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Less than an hour's drive south of all the Olympic action in Torino lies the beautiful wine country of Italy's Piedmont region. WNBC's Otis Livingston and I headed there earlier this week for a tour of the area's countless vineyards and, yes, some wine tasting.
First stop was a tiny town whose name is very familiar to wine connoisseurs: Barolo. Between well-paced sips of a '99 overlooking Northern Italy's scenic countryside, vineyard owner Daniela Veglio explained the key to enjoying this abundant, rich tasting -- and typically more expensive -- red wine. And it can be summed up in one word: patience. Every sip tastes slightly different, Veglio said. "Every time you put some Barolo in your glass and give it some air you feel something new. So from the first glass to the last one you always have something new to taste in your glass, and that's the great thing about Barolo."
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Link to thisYour feedback to senior broadcast producer Bob Epstein's first weekend post a week ago made it more evident than ever that the news does not stop on weekends. And we have heard you: you want us to expand our Nightly Netcast, now posted on the Internet at 10 p.m. ET each weekday night, to Saturday and Sunday. Rest assured, we are working on it and hope to have a weekend Nightly News Netcast up and running soon. As for this weekend, Bob is taking a well deserved few days off. So, John Seigenthaler will have to bear with fellow senior producer Pat Burkey and me as we attempt to fill his shoes.
Once again, we are watching news at this early hour out of Iraq and it is not good. Two suicide bombings and more than a dozen Iraqis dead. Jim Maceda has just spent Thanksgiving in Iraq and will have the latest on this, and more from his visit earlier in the week with members of the 3rd Infantry Division, now approaching the end of their second tour of duty. (For those of you who missed last night's broadcast, Jim ably pulled together this chilling video of militants rehearsing for their devastating attack a few weeks ago outside the Palestine and Sheraton hotels. It's worth a look.)
Discuss (4 comments) Email this | Link to thisMIAMI - It is 1:10 am ET Tuesday as I write this and reporter Michelle Kosinski and I are bunking on two couches generously provided by our generator-friendly affiliate WTVJ in South Florida.
For team Kosinski, today was supposed to be the culmination of four days of waiting and waiting and waiting for Hurricane Wilma to strike Florida's West Coast. This would be my first hurricane, and surrounded by several news veterans of hurricane coverage, I was ready.
We were posted in Ft. Myers Beach. Four days and three hotels later (the first one kicked us out following mandatory evacuations; and we only lasted a day in the Hawaiian-themed, Spring Break friendly but structurally unsound second hotel) Wilma roared ashore at 6 a.m. Monday morning.
Michelle was ready to report on its effects for the Today Show but at 6:45 a sudden wind shift threatened to send our satellite dish to that great satellite truck in the sky. The wind was fierce, but after all the build up, a little anti-climactic as we were on the northern edge of the cone. But we were still unable to broadcast from our location all morning.
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