Keep your ticker ticking It's easy to knock back several glasses of wine when you're sitting around the holiday table for long stretches of time, especially if you tell yourself that wine is good for your heart.
In all the best Pinot Gris, whether produced as an Alsatian dessert wine or a crisp table wine from the foothills of the Italian Alps, the grape itself has the mojo to be the star.
Select your meal from the huge variety of seafood inside the market, grab a bottle of wine and an outdoor table and prepare to guard your chips.
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Instead of making white wine out of it, Yankees are fermenting pinot meunier on the skins and making red table wine, as they do with merlot, cabernet and syrah.
The neatly set-out wine glasses tumble over onto the trestle table as the knot of camera crews and photographers seethe around the woman who would be President of France, Segolene Royal.
One of the Douro Boys, a group of winemakers that drove this change, welcomes visitors for table wine tastings at Quinta do Crasto.
It also boasts a suspended glass wine loft, an elevated chef's table with views of both the kitchen and Vegas, and an intimate bar.
User-friendly wine brands, including a couple of these, represented nine of the ten top-selling new table wines introduced last year, says Information Resources Inc.
Wine promoter Baudouin Havaux staged Cabernet tastings at a table hanging over the Formula One racetrack of the Belgian Grand Prix in 2007 to gin up publicity.
The house was filled with impromptu dinner parties, bridge games, storytelling sessions over the sticky kitchen table, on which there always sat a large bottle of red wine.
The word sommelier (pronounced some-el-YAY) is derived from the Vulgar Latin word for "beast of burden, " which may seem at odds with the image of a well-dressed man (or woman) proffering a wine list to a table of guests.
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To further mix things up, each grouping includes a wide number of wine options, and it is not unusual for the sommelier to offer two different people at the same table having the same dish two different wines.
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