Filippo Gautier of Martini & Rossi with Sommelier Emily Grace (Wine & Food Gala).

Maria Teresa Sperone (l.) with models Wendy Deshais (c.) and Jodi Paulovich (Wine & Food Gala).

Cesare Cecchi (l.), Jacopo Biondi Santi (c.) and Count Ferdinando Guicciardini of Castello di Poppiano (Wine & Food Gala)

Benedetta Sainaghi, IWFI director, with wine producer Jacopo Biondi Santi (c.) and Lucio Caputo, IWFI president (Wine & Food Gala).

From l. to. r., Jacopo Biondi Santi, Maurizio Ferri (Bola), Monica Maggioni (TG1 News, Italy) and Giovanni Folonai (Wine & Food Gala).

Broadway Ball of Marriott Marquis during Italian Wine & Food Gala.

Press luncheon preceding the Super Tusan & Other Great Wines of Tuscany tasting at the Marriott Marquis.

Cesare Cecchi of Banfi pours for wine writer and teacher Harriett Lembeck at Super Tuscan tasting.

Francesco Zonin pours wine while Maria Frisone of Wine Wave looks on (Super Tuscan tasting).

Countess Margaret Cicogna with Andrew Gellert from Atalanta Corp. which served a wide selection of cheeses (Super Tuscan tasting).

Elisabeth Faller of Delizie d'Uggiano, Paris, pours for Maurizio Ferri of Bola and journalist Laurie Bodor (Super Tuscan tasting).

Roccaldo Acuti of Tenuta Vecchie Terre di Montefili with Franca and Violante Lepore (Super Tuscan tasting).

Ruffino's Adolfo Folonari with Jill Palais (l.) and Marlene Fern Dobrins, Schieffelin & Somerset (Super Tuscan tasting).

L. to r.: Laurie Bodor, Lucio Caputo, Genny di Bert, Amb. Giorgio Radicati and Princess Irina Guicciardini Strozzi at Super Tuscan tasting.

Amb. Sergio Vento with his wife, Maria Magdalena (r.) and Princess Guicciardini Strozzi at the Super Tuscan tasting.

In Los Angeles for the IWFI Gala Dinner at Valentino's is Consul General Massimo Roscigno and his wife, Agnes Ventura Roscigno.

Marquis Armando Fumanelli with his wife Roberta (Wine & Food Gala).

Ivano Reali of Castello di Gabbiano with William Callahan of Beringer Bass (Wine & Food Gala).

Mario Iaccarino (l.), Italian Trade Commisssion, Stefano Raimondi (c.), Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Rome, and Lucio Caputo, IWFI (Gala).

Diego Maggio, president, Club Paladini di Sicilia, presents replica of Paladino dei vini di Sicilia to Lucio Caputo. Original lost in WTC disaster.