indicazione geografica tipica (Italian: [indikatˈtsjoːne dʒeoˈɡraːfika ˈtiːpika]) is the third of four classifications of wine recognized by the government of Italy. Created to recognize the unusually high quality of the class of wines known as Super Tuscans , IGT wines are labeled with the locality of their creation.