Off-duty Michelin-starred chefs head to a local restaurant (Pane Vino) and Spring Studios, where they shoot Louis Vuitton and Salvatore Ferragamo campaigns, has forged a partnership with the New York creative mega agency, KCD so town cars purr in a backstreet where you used to fear for your hubcaps.
What Hedges fails to recognize, however, is that critical wine rating has grown in ubiquity on a parallel path with the growth of wines available to the consumer who are mostly inundated with a wall of wine and abundance of choice when all they truly want is a lovely bottle of vino for dinner.
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New York - Oenophiles know that the savvy imbiber can find a perfectly serviceable bottle of vino on the cheap.
Cuando vino por primera vez a mi pais yo estaba cursando 6to grado de primaria y recuerdo que conocimos su vida, su obra en el Colegio, recuerdo las imagenes en television y lo que me venia a la mente era bondad, amistad y paz, algo que vivi cuando lo vi en su segunda visita: la paz que contagiaba era increible.
With a quietly chic decor warmed by wood floors and bistro-style tables, Vino Hirata (3456-4744) in Azabu Juban is a good choice for a quiet evening with a few friends.
They produce top-quality white wines in a country that has traditionally specialised in vino tinto.
Speckled by ancient ruins, it even has a wine route: the Strada del Vino Costa degli Etruschi, which runs south from Livorno to Piombino and across to the island of Elba, edged by searing-blue water and with views to sigh over.
Vino Hirata and Scala Dei are a short taxi ride from the Roppongi entertainment district.
"Vino" was poised to be a top contender in last year's Tour, but when five of his nine teammates were implicated in a doping scandal, his team found themselves without enough riders to compete.
Those endless vodka toasts were a way of seeing what you were really like: in vino veritas.
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South Australia is synonymous with good vino so why not sample the local drops at a hospitable wine region like McLaren Vale, 37 km from Adelaide, and the gateway to the easy-on-the-eye Fleurieu Peninsula.
It wasn't so long ago, in 2005, that cheap credit flowed like vino and venture capitalists and private equity firms had a clear path to riches--by selling shares in their portfolio companies on the open market.
But for the next five weeks, oenophiles can sip a little closer to home at the historic Claremont Hotel and Spa, just a 15km drive across the Bay Bridge, where the Berkeley Wine Festival is feting all things vino every Friday evening until 24 May.
The 2009 Vino De La Familia Blanca, made from 100% Arizona-grown Malvasia Bianca, a Mediterranean varietal of grape, is an unusual and delicious vintage.
Chris Polley(ph), the owner of Jungle Vino, says his wine bar and adjoining coffee house, Java Jungle, cater to a new group of residents that live in and around downtown.
And, the first 100 purchasers will get a free upgrade to a simply sybaritic suite with a bottle of wine, while the next 400 purchasers will receive the same room upgrade, sans vino.
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