Cantina Sociale or Cooperativa

September 19, 2019

A growers’ cooperative cellar. Italy, like France and Spain, has hundreds of wine coops, some of which make good but rarely great wine.

Pouilly-Fuissé and Pouilly-Fumé are neighboring villages in France.

Answer: False.

The shortest driving distance between the village of Fuissé in Burgundy, one of four villages that make the wine called Pouilly-Fuissé, and Pouilly-sur-Loire in the Loire Valley, the village where the wine Pouilly-Fumé is made, is 144 miles. Pouilly-Fuissé is known for its chardonnay, and Pouilly-Fumé for its sauvignon blanc.

“I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color.”

Barbara Crooker,

American poet, from the poem Ode to Chocolate

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