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ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERALD
VINI D’ITALIA
Everything ends with bread and wine — even the Last Supper
By Frank Cipparone
If you drink wine long enough and keep an open mind your opinions and understanding of it
will change. Mine certainly have, and I’d like to share some thoughts that poured from decades of uncorked bottles.
1. Don’t limit your options like people who only drink Cabernet or who wouldn’t be caught dead with Merlot. Be open to trying something new. Wine from Majorca or Slovenia? How about Bulgaria or Texas? Instead of why, ask why not. That also goes for grapes you’ve never heard of, even those with unusual names. As hockey great Wayne Gretzky observed, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
2. There are reasons why some wines carry astronomical price tags — low supply and high demand; prestige of the estate; snob appeal; cult status. I’ve always wondered about the correlation between quality, price
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