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Wine of the Week: An armchair visit to Napa’s Stags Leap wine district

Stag’s Leap District in Napa Valley is California’s most distinguished. Dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon, it contains America’s most famous wineries. The names literally roll off the tongues of wine lovers around the world: Stag’s Leap. Clos du Val, Shafer, among others.
Its reputation was affirmed at the landmark Judgment of Paris in 1976 and has grown in stature ever since. At that competition, two up-start California wine producers triumphed over renowned bottlings from Bordeaux and Burgundy in a blind tasting judged by France’s foremost wine experts.

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Wine of the Week-Gran Passione Rosso IGT- Veneto, Italy-$12.99

Italy’s Veneto region is one of its most dazzling and romantic. Shakespeare’s tragic romance Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona. Venice and its hallowed lagoons is the repository of its art world. Its pristine and majestic mountains in north-eastern Italy, bordering Austria, is a UNESCO world heritage site, encompassing the Dolomite National Park, the Gardaland theme park, the spas of Abano Terme and the memorial sites of World War One.

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