Blackman called the porter and had him remove everything but one bottle of brandy, and after that they would have a cocktail or two before dinner, or, on one of their walking trips, beer, or, in France and Italy, wine in moderation.

Besides beer and wine, Argentines frequently drink cider ( here again, the heritage comes from Spain and Italy, more precisely from Asturias and Campania ).

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

Wooden casks were a characteristic of Gaul and Northern Italy, and were not commonly used for wine in the Roman empire until after 300 CE ; whereas wine in 1st century Palestine was always stored in wineskins and jars ( amphorae ).

Helico had worked in Rome as a craftsman and then returned to his home north of the Alps with a dried fig, a grape, and some oil and wine, the desirability of which caused his countrymen to invade northern Italy.

The country is also well known for its influential and innovative business economic sector, an industrious and competitive agricultural sector ( Italy is the world's largest wine producer ), and for its creative and high-quality automobile, industrial, appliance and fashion design.

In Italy, a large portion of Merlot is planted in the Friuli wine region where it is made as a varietal or sometimes blended with Cabernet Sauvignon or Cabernet Franc.

In other parts of Italy, such as Tuscany, it is often blended with Sangiovese to give the wine a similar softening effect as the Bordeaux blends.

In Italy, the traditional flavoured wine Barolo Chinato is infused with quinine and local herbs and is served as a digestif.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

The earliest records of the distillation of alcohol are in Italy in the 13th century, where alcohol was distilled from wine.

Most Chardonnay plantings are located in the northern wine regions, though plantings can be found throughout Italy as far south as Sicily and Apulia.

In Italy, such a solution was used to chill wine and cakes.

In Modena, Italy, they are soaked in wine before roasting and serving ,) and are also traditionally eaten on Saint Simon's Day in Tuscany.

" Moscatell " ( Empordà ), is a sweet Catalan wine which have similar varieties in other countries as France, Italy, Portugal, Albania, Slovenia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, other regions of Spain, etc.

Throughout central Italy, Malvasia is often blended with Trebbiano to add flavor and texture to the wine.

While most varieties of Malvasia produce white wine, Malvasia Nera is a red wine variety that is used primarily as a blending grape in Italy, being valued for the dark color and aromatic qualities it can add to a wine.

Most famous in the world is Abruzzo's wine Montepulciano d ' Abruzzo ; in the late 20th and early 21st century, Montepulciano d ' Abruzzo earned a reputation as being one of the most widely exported DOC classed wine in Italy.

France now produces the most wine by value in the world ( although Italy rivals it by volume and Spain has more land under cultivation for wine grapes ).

Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

Austrian German (), or Austrian Standard German, is the national standard variety of the German language spoken in Austria and in the autonomous Province of South Tyrol ( Italy ).

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

** Battle of Placentia — Emperor Aurelian is defeated by the Alemanni forces invading Italy

Alaric's wife was reportedly taken prisoner after this battle ; it is not unreasonable to suppose that he and his troops were hampered by the presence of large numbers of women and children, which gave his invasion of Italy the character of a human migration.

* 476 – Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes ( Herulic-Scirian foederati ), is proclaimed rex Italiae (" King of Italy ") by his troops.

" Italy ", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, " Italy is my country – is the country and native soil of the arts.

The last one is in the Museum of Forlì, in Italy.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.

With a capacity of over 72, 000, it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more.

He is generally said to have been a pupil of Giacomo Carissimi in Rome, and some theorize that he had some connection with northern Italy because his early works seem to show the influence of Stradella and Legrenzi.

The oldest known adhesive, dated to approximately 200, 000 BC, is from spear stone flakes glued to a wood with birch-bark-tar, which was found in central Italy.

Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.

Among the natives, though Corsican nationalism is strong, and feeling often runs high in favour of a union with Italy, loyalty to France, as evidenced by elections, remains stronger.

Beyond France it is also grown in Italy ( where it is the country's 5th most planted grape ), California, Romania, Australia, Argentina, Bulgaria, Turkey, Canada, Chile, Greece, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Slovenia, Mexico and other parts of the United States such as Washington and Long Island.

