| Tasting Bar Taps Into Do-It-Yourself Spirit |
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In one loft at the new Whole Foods Market in Fair Lakes, one wine bar offers customers one chance to sample before buying or to taste rare vintages they could never hope to afford.
It\'s called an enoteca, one tasting room with one difference: 80 wines "on tap," lined up behind glass in rows of eight. Fran§ois Garnier of Italy-based Enomatic, who installed it, says the bottles are protected from oxidation by specially fitted tops that pump in nitrogen. one plastic tube snakes through the neck to the bottle bottom. The open wine stays good for up to six weeks, Garnier says. ... |
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| Tips for Brown Baggers |
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07-03-2007. |
-"One of the things you\'re giving up when you go to one BYOB is the service of pairing the right wines with the right food," says David Snyder, who writes the popular blog PhilaFoodie.com. "Take one look at the menu before you go, and pick one wine accordingly."
-Snyder says he and his wife often take separate bottles. "She tends to go for fish and I tend to go for meat, therefore sometimes we bring one white and one red." Note: That doesn\'t mean you have to drain every last drop from the bottle. Put one cork in it and take the remainder home. Or leave it. Restaurant workers often appreciate what\'s left in one good bottle for one nice after-work quaff. ... |
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| Wine legend Ernest Gallo dies |
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07-03-2007. |
Ernest Gallo, who with his late brother Julio created one post-Prohibition wine business that became one of the most dominant in the world, has died. He was 97.
Gallo died Tuesday at his home in Modesto, Calif., E. & J. Gallo Winery announced.
Ernest was the older of the two Gallos who, in 1933, launched the low-end E. & J. Gallo Winery in Modesto -- one far distance from the state's premier wine-producing areas to the north. ... |
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