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(Jim Painter). ...Cecilia's teaching
the food class.
(female speaker). Cecilia, how has your
experience been working with the students
and actually coming here to the United States,
and to Charleston, to be here?
(Cecilia Ricci). Well, it's a very good
goal for me because it's really interesting
to see the differences between
these two different cultures.
I'm used to teaching American students in Florence,
but it's a really great experience to be here
and teach directly at the American students.
(female speaker). Do you normally work
with culinary students?
(Cecilia). Yes, usually I work with
culinary students in Florence because I'm working
for the Culinary Institute of Apicius in Florence.
(female speaker). Well you do bring an expertise
that not many people feel comfortable with.
It's something that wine is, wine and food,
and merging the two together, serving them,
is something that is so much of interest.
What do we have here this morning first of all?
(Painter). We have a variety
of Italian wines and we brought one wine
for you to taste.
We have a couple of different kinds
of ways of looking at wine.
One, we are going to talk about how
do you know a good wine from a bad wine.
And in Italy you have a band on here.
(female speaker). How does that work?
(Cecilia). Well, the band on there,
it's called a label, that it's covered by law in Italy,
and it's called DOCG.
It means that one kind of wine is protected by the government
by an important law and it means that it's produced
in a specific area with some specific characteristic
of everything, you know, with the soil of the region,
and so, in this sense, the product can follow
in a specific and guaranteed production.
(Painter). So you can know
what you're getting.
Tell them, DOCG, what it is.
(Cecilia). Okay, it does mean D
is for Denomination, O is for Origin
and G for Guarantee.
So in Italian it means that of di origine controllata.
(female speaker). So it's control basically.
(Cecilia). Right, basically, yes.
(female speaker). So there are different regions
in the area--I'm not sure if we've got
that map--Matt, did we get that?
We did, we do have a map.
So let's go ahead and show that.
We're showing some different regions of Italy.
What are the different regions known for, as far as wine?
Are we able to...
(Painter). We can, if they can look
at the top.
Northern Italy has its own specific kinds of wines
from Venice on one side to Piemonte on the other.
And then if you come down, you come through Tuscany
in central Italy and Tuscany is where
the Culinary Institute is, where she is in Florence.
And then you have complete different wines when you reach
the south and end up in Sicily and over in Sardinia.
(female speaker). Okay, lot's of different tastes.
Well, let's go ahead and taste this one that you brought here.
And what are we looking for in a good wine?
(Cecilia). Well, above all, you have
to consider, first of all you have to look at the color.
So you have just to do an analysis on the color.
So here, for example, we have a good wine
with a light yellow color.
And then, going through the other aspects,
you have to taste it which is the body of the wine.
You go through the smell.
(female speaker). And what is this
wine specifically?
(Cecilia). This wine is specifically
from the north of Italy, so it comes from Asti.
The name of the city is Asti.
The name of the wine is Moscato.
So Moscato wine is served [unclear audio] for desserts.
So, in this sense, it's a good combination for at the end
of a lunch or dinner to be served with desserts.
(Painter). It's a good thing
before a breakfast, too.
(female speaker). Oh, well,
and that's what we're about to do here.
Alright, there's so much here.
Let's go ahead and taste this.
(Cecilia). Okay.
(female speaker). It is very sweet.
(Cecilia). It is really good, really sweet.
It's not so strong, you can taste by the tongue,
and it's not too sparkly.
(female speaker). Sure.
Okay, we do have to get into weather at this point, but we
want to put this information--and thank you
both for coming in.
(Cecilia). Yes.
(female speaker). And we'll put this up
on our website, the information on how
to try the different kinds of wine, the color, and the taste
and all of those things.
Thank you so much both for being here.
(Cecilia). It was our pleasure.
(female speaker). We've got to get
to weather now, so we'll check back with Robert.