一看到Ferré i Catasús, 很难说这建筑是一座酒庄还是一个现代的艺术画廊。四周鲜花环绕，清亮的喷泉，加上排排盛开的葡萄藤，Ferré i Catasús酒庄坐落在西班牙Penedès地区的中心，离巴塞罗那大约一个小时的车程。

创始人Josep Maria Ferré i Catasús在10年以前将生意交给儿子Lluís打理，自此酒庄有了突飞猛进的发展。过去的10年中，Lluís重建了设在La Granada的公司总部 - Gustems农庄，在原有的基础上更具现代色彩， 安装了具有民族风格的设备，并再培训了酒窖团队。拥有大量客户的香醇的葡萄酒和气泡酒市场正在从欧洲向美国和亚洲扩展。

Ferré i Catasús有着强大的家族企业Grup Ferré （Ferré集团）作后盾，其生意深入到西班牙北部的餐饮和葡萄酒行业。公司最值得骄傲的产业是4 GATS， 一家位于巴塞罗那的饭店，许多艺术家如毕加索和高迪都经常在那里晚餐。

而Ferré i Catasús的葡萄酒是美味的，拥有年轻和芳香的特性，我认为她的魅力正如其独特的瓶签设计。具有时髦感的品牌，最低限度的图形使用，正是要传达出葡萄酒的本质。据酿酒师介绍，他们的设计概念就是”沉思，对称，和一种对甜味的禁用”。

不仅如此，在酒庄的顶楼还有更多的艺术创意，在色彩缤纷的壁画和油画的相互辉映中，享受着烤面包加番茄酱和腌制鸭配苹果泥等美食，餐后有核桃利口酒。 客人们可以随意在露台或是SuMoll餐厅的数个餐室中进餐，SuMoll餐厅是被誉为卡塔兰灵感的4 GATS的姐妹餐厅。

诗情画意般的环境，美味的葡萄酒，宾至如归的感觉确实值得每一位在Penedès做美酒之旅的旅行者流连。

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夏天结结实实的来了，我每日在30度+的高温毒日下的葡萄田里做农妇，汗如雨下思维停滞，所支撑下去的小乐趣就是同时满足“简单+清爽”这两个条件的一支干白和一首歌曲：冰箱里的Tariquet Classic和耳机里的丽江小众吟唱。

Tariquet酒庄位于波尔多南边的Armagnac产区，这个产区是和“轩尼诗”所在的Cognac干邑产区并列的法国两大白兰地产区。酒庄除了酿造AOC Bas Armagnc的白兰地外，还有大量质优价廉的Tariquet VDP干白系列风靡全法。

“Tariquet Classic”应该是其中最火的一个，大概是因为Armagnac的白兰地葡萄品种Ugni Blanc （70%）和Colombard （30%），在法国很少见到做成干白的吧；还有就是基本税后在5欧（约RMB 45元）左右的合适价格，也是在哪里都可以找到伊的重要原因。

这真的是一款可以解到我一天暑气的清爽干白，酸得清新，果香十足。从白兰地之乡来的白葡萄酒，果然丝毫没有柔弱气，饱满的酒体和Ugni Blanc带来的浓郁的柠檬、柑橘类香气，冰爽连成一线，淌入腹中，一下子就让一日曝晒的嚣张热气黯然了下去。像这样夏天应该一直在自己的冰箱门上放上一支的解暑小酒，就是不需要太复杂的层次或味道，只要像这样很明显的表现自己的小小特点就好了——简单着，快乐着。Simple life～Happy life～，不是么。

而我的农妇解暑音乐也是很简单的吉他的几个音，和着侃侃寂寞之至的嗓音，在那样的毒日头下听来，就像饮下这支冰箱里的Tariquet Classic的感觉，曲子的凄冷顺着耳畔入心，一下子就让烈日带来的浮躁之气消逝无影。这个从丽江流行出来的侃侃，是否在歌声中带进了些玉龙雪山的寒气？只是我每日间对着几百株葡萄俯身深情演唱她的《爱情啊》来抵御酷暑，不知这家酒庄今年的酒品，会不会也浸上一些丽江的凉气～——丽江么，实在是我首推的避暑圣地，七八月的盛夏，可以过得像秋天一样凉爽。

另外，我第一次喝到Tariquet Classic，是在波尔多海滩边的小餐馆。老板自家的新鲜生蚝，和这种简单典型的干白，简直是绝配——酒的酸度和香气压住了生蚝的海腥味和碘味，吃得我大快朵颐。其实这支酒很全能，冰饮做夏日开胃酒，，或者配凉菜配海鲜都应该不错。

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The first press visit to Sir Norman Foster's as-yet-unfinished Bodegas Portia was held yesterday in Ribera del Duero.

Journalists were were shown around the building by Foster+Partners architect Pedro Haberbosch and Antonio Ballaster, export director for Grupo Faustino, Portia's owner.

The winery's trefoil design has already been lauded by the Royal Academy in London, where a model of project was displayed last year as part of its 2009 Summer Exhibition. The drawings are reportedly set to feature at the same show this year.

The three points of the trefoil house the fermentation areas, and barrel and bottle cellars, while the ten 53,000-litre blending tanks sit in the centre.

'We asked ourselves what we can do that is really relevant to winemaking. The idea was to minimise the route the wine has to take,' Haberbosch said.

He added that the building should age in the same way as a wine.

'We felt that winemaking is time, and we wanted to represent this in the materials used. With few exceptions, it is entirely natural. We used Fair-faced concrete [which has a surface designed to weather], wood which was mostly oak but not highly polished so as to have texture and expressions just like a wine.'

Haberbosch said the roof, partly made of weathering (or Corten) steel, would also age over the years.

The project initially cost Rioja giant Bodegas Faustino €25m but Ballaster admitted this had increased since its inception.

While there is still no fixed date for the winery's official opening, which King Juan Carlos of Spain has agreed to attend, an inauguration in mid-September 2010 is being discussed.

When finished, the building, which covers 11,300m2 and has an annual production capacity of 1m litres, will also be a visitor centre and tourist destination.

Lord Foster's best-known projects include 30 St Mary Axe in the City of London (better known as The Gherkin), the Millau viaduct in France, the Hearst Tower in New York City and the Bejing Airport building.
 

Stanley A (Bill) Wagner, a major pioneering Finger Lakes vintner, died on 26 June aged 83.

Wagner founded Wagner Vineyards, on Seneca Lake, in 1979, three years after seminal state legislation provided incentives for creating New York's modern wine industry.

The estate's 250 acres contain every category of grape that traces New York's long wine history, starting with winter-hardy native fruit, transitioning through laboratory crossings and culminating in the so-called vinifera revolution.

The 50,000-case production comes from native grapes like Delaware and Niagara; hybrids like melody and Cayuga white, developed at nearby Cornell University; other crossings like Seyval Blanc, Vignoles and Vidal; and such vinifera as Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer, Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Pinot Noir.

Catering mainly to New York's upstate population, Bill Wagner produced more than 30 types of food-oriented wines, many with a populist appeal and sold at low prices, from 20 types of grape.

Sweet, off-dry and dry Rieslings have been standouts.

He designed a striking eight-sided wood-faced winery, which quickly became a tourist draw. So did its adjacent, spacious Ginny Lee Cafe, opened in 1983.

Both provide some of the region's most breathtaking long-distance views. In 1997, the property added a microbrewery, the Wagner Valley Brewing Company.