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VINI D’ITALIA
NEWS FROM ITALY
U.S Coast Guard strengthens trans-Atlantic ties with Italy
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The patience and faith come when the barrel is unsealed, the hand of nature is revealed, and the winemaker is hopefully rewarded.
Not all producers are willing to share their wine with heaven. They use larger casks, moderate the attic temperatures, and top off the barrels – replacing the smaller percentages of evaporation with fresh juice. This is more modern Vin Santo, fruitier but not as rich and complex.
Vin Santo is made from white grapes all around Italy, notably in Emilia-Romagna, Trentino, Umbria and Marche. The prime region is Tuscany, and the beating heart is
the Chianti zone, specifically Vin Santo del Chianti, Vin Santo del Chianti Classico, and Vin Santo de Montepulciano, the best of
over a dozen DOC areas, each with its own regulations. The most commonly used grapes are Trebbiano and Malvasia, but Canaiolo Bianco, Vermentino, Chardonnay and Pinot Bianco are allowed. Supposedly, the higher the amount of Malvasia the better the wine, though you’d be hard pressed to find that info on a label.
Though thought of as a dessert wine, there are styles of Vin Santo differentiated by alcohol level and degree of sweetness. Dolce, or sweet versions, can have enough grams of sugar to send your cholesterol through the
roof; Amabile are not as sweet; Abboccato are a balance of sweet and mildly dry; Secco can be bone dry and have the feel of sherry. There is also Vin Santo Liquoroso, fortified with grape spirits during fermentation. Occhio di Pernice, the Eye of the Partridge, is a light, refreshing pale rose’ made from 50% or more Sangiovese and a mix of whatever locally prescribed red and white grapes are on hand.
A well-made Vin Santo is one of the best “sweet” wines you can have. In Tuscany it’s considered a mark of fine hospitality to serve it after dinner with cantucci, almond cookies, or perhaps an aged cheese, and either fresh melons, berries or dried fruit. Sipping it on its own is a way to savor a range of aromas and flavors of peach, apricot, and orange as well as nuts, raisins, figs, cinnamon, and dates in a spectrum of colors from golden and amber to a malt-like brown.
The kicker (isn’t it always?) is the price. Even a half-bottle can run from $35-$80, and a full 750 ml bottle might set you back $60-$100 or more. As I cautioned with Amarone, beware of lower priced bottles, you truly do get what you paid for. Exorbitant? Maybe. But with the effort and time that
goes into making Vin Santo and the limited quantities available, that’s to be expected. It’s hard to put a price on greatness. IAH
Representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard with members of the Greater Roxborough Lodge of the Sons and Daughters of Italy following a presentation to the Lodge about the Italian and U.S. Coast Guards’ mutual maritime maneuvers.
PAGINA ITALIANA
NAPLES, Italy – Recently the Legend-class national security cutter USCGC Hamilton (WMSL) 753) conducted operations in the Mediterranean Sea with the Italian Coast Guard and Italian Navy.
The operations were designed to increase interoperability as part of a regional effort to bolster maritime partnership with NATO allies.
“Working with the Italian Coast Guard and Italian Navy strengthens our maritime partnership and reinforces our shared values,” said Capt. Timothy Cronin, commanding officer of the USCGC Hamilton. “Our engagements with Italy during these maneuvers bring unity of effort in the maritime domain through interoperable capabilities and combined operations.”
More than half of regional economic activity relies on safe and lawful use of maritime security essential to economic development and sustainment. To further this objective, Hamilton participated in the search and rescue with the Italian Coast Guard in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
“Today, this meeting has represented an important and useful opportunity to improve our already strong relationship between the Italian and U.S. Coast Guard,” said Admiral Antonio Basile, Vice Commandant of the Italian Coast Guard.
Afterward, Hamilton transitioned to the Ionian Sea conducting cross deck flight operations with Italian Navy to practice daylight landing at sea. Exercises like these strengthen alliance interoperability, theater security and capacity-building efforts.
These operations follow a logistics visit to Naples, where crews met with Italian Coast Guard leadership to further enhance the U.S. and Italian military relationship.
“It was a pleasure to work alongside one
of the strongest allies and share best practices to improve safety at sea,” said Petty Officer 1st class Thomas Hatfield. “We all learned
a lot from each other and we welcome the opportunity to do it again in the future.”
The U.S. Coast Guard brings unique capabilities thanks to a wide suite
of specialized maritime capabilities, competencies and authorities. Their mission set capabilities include search and rescue operations, counter drug enforcement, port, waterway and coastal security, and living marine preservation. The service’s multi- mission mandate as a law enforcement agency, regulatory agency, and a branch of the military, gives the Coast Guard a unique and unparalleled opportunity.
“Our organizations share several competencies in the strategic environment that are important in both the national and international realm. These include: search and rescue operations, marine environment protection, and control of the sea,” Basile said. “Soon we will usher in a new basis for our strong maritime bond, a memorandum of understanding that will highlight the mutual willingness to cooperate and to improve our expertise, through development of combined operations and interoperable capabilities.”
The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting a routine deployment in U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations, working alongside allies, building maritime domain awareness and sharing best practices with partner nation navies and coast guards.
Hamilton is the fourth Legend-class national security cutter and is the fifth named for the father of the U.S. Coast Guard – Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury and advocate for the creation of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. IAH
CRONACA INTERNAZIONALE
Doppio cognome ai figli, cosa cambia e da quando
ANSA
ROMA – La Corte costituzionale ha dichiarato l’illegittimità dell’automatica attribuzione del cognome paterno ai figli.
Più precisamente, la Corte si è pronunciata sulla norma che non consente ai genitori,
di comune accordo, di attribuire al figlio il solo cognome della madre e su quella che, in mancanza di accordo, impone il solo cognome del padre, anziché quello di entrambi i genitori.
Si tratta di un risultato storico al quale Vox-Diritti ha contribuito, presentando un’opinione, insieme all’associazione Luca Coscioni, in qualità di amici curaie a sostegno della fondatezza della questione.
La sentenza, che ancora deve essere pubblicata, rappresenta il traguardo di un lungo percorso giurisprudenziale, che ha visto una condanna da parte della Corte Europea dei diritti dell’Uomo (caso Cusan Fazzo c. Italia, 2014) e tre pronunce della
Corte costituzionale (da ultimo sentenza n. 286 del 2016). Nell’attesa delle motivazioni della sentenza, il comunicato, pubblicato sul sito della Corte costituzionale, informa che l’automatica attribuzione del padre viola
gli articoli 2, 3 e 117, primo comma, della Costituzione, quest’ultimo in relazione agli articoli 8 e 14 della Convenzione europea
dei diritti dell’uomo. Infatti, «nel solco del principio di eguaglianza e nell’interesse
del figlio, entrambi i genitori devono poter condividere la scelta sul suo cognome, che costituisce elemento fondamentale dell’identità personale».
Dunque, la regola non sarà più quella dell’attribuzione del cognome paterno, ma
ai figli verrà attribuito automaticamente il cognome di entrambi i genitori. Salvo che essi decidano di comune accordo di attribuire solo un cognome, che potrà essere quello paterno o quello materno. Un cambiamento epocale nel cammino verso l’effettiva parità di genere.