Béchamel sauce
What is Béchamel sauce?
 

 
 

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5 tbsp. butter
4 tbsp. all-purpose flour
4 cups milk
2 tsp. salt
½ tsp. freshly grated nutmeg


Procedure

In a medium saucepan, heat the butter over medium-low heat until melted. Add the flour and stir until smooth. Over medium heat, cook until the mixture turns a light, golden sandy color, about 6 to 7 minutes.
 
Meanwhile, heat the milk in a separate pan until just about to boil. Add the hot milk to the butter mixture 1 cup at a time, whisking continuously until very smooth. Bring to a boil. Cook 10 minutes, stirring constantly, then remove from heat. Season with salt and nutmeg, and set aside until ready to use. 
 

Clean and fresh, offering aromas of apple and cream. Full-bodied, with bright acidity and a long finish of stewed apple and lemon.

 

Chardonnay Blanc is made of 100 percent Chardonnay. After the harvest, the grapes are  immediately pressed and chilled. It is barrel-fermented and barrel-aged in French oak. The oak barrels are 25 percent new Troncais or Allier wood. Mazzolino uses the technique of "batonnage," which consists of stirring the lees at the bottom of the barrel, making the wine softer, creamier and more complex. After one year, the wine is ready for bottling. Chardonnay Blanc is gold in color and is rich and complex with ample flavors reminiscent of citrus fruit, hazelnuts, vanilla and honey.

 

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The history of Italian wine
You can find expensive Italian wine and not so expensive Italian wine and they are both as delicious as the other. It is pretty hard to go wrong with Italian wine, as they are all pretty much near perfect. The history of Italian wine is a history that is fascinating to say the least.
 
Italian wine is a culture all its own. For generations upon generations, Italian wine has played a large part in Italy's society. As long as four thousand years ago, the people who lived in Italy, the prehistoric people, were making and drinking wine. They would take the grapes still used in Italian wine today and press it in order to get the juice out. This grape juice would ferment as it sat waiting to be drunk and thus the first Italian wine was created.
 
Italian wine only grew and evolved from there until it got to the stage it is at today. In time, the whole Italian winemaking process changed and got to be more efficient. In the 19th century, Italian winemakers learned to process the grapes better to produce better wine and to bottle this wine.
 
The bottling of this Italian wine made shipping it easy, leading to even more popularity of Italian wine. In what seemed like no time at all, Italian winemakers were able to ship their Italian wine all over the known world. Italian wine was shipped to other parts of Europe and even to America.
 
In all of the years that people have been drinking Italian wine it has been refined and new varieties have popped up. Each of the new Italian wines are better than the last and this is only helping Italian wine to grow ever more popular in the wine market. No matter where it is that you live, you will be able to get and enjoy some fine Italian wine.
 
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