States making agave spirits outside the appellations would be "out of luck," said Mr. Suro-Piñera, who fears small, disenfranchised distillers will give up their trade, leading to a loss for Mexican heritage.
Quincy is an appellation that nearly died out in the 1960's and 70's but has been growing and improving since then, thanks to the big demand for white sauvignon wines in Paris and across northern Europe.
Château Simone's 2008 rosé, from the tiny Provençal appellation of Palette, was in our tasting, and it stood out for its richness, fruitiness and complexity, yet it was bone dry and balanced as well.
Class in Burgundy A class at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., on Jan . 11at 6 p.m., will sort out the appellations in the Burgundy wine region.
Cour-Cheverny is a tiny appellation that has been carved out to showcase Romorantin.
At the age of 16, in order to avoid being put into yet another institution, she married a hearty chap called Jim Dougherty, whom she addressed as Daddy – an appellation this fatherless daughter tried out on many of the men in her life, whether her heart belonged to them or not.
In his brusque way, he rejects the appellation of hero.
Some things transcend their humble appellations: "chicken and dumplings" turns out to be airy spinach-and-ricotta malfatti and terrifically moist poultry.
(Ages 8 and up) Had the gloom-haunted Edward Gorey found a way to have a love child with Dorothy Parker, their issue might well have been Lemony Snicket, the pseudonymous author of a multivolume family chronicle brought out under the genteel appellation "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
In this sense, a journey in search of vinicultural aesthetics in Washington is like touring the Umbrian countryside in Italy, or an out-of-the-way appellation in France.
