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Simply the Best!

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Simply the Best!

I am still digesting last weekend’s Symposium with the Masters of Wine in Florence… It’s an event I may not stop talking about for some time to come…

Does anyone know what these are used for?

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It didn’t take yours truly long to figure it out, but can I say something? I need practice!! I’m OK at the tasting part…

It is the spitting that has got me stumped! There was some masterful spitting going on. If you don’t believe me, take a look.

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True to its purpose, the Symposium was a place to gather, to drink together, to get to know, to savour, to taste… The luncheon sponsored by the Kendall Jackson Winery was indeed a treat — all those California wines had come a long way, baby!

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The luncheon hosted by the Austrian Wine Board also didn’t disappoint. Here are some Italian colleagues enjoying the Austrian vintage; it is truly a Culture of Wine!

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Alessandro Torcoli (Civiltà del Bere), Chiara Lungarotti and Marcello Lunelli of Ferrari (the wine, not the car!!) enjoy a glass of Austrian wine.

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Suzanne Branciforte

has one foot firmly planted on either continent
is New York born and Harvard educated
is Italian and American and Italian-American
has resided on the Italian Riviera for the past 15 years
has a Masters degree and a Ph.D. from UCLA
is a writer, translator and interpreter
interpreted for the President of the Bundesbank and Nobel Prize winning economists and authors
is the author of the international best-selling textbook Parliamo italiano!
has lived extensively in California, France and Italy
knows that good wine doesn’t grow in ugly places
is convinced that living is your greatest work of art

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