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Cover Story
SPECIAL REPORT: The Best of Italy Italy offers an abundance of pleasures. In this special issue we lead you to 10 of its path-breaking vintners and explore the richly flavored reds of Tuscany. For romance and grandeur, we take you to the magnificent setting of Lake Como, near Milan. Or if you prefer to stay closer to home, we bring the Italian restaurant experience to you with a delicious and easy wine-and-pasta menu. Viva Italia!
Travel
Italian Great Lake The magnificent shores of northern Italy's Lake Como are enjoying a renaissance of even better living, wining and dining
- WineSpectator.com Get information on hotels, restaurants and wineries in major wine regions around the world with WineSpectator.com's Dining & Travel section.
Tasting Reports
Tuscany Strikes Twice With seemingly every Tuscan area making outstanding bottlings, the 2006 and 2007 vintages offer a bounty of exciting wines
- WineSpectator.com: An alphabetical chart of all wines tasted for this report is available.
- WineSpectator.com BONUS VIDEO: Learn more about Tuscan and other Italian wines with James Suckling and other Wine Spectator staff, who have interviewed famous vintners such as the Antinori family, visited Tuscan estates during harvest and filmed their tastings of everything from Italian whites to Barolos and Amarones.
Wine
Italian Wineries to Watch A look at 10 producers who are making their marks in a deep-rooted wine culture
Menu
Bringing Italy to L.A. Il Grano restaurant's Salvatore Marino serves up some pasta and wine at his California home
Features
People
The Santa Barbara Edge Three grapegrowers at the frontier of California vineyard expansion help to define a region
Terroir and Chemistry Jeremy and Diana Seysses of Domaine Dujac bring together elements of the Old World and the New in Burgundy
Departments
This Issue
This Issue Marvin R. Shanken
Upfront
Foster's and Constellation sell off Aussie wineries; harvest off to an early start in California; grape seeds may combat Alzheimer's; founder out at Merus, popular Napa producer; Indiana reverts to face-to-face wine sales; GrapeVine
- WineSpectator.com Keep up with breaking news as well as the people, places and happenings that wine lovers are talking about.
In-Depth
In Depth 2007 Burgundy preview
- WineSpectator.com Bruce Sanderson blogged about his June visits to prominent Burgundy domaines; website members can read all his cellar notes on the young 2007 reds and whites.
Tastes
Italian olive oil; heat-and-eat meat; new and improved Bourbon; Santa Rosa Hot Spot: Rosso; the kindest cut
- WineSpectator.com Learn more about olive oils, and other oils made from fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. Website members can look them up in our Food Encyclopedia.
Savvy Shopper
The Savvy Shopper Exciting reds from southern France and Portugal
Columns
James Laube Elitist pricing
- WineSpectator.com In recent blog posts, James Laube discusses why the shakeup at Merus in Napa was inevitable, tours vineyards in Napa and Sonoma to see the uneven ripening of 2008, and tastes a cross-section of Trefethen wines from multiple vintages to see how they have evolved in style.
Matt Kramer Conservative on wine
Letters
Collecting
A collector draws inspiration for his cellar from a familiar silhouette; top-scoring Bordeaux can be found for less than $100; auction brings in $800k
- WineSpectator.com: Website members can search our complete Auction Price Database, which tracks prices and performance for more than 12,000 collectible and cellar-worthy wines recently sold at commercial auctions. Also available are analyses of the latest auction results and a calendar of upcoming auctions.
The Buying Guide
View a list of all tasting notes from this issue. Or for more than 203,000 tasting notes, use WineSpectator.com's Wine Ratings Search, where you can sort by region, variety, vintage, price, score and tasting date.
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WINE SPECTATOR MOBILE: Coming Soon: A version of WineSpectator.com optimized for Blackberries, iPhones, Palms and other Internet-enabled devices. Trying to pick out a wine at a retailer or restaurant? Find out how it scored using our Wine Ratings Search to access our complete database of more than 200,000 reviews. Or check our vintage charts to determine the best years for the world's major wine regions. Need to consult your saved shopping list or check how many bottles of a special wine are left in your cellar? View your Personal Wine List, complete with your cellar details. HARVEST BLOGS: We've got a team of winemakers from California, Oregon, Washington, France and Italy reporting from the field about the quality of their 2008 crops and answering your questions about harvest. |
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CALIFORNIA WINE EXPERIENCE: Coming Soon: Can't join us for this year's great lineup of tastings and seminars? Our full event coverage will bring the world's best winemakers and chefs to you with photos, articles and videos. CELEBRATE OUR 200,000TH WINE RATING: WineSpectator.com has reached a milestone: 200,000 wine ratings in our online database! To celebrate this achievement, we're giving all visitors free access to our site from Sept. 24 through Oct. 1. Check out our entire ratings database, editors' blogs and more. TOP 100 COUNTDOWN: Coming Soon: On Nov. 10, we'll begin unveiling the Top 10 wines of 2008, followed by the complete Top 100 list. The names of the wines will be available to all our readers, but you must be a member to get the tasting notes. Visit our site for a full schedule of the countdown and don't miss out on this exciting event. VIDEOS: We now have hundreds of free videos on our site. Check out some of the latest:
HALLOWEEN: Coming Soon: Trick or treat! Celebrate the holiday the adult way, with sweet wines and sophisticated desserts. |
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