Scioglivinolingua

Usually one's tongue becomes tied after drinking wine. Instead, there are Italian wines that produce the same linguistic effect just from ordering them, due to their somewhat intimidating names.

Sergio Esposito writes a fascinating e-mail newsletter every week for Italian Wine Merchants, the store he founded in New York City in 1999 along with Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich. Recently he singled out "two trios of tongue-twisting wines that will positively please your palate." In addition to tasting notes, Esposito even provided a pronunciation guide for distinctive northern Italian red wines such as Marzemino [mah(l)r-tseh-MEE-no] and Schiava [skyAH-vah].