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SPECIAL EDITION INTERNATIONAL trebicchieri MONTHLY NEWS FOR WINE PROFESSIONALS Message in a bottle #3Bicchieri2014 VINI D'ITALIA PAIRINGS: NEW OPENING SPECIAL ROADSHOW 2014 ON ITS WAY AGLIO, OLIO TRE BICCHIERI EXTRA PEPERONCINO 2014 pag.2 pag.3 pag.4 pag.6 pag.16 1 NEWS Vini d´Italia 2014 coming soon THIS YEAR, THERE ARE 415 TRE sustainability. To this end, we list 84 Bicchieri winners. Among these, Green Tre Bicchieri, that is, wines INI D’ITALIA IS THE more than a quarter, 107 to be that are produced by means of product of a unique group precise, are wines that you can buy organic or biodynamic viticulture. Veffort. It embodies the in Italian wine shops for less than Starting this year, we have included story of a year of tasting, travel, 15 euros. This is a demonstration relevant certification as a condition, visits. This year over sixty experts of one of the most crucial aspects a form of transparency for the have managed to taste 45,000 of the country’s production: Italian consumer. wines, reviewing 20,000 labels from wine is markedly well-priced for the over 2,300 wineries. quality it provides. This advantage AND FINALLY, HERE’S THE REGIONAL has thrust Italian wine into the accounting of Tre Bicchieri wines: TASTING, RE-TASTING, FINAL PANEL international scene and we have Piedmont leads as usual with 77 tastings, and here we are, bringing been proud to be able to promote winners, followed by Tuscany you those wines that won over and communicate this excellence with 72. Then, Veneto with 36, our hearts and palates. It has by means of over 30 annual grand Alto Adige with 27, Friuli with always followed the same method: tastings organized around the 24, Lombardy 23, Campania 20, rigorously blind tastings, evaluations globe. followed by Sicily with 19 and made not by an individual but Marche 18. Puglia and Sardegna always by a panel, and finally, the AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS YEAR follow with 13, Abruzzo with 12, classic rating by glasses, from one the guide will also be translated Emilia Romagna, Trentino and to three. This method of judgment into Japanese, joining the English, Umbria with 11, Liguria with 7, is based on an objective approach, German and Chinese editions. The Valle d’Aosta 6. Finally Lazio with without prejudices or rules applied other great theme that shapes the 5, Basilicata 4 and Calabria with 4 to wine. pages of Vini d´Italia 2014 is that of winners. Molise closes the list with only one Tre Bicchieri wine. The advanced WE MOVE PRECIOUS COMMODITIES: YOURS. logistic solution for Wines & Spirits www.ggori.com Aglio, olio, peperoncino and Sauvignon Blanc by Giulia Sampognaro NE OF THE EASIEST RECIPES IN THE ITALIAN our midnight spaghetti feast, we stuck to the classics: COOKBOOK, REQUIRING SIMPLE BUT TOP- durum wheat pasta, extra-virgin oil from Lake Garda OQUALITY INGREDIENTS. THE WINE TO SERVE made from pitless Leccino olives by Comincioli, fresh WITH IT? NOT AT ALL ObvIOUS... peppers without seeds and chopped garlic. A NATIONALLY POPULAR DISH, SPAGHETTI, GARLIC, OLIVE A CLASSIC FOR THE SPAGHETTI oil and hot red peppers or peperoncino, a valid THE MAGNIFICENT FOUR: YOU COULD WRITE A TREATISE comfort food for all ages, and famously, at any about each, and together they are a major power time of day. We know how to prepare it with our in Italian cuisine, so much so that after spaghetti, eyes closed, but the choices for each ingredient are tomato and basil, they can be considered a national infinite: spaghetti, vermicelli or linguine? The garlic dish. For each there’s a wide choice, both in terms of question: mashed, grated, chopped, with or without ingredients and in terms of cooking methods. To say the central rib? And then there’s the peperoncino, nothing of the variations: anchovies, parsley, grated chili pepper: fresh, dry, with or without seeds, Italian breadcrumbs, grated pecorino cheese, but...do these or maybe Thai? How much and which olive oil? For extras add anything? THE OUTSIDER, COLLIO SAUVIGNON VALDObbIADENE PROSECCO BIRRA PERUGIA BLOODY MARY Cantina Produttori SUPERIORE EXTRA DRY Cormons GIUSTINO B. 2011 A high-fermentation Vodka, tomato juice, Ruggeri Golden Ale, Worcestershire sauce, A delicate nose, not unpasteurized and Tabasco, celery and salt. focused on intensity A monovarietal glera unfiltered. A perfect A classic pre-dinner and freshness but on that expresses all its English-style beer, cocktail created by a tertiary and spicy characteristics: moss, immensely drinkable, barman in Harry’s Bar in notes from which peach, citrus fruit and a with very fresh citrus Paris, inspired by the life of Mediterranean scrub, light mineral tone that fruit aroma and a rich, the ruthless Mary Tudor. rosemary and bitter almond carries the whole forward. inviting flavor. Pairing: 8.5 emerge. Fresh and pleasant Fresh, soft and flavorful Pairing: 8 Tomato becomes the star of on the palate. palate. The bitterness of the beer the combination, blending Pairing: 8.5 Pairing: 8+ goes well with the sweetness perfectly with the pasta, Almond flowers emerges The sugar residue here is of the pasta, leaving the both in taste and more than bitter almond perfect: the extra dry mouth clean and ready. The consistency: the spices in from the combination of softens everything, bringing malt shows up perfectly on the dish and those in the drink and dish; fresh notes out the taste of the wheat. the palate, toasty flavor glass go well together. stand out, with spicy, Along with the bubbles, it first, then bitter, and finally, aromatic hints of chives. eliminates the sensation of spiciness. garlic, leaving a very pleasant spiciness in the PAIRING 3 mouth. Up for some change? A new place and a new concept. Just opened in Sardinia, in Cagliari, CUCINA.eat is a multifunctional space designed for meeting, tasting, shopping, reading and savoring. 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