Exploring Italian Wine One Grape at a Time
Day 1 Il Mosnel We were a group of happy, even though still sleepy, sommeliers and friends of FISAR Firenze who started out early last Saturday morning (May 24) with destination Franciacorta in Lombardy. After a couple of hours on the bus we arrived excited to the first winery on our itinerary, Il Mosnel (meaning … Read more
“Language is wine upon the lips” Virginia Woolf Translator and sommelier Last spring, while finishing the last level of the sommelier course in Florence, I started thinking more and more about the links between wine, enology and translation. Through my translation activity, TradurreTranslate of Katarina Andersson, I had already translated web sites and other material about … Read more
English The event Words & Wine yesterday at Hotel Michelangelo in Florence, organised by FISAR and sponsored also by AITI, was, as Helen Farrell has already mentioned, “…the first ever Wine & Words seminar held in Florence…”. The one day seminar was a joint venture between sommeliers FISAR and translators from AITI, more specifically a group … Read more