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Please The Palate is a boutique firm specializing in marketing and event planning for the wine and spirits industry.  From new product launches to regional promotions, Please the Palate creates and tailors packages to meet each client’s needs from the big picture to the organizational details. Owner Allison Levine has designed and produced trade tastings in all major markets around the United States for wineries, wine associations and spirits companies, both domestic and international. Please the Palate is dedicated to providing seamless customer service. In addition, Allison Levine is a freelance writer covering wine, spirits, food, travel and lifestyle, as well as a podcast host interviewing winemakers and winery owners.

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Please The Palate is a boutique firm specializing in marketing and event planning for the wine and spirits industry.  From new product launches to regional promotions, Please the Palate creates and tailors packages to meet each client’s needs from the big picture to the organizational details. Owner Allison Levine has designed and produced trade tastings in all major markets around the United States for wineries, wine associations and spirits companies, both domestic and international. Please the Palate is dedicated to providing seamless customer service. In addition, Allison Levine is a freelance writer covering wine, spirits, food, travel and lifestyle, as well as a podcast host interviewing winemakers and winery owners.

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With a plan to return to Sicily this May, I’m remembering my trip last spring. It was my second time to the island, but this visit offered a different kind of immersion, a chance to dive deep into the grapes, the terroir, and the evolution of Sicilian wine. So before I board another flight, I want to offer a primer, something to set the stage for why Sicily matters, how it got here, and why the wines coming out of this island today feel like a rebirth....

When I first saw the bottle, I had never heard of the grape "Black Malvoisie". But in fact, Black Malvoisie is an old name for Cinsault. The dark-skinned grape, often found in blends, was first exported to California in the 1860s under the name Black Malvoisie. While it is hard to find information as to why it was called Black Malvoisie, it is more commonly labeled Cinsault today. However, Derby Wine Estates labels their wine Black Malvoisie, and the Derby Wine Estates 2023 Black Malvoisie, Derby Vineyard, Paso Robles, is the Please The Palate wine of the week....

Behind every great wine is a great story. And some stories stretch back centuries. I recently had the extraordinary pleasure of dining with Marchese Anselmo Guerrieri Gonzaga, the current steward of his family’s Trentino-based estate, San Leonardo, a winery just named Gambero Rosso’s 2025 Winery of the Year. It was a night filled with warmth, history, and wines that truly reflect their place....

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