Most recipes call for steaming mussels in a mix of wine and aromatics.
The word translates literally as "spritzer", or a mix of wine and water, usually white but sometimes one of Hungary's increasingly excellent rosés.
Nakagawa claims that he wasn't intoxicated, just the victim of a bad mix of wine and cold medicine on top of a few drinks on the plane.
As a result, online California wine sellers like the Viansa Winery (www.viansa.com) in Sonoma, for instance, mark items like the Vino e Formaggio gift basket, which contains a mix of wine and local Sonoma cheeses ($140, or $126 for the company's wine club members) with a warning: "Cannot Deliver to NY".
It also helps that Harris co-developed the menu, a whip-smart mix of wine-bar staples (brilliant charcuterie, immaculate cheese), old Sportsman favourites and the odd slam-dunk of a showstopper (halibut braised in oxidised 1998 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru); and that the wine list makes aficionados go all gooey-eyed.
The inaugural sale, with its mix of wine, watches, art and jewellery, was modest in size and, certainly for the art, of indifferent quality.
As described previously, a hypothetical polymeal consisting of a mix of wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruits, vegetables, garlic, and almonds has been proposed to reduce CVD (Franco et al 2004).
A hypothetical polymeal (a mix of wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruits, vegetables, garlic, and almonds) has been proposed to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 75% and increase life expectancy by 5 years (Franco et al 2004).
Like the big houses, grower-producers make a mix of nonvintage wines (a blend of wine from two or more vintages), single vintages and prestige cuvées, or special blends.
