Even from a sunny, ripe vintage like 1998, what strikes you about this all-chardonnay wine is its pinpoint elegance, a refined texture and closely woven harmony that comes in part from its nine to 10 years of cellar age before it hits the market.

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Viscosity is all about texture, or mouthfeel in wine, high viscosity adds weight to the experience.

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And furthermore, he added, why was it that I had to talk about the wine at all?

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In all, the Gallo Wine Company shipped about 70 million cases of California wine last year.

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Wine at its very heart is all about memory.

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Within an hour though, we were rhapsodizing about politics, philosophy and the world, all over wine and caipirinhas.

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The movie was fiction, but the restaurant, Ostini, and his wine are all very real, and what I love about this combo is that Ostini is a chef and restaurateur who later became a wine maker with the specific purpose of creating food friendly wines.

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Just to see what all the fuss was about, we asked several wineries to send over their Petite Sirah wine and we assembled a tasting of over 20 bottles.

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Then drink in that Southern drawl beside the verdant 9, 500 square-foot villa that is Willow Creek Winery as you spend a day learning about the innerworkings of a vineyard from grape to wine and sip away all life's little stresses.

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What was unique about this is that all 2000 dinner guests spread throughout Mortons restaurants nationwide were experiencing the same food and wine pairing at the exact same time.

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