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December 2014

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106  /  the tasting panel  /  december 2014 BEHIND THE SCENES WITH FRED DAME Fred Dame: Gianpaolo, do you still have the blanket I gave you when you were born? Gianpaolo Paterlini: (laughing) Fred, I'm sure my parents do. Acquarello just got its second Michelin star. Your father, Giancarlo Paterlini and Chef Suzette Gresham must be ecstatic. You have that wonderful list of wines there—2,000 on the wine list. Then you go around the corner and open a completely different concept. But my feeling is that you are celebrating the old and the new! Acquerello has a classic look and menu. Here we have a wide-open dining room, modern décor and a smaller menu of unique items that suit the wine list . . . which, by the way offers, just over 200 wines. Gianpaolo Paterlini with Fred Dame, MS, VP/Prestige Accounts, American Wine & Spirits of CA (a division of SW&S). photos by John Curley A Conversation with Gianpaolo Paterlini SOMMELIER, RESTAURANT 1760, SAN FRANCISCO

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