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JANUARY NEWS The ���Wine for the Table��� display features photos, equipment and other items to illustrate the rapid growth of the U.S. wine industry. Smithsonian Features American Wine Exhibit Wine display is one part of wider look at the evolution of American food S an Rafael, Calif.���The Smithsonian Institution is currently featuring ���Food, Transforming the American Table,��� a 3,800-square-foot exhibit that traces the rapid evolution of American food during the second half of the 20th century. One important element of that evolution is how Americans came to embrace wine and how the domestic wine industry responded to that growing demand. ���This is about food and change,��� said Paula Johnson, a curator at the National Museum of American History. Johnson said the exhibit begins with a visit to Julia Child���s actual home kitchen. Child was a ���force of change for many people in what they cooked and how they apwinesandvines.com proached food and wine.��� Learn more: On Nov. 19, several of California���s noSearch keywords ���Smithsonian wine.��� table winemakers attended a private dinner to commemorate the opening of the exhibit. Vintner Warren Winiarksi, whose Cabernet Sauvignon bested the French in the pivotal 1976 Judgment of Paris, told the audience, ���The history of the American wine industry is part of our history and a key element of the future.��� The display includes marketing booklets like ���Wine Tasting Party��� and ���Magic in Your Glass,��� published by the Wine Advisory Board in the 1960s, as well as a photo from a 1939 issue of Wines & Vines of a group of men tasting wines for the California State Fair. A display entitled ���Old Grapes New Ferment��� tells the story of Zinfandel by highlighting the stuck fermentation at Napa Valley���s Sutter Home, which spawned the white Zinfandel wine that made the Trinchero family���s fortune. A 1975 bottle of white Zinfandel is included in the display that also recounts University of California, Davis, researcher Carole Meredith���s conclusion that Zinfandel is the same variety as the Croatian grape Crljenak Kastelanski. Other historical items include tools from Napa Valley winemakers: a colorimeter and lab timer used by enologist Andre Tchelistcheff, a picking knife that had been used by Stags Leap District grapegrowing pioneer Nathan Fay, an ebullioscope and beret owned by vintner Mike Grgich and a wooden grape box and punch-down tool on loan from the Biale family. ���Andrew Adams THE ART LIVES ON��� { To effect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. ���Henry David Thoreau } Our barrels are works of art, crafted with expertise and perfection to honor wine. Partner with Tonnellerie Quintessence to create your masterpiece. 8 route de Canteloup���33750 Beychac & Caillau www.tonnelleriequintessence.fr SEE US AT UNIFIED, BOOTH #1705 Win es & Vin es JA N UA RY 20 13 29