Still, he adds, "the overall market has grown very well the past four years, " with demand for Italian wines up 30% in 2005.
In his sparse spare time, he enjoys rebuilding older American muscle cars and motorcycles, collecting antiquarian books, epicurean cooking, and has passion for cellaring American and Italian wines.
As for Italian wines, I'll be obliged to drink fewer from the north, since I paid more attention to regions like Piedmont and Friuli and Alto Adige than I did to, say, Campania, Abruzzi and Puglia in the south.
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Most of the winery's solely Texas-sourced grapes are turned into Italian-style wines like Dolcetto and Vermentino.
He also promotes his Lasorda label of Italian-made wines, with appearances at local restaurants and shops.
First, the cheaper dollar increases the relative price of Japanese cars, French wines and Italian holidays.
Even more important is the fact that these wines hail from the cool Northern Italian climes of Fruili, which runs along the Alps near the Austrian border.
But the aggressive pricing at the top end may have masked a marketing issue in the mainstream U.S. market: After all, Australian wines just recently surpassed French wines as America's favorite import after Italian (California wine dominates overall, with 67% of the market).
With the profits from the sale of the Turkish goods, Mazzei opened a shop specializing in wines, silks, olive oils, anchovies, parmesan cheese and other Italian products that were almost impossible to buy in London.
It features a seven-course degustation menu matched with champagne, cocktails and wines -- topped off with a glass of 25-year-old Zacapa rum, Italian chocolate and Cuban cigars.
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