Enoteca

Historically, an enoteca was a wine library, a place where bottles of wine were displayed. Today, the word enoteca is also used to indicate a wine bar where a curated collection of wines is available for tasting. The most famous enoteca in Italy is the Enoteca Italiana in Siena which was once a de Medici fortress.

Guinness was originally known for light colored ales, not dark stout.

Answer: True.

Brewer Arthur Guinness began making light-colored ales at his brewery when he first set up shop in Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1750s. However, so much porter and stout (a stronger, or "stouter" version of the beer that was popular with street and river porters) were being shipped from London to Ireland, that Guinness decided to create his own version of the style. In 1821, precise instructions for brewing the darker beer were recorded—the beginning of today's Guinness Original and Guinness Extra Stout.

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.”

—M. F. K. Fisher
American writer (1908 ~ 1992) whose many books on food and wine are considered seminal

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