De Niro was impressed with how the film had so accurately captured life in Little Italy ; De Niro had grown up on Bleecker Street, the northern boundary of Little Italy at the time.

In Italy alone at least three hundred cultivars have been enumerated, but only a few are grown to a large extent.

A third type, sometimes grown in southern Italy, has thick, celery-like leaf stems.

" He argued that the Pope was the " little horn " of Daniel 7: 8: A little horn has grown up with eyes and mouth speaking great things, which is reducing three of these kingdoms — i. e. Sicily, Italy, and Germany — to subserviency, is persecuting the people of Christ and the saints of God with intolerable opposition, is confounding things human and divine, and is attempting things unutterable, execrable.

Even the scientific handling of law, which has grown up during medieval times in the new universities in Italy ( in particular in Bologna, Mantua ) did not come to a full and clear separation.

Since they are no longer relevant for defense, such cities have grown beyond their walls, and many of the walls, or portions thereof, have been torn down, for example in Rome, Italy and in Beijing, China.

In the late 19th century, after Italian unification, a nationalist movement had grown around the concept of Italia irredenta, which advocated the incorporation into Italy of Italian-speaking areas under foreign rule.

Campania mainly produces fruit and vegetables, but has also expanded its production of flowers grown in greenhouses, becoming one of the leading regions of the sector in Italy.

Cannas became very popular in Victorian times as garden plants and were grown widely in France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the USA.

In the early 20th century, Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey defined, in detail, two garden species ( C. × generalis and C. × orchiodes ) to categorise the floriferous cannas being grown at that time, namely the Crozy hybrids and the ' orchid-like ' hybrids introduced by Carl Ludwig Sprenger in Italy and Luther Burbank in the USA, at about the same time ( 1894 ).

Malvasia Bianca is grown widely throughout the world in places like Italy, the San Joaquin Valley of California, the Greek Islands of Paros and Syros, the Canary Islands, Rioja and Navarra.

It is also grown in Italy and Croatia ( see Italian and Croatian varieties ).

Emmer is grown in Armenia, Morocco, Spain ( Asturias ), the Carpathian mountains on the border of the Czech and Slovak republics, Albania, Turkey, Switzerland and Italy.

By the 18th century, aromatic plants were being grown in the Grasse region of France, in Sicily, and in Calabria, Italy to provide the growing perfume industry with raw materials.

By 450 Roman control of Gaul had grown feeble, but stable, as had control over all of the provinces beyond Italy.

Malbec is also grown in Washington State, the northeastern tip of Oregon, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, British Columbia, the Long Island AVA of New York, Oregon, southern Bolivia, northeastern Italy and recently in Texas and southern Ontario, and in the Baja California region of Mexico.

DNA fingerprinting revealed that it is genetically equivalent to the Croatian grape Crljenak Kaštelanski, and also the Primitivo variety traditionally grown in Puglia ( the " heel " of Italy ), where it was introduced in the 18th century.

A little horn has grown up with eyes and mouth speaking great things, which is reducing three of these kingdoms -- i. e. Sicily, Italy, and Germany -- to subserviency, is persecuting the people of Christ and the saints of God with intolerable opposition, is confounding things human and divine, and is attempting things unutterable, execrable.

By this time, the monarchy, a number of Fascist government members, and the general Italian population had grown tired of the futile war effort which had driven Italy into subordination and subjugation under Nazi Germany.

Bergamot orange ( Citrus bergamia ) is a small citrus tree which blossoms during the winter and is grown commercially in Italy.

The governments of Greece, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary and France have all publicly announced that they will not allow the GE potato to be grown in their countries.

The species O. javanica, commonly known as Chinese celery or Japanese parsley ( seri ; not to be confused with mitsuba or Japanese wild celery, a plant from a different genus ) is edible and grown in several countries of eastern Asia, as well as in Italy and India, where the spring growth is relished as a vegetable.