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• Italian Flavor Forum XII
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – June 4, 2010
  On May 27, 2010, the Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco, California, located inside the Fort Mason Center, at 99 Marina Boulevard, hosted the 12th Italian Flavor Forum.
  
  The invitation only wine and specialty food tasting event dedicated to professional buyers, trade journalists and San Francisco Bay Area opinion leaders, is organized annually by WineCountry.IT, LLC. The goal of the trade show is to promote select quality Italian wines and food items produced by small and medium estates.
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• Italian Flavor Forum XI
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – June 29, 2009
  In addition to tasting 99 quality and boutique Italian wines and 11 distilled spirits, the invited guests had the opportunity to taste select Italian food products, such as extra virgin olive oil, balsamic condiments, and balsamic vinegar from Modena.
  
  The Importer Desk, where showcases quality Italian wines and foods, such as extra virgin olive oil, condiment, balsamic seasoning and sauces which are not yet imported in the US and whose producers are seeking importers and/or distributors for the North American market, is one of the new features.
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• Italian Flavor Forum X
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – November 20, 2008
  On November 12, 2008, at San Francisco's Golden Gate Yacht Club, the tenth Italian Flavor Forum, dedicated in particular to presenting the Centellino Areadivino, the amazing top-of-the-bottle aerator which oxygenates the wine naturally and in real time, officially to the local press. The Centellino, designed and produced in Italy by Table Top and imported to the US by WineCountry.IT L.L.C., opens the aroma and flavor of a wine while it pours into the glass, obtaining results comparable to letting the wine breathe for a couple of hours in a regular decanter.
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• Italian Flavor Forum IX
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – May 20, 2008
  The staff of WineCountry.IT had the opportunity to get to know the wine buyers and distributors who visited the show better. In addition, the event was honored by the visit of the new Italian Consul General, Fabrizio Marcelli, who recently took office and is responsible for the West Coast consular jurisdiction, which includes an area many times the size of Italy, expanding from California to Alaska, Washington state, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii.
  
  We had a long chat about the current state of the import business, which has been hit badly by the drop in value of the dollar, making everything imported more expensive, at a time when the US economy is in dire straits.
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• Italian Flavor Forum VIII
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – November 15, 2007
  Our eighth invitation-only trade show organized in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Italian Flavor Forum VIII, took place on November 14, 2007 at the Museo ItaloAmericano (Italian American Museum), located in the Landmark Building C of Fort Mason, in the heart of the cool San Francisco Marina district.
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• Italian Flavor Forum VII
  Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – May 24, 2007
  Our seventh invitation-only trade show organized in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Italian Flavor Forum VII, took place on May 21, 2007 at the Museo ItaloAmericano (Italian American Museum), located in the Landmark Building C of Fort Mason, in the heart of the cool San Francisco Marina district. We were blessed with gorgeous weather. The warm, sunny day, cooled by a pleasant breeze made the day for sailboat buffs and wind surfers who took advantage of it in the water of the bay.
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• Italian Flavor Forum VI
  Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – November 24, 2006
  The Italian Flavor Forum VI, or our sixth invitation-only trade show organized in the San Francisco Bay Area, took place on November 21, 2006 at the Golden Gate Yacht Club, located at the end of the pier at One Yacht Road, in the heart of the Marina district. The weather was gorgeous and it was a pleasure looking out the windows at the bay, with the rock of Alcatraz to the right and the glowing orange structure of the majestic Golden Gate Bridge to the left. Actually, it was so hot through the glass windows that poor Lionello Rosso, owner of Poderi Rosso and producer of the excellent Barberas d'Asti DOC, as well as of the gorgeous Barbera and Cabernet Sauvignon Monferrato Doc Infinito (Endless), had to ask for some kind of shading, as his back was to the west in the bright sunny afternoon.
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• Italian Flavor Forum V
  Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – June 29, 2006
  For the Italian Flavor Forum V we returned to one of our favorite locations by the San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Yacht Club, located at the end of the pier at One Yacht Road, in the heart of the Marina district.
  
  We enjoy the place so much, and the comments from our guests were so positive that we have already reserved the Commodore room for the Italian Flavor Forum VI, to be held on November 21, 2006.
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• Italia Gourmet Show / Italian Flavor Forum IV
  Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – March 20, 2006
  The premiere Italia Gourmet Show, which included the fourth Italian Flavor Forum, took place on March 14, and 15, 2006 at Fort Mason's Landmark Building 'A', in San Francisco, CA.
  
  Over 300 business professionals, including importers, distributors, brokers, restauranteurs, wine bars, resellers, wine collectors and trade writers visited the show tasting the about 100 products presented by 38 producers from ten Italian regions.
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• Italian Flavor Forum III
  Consulate General of Italy, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – January 13, 2006
  When I awoke the morning of Wednesday, January 11, 2006 the rain was drumming down on the roof of our wooden bungalow and I felt my heart sink. Nonetheless, always the positive thinker that I am, I told myself that that was just what the weather report had said: rain at night and into the morning, by noon turning to cloudy and, by 3:00 PM, the sun would actually show up. Looking out the window at the little stream running through our backyard, I saw the muddy water was running fast and was close to overflowing. I had to make an effort to keep my spirits up.
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• Italian Flavor Forum II
  Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – October 27, 2005
  Wednesday, October 19, 2005 was an unusual beautiful sunny day for this time of year in San Francisco. The sky was blue and there was no trace of the fog that had enveloped the Bay the day before and would the day after, to hide the fabolous view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz or the Marin Headlands across the bridge. We took it as a very good omen for the Italian Flavor Forum II.
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• Premiere of the Italian Flavor Forum
  Giorgio Ristorante Italiano, Greenbrae, CA
  Loris Scagliarini – May 30, 2005
  As people in the US celebrate the Memorial Day weekend and over 1,000 wineries all over the Italian boot open their doors to the masses for the Cantine Aperte (Open Wineries) event on Sunday, May 29, in Italy, we are compiling the results from the premiere of Italian Flavor Forum, held Wednesday, May 25th in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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