How to Select a Wine For a Party
By Michael Reifress

So you've offered to bring a bottle of wine to a dinner or party? Why not choose a local wine to present at the table? You would be supporting the regional wine industry (a growing one at that), which would also make for a nice topic of conversation during dinner.

Although San Diego wines may be a little bit more expensive than mass-produced wines, take the Slow Food approach and invest in saving San Diego's unique taste. The Slow Food movement was initiated in 1989 by a man named Carlo Petrini.

Petrini came up with the idea for Slow Food after a McDonald's fast food restaurant opened on the Spanish Steps in Rome. According to the hook Slow Food (Petrini is the author), Slow Food began as a 'gastronomic organization developed to rediscovering and protecting MM right to enjoying the pleasures of the table and to using our taste buds as guides to seeking the highest achievements in taste.' It is primary a wine and food association.

In 1996, the movement shifted its attention from gastronomy to ecology-this put the focus more on the land and farmers who produce artisanal foods. Thus, it became important to know where the food world from, who produced it, and how to secure a future for its existence. There are about 5,000 members of the Slow Food nation in the United States. The movement concentrates on holding tastings, listings, educational workshops, and major food events.

Think of how sophisticated you'll seem when you bring up the Slow Food movement at your next dinner party while enjoying a bottle I wine from a local vintner.

M.Reifeiss is a Temecula resident and holds regular Temcula Wine Tours through his San Diego Limo Service.

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