[Ann Archy]

OMG!! No WINE????

[Vaquero]

OMG!! No WINE????

not all Italians are fans of wine. though lots are.

at Sunday and Holiday meals at my Calabrese Nannas house, my Uncles would all drink beer and the lone bottle of Chianti or Muscatel, would be used for a toast, then ignored...my Napoliano Grandfather on my mother's side, drank very little if at all, wine or beer. His sons would drink beer if they drank.

though I knew lots of neighborhood Americans of Italian extraction who made wine and drank it liberally.

we would have called a guy like Gandolfini who consumed food and drink like a pig....a 'GAVONE!' (spelled Caffone)

[angcat]

Oh so what the guy had some drinks and food I would also party if I was rich and hanging out in Italy. He probably had undetected Heart Disease and never saw a Dr. so now the press has to bad mouth him. At least he had no part in the destruction of the USA.

[SC_Pete]

Really. I figured a barrel of Barolo—or a case of Chianti Classico.