Exploring Italian Wine One Grape at a Time
I am standing in an Oseleta vineyard wrapped in beautiful autumn colors somewhere in Veneto, not far from Lake Garda, looking at the recently harvested vines. I am snapping photos together with fellow wine peeps, hoping to get to taste the monovarietal Oseleta wine. I am excited. This was me some years back. I was … Read more
Graziano Prà is an organic winery with vineyards in both Soave and Valpolicella in Veneto that looks toward the future. The owner Graziano Prà makes slim and elegant wines with longevity and great drinkability. He is one of five vintners – Gli Svitati – that have embraced and are promoting the use of screw caps … Read more
The Italo-Swiss couple Adriana and Urs Burkard dreamed about investing their time and resources in something different after a life spent in Switzerland’s corporate and finance sector. They decided on Tuscany and ended up acquiring three different estates: La Tenuta di Terrabianca in Radda in Chianti where the selling owner also had land in Maremma, … Read more
Colline Teramane DOCG is an appellation in Abruzzo that comprises the province of Teramo. It stretches from the Apennines with the Gran Sasso and Maiella at about 3000 meters altitude in the inland to sea level along the Adriatic coast. The wine area borders the province of Pescara in the south and Le Marche in … Read more
In Lucignano, located in the Valdichiana area in southeastern Tuscany, lies Tenuta Licinia. It is a small farm that the Belgian lawyer Jacques de Liedekerke acquired in the 1970s. His grandson James Marshall who has run the winery since 2020, says that his grandfather was “a wine lover but [in the beginning] he had no … Read more
The night of the Oscars is just over and as always it’s a grand event that celebrates the past year of mainly American cinema. I only watched a small part of it such as Emma Stone’s thank you speech with her partly broken dress in the back. Those little moments that always make the Oscars … Read more
The future of wine, or at least the future of Italian wine, was discussed at an event organized by the Uva Sapiens Consultancy Group in Veneto some months ago. Uva Sapiens is a team of vine and wine consultants founded by Mattia Filippi, Umberto Marchiori, and Roberto Merlo 10 years ago. In December last year, … Read more
When I watched the Danish Queen Margrethe II abdicate last Sunday in favor of making her son, Crown Prince Frederik X, become King of Denmark, it truly felt like witnessing history being written. I cannot say I am in favor of a society where royals have their own set of privileges but then, on the … Read more
Exploring Alto Adige: The Relationship Between Mountains and Wines Alto Adige is such a multifaceted wine region at the same time as it has a very strong and united wine identity as a consortium and a region. I was invited to the Wine Summit, organized by the Alto Adige Consortium, earlier this autumn. I was … Read more
Exploring the World of Wine: Cesanese del Piglio DOCG wines In this video, I talk about a recent press tour to Cesanese del Piglio organized by the Donne del Vino Lazio association, in Lazio. The tour focused on the Cesanese del Piglio area and its DOCG wines. We visited wineries in different areas of the … Read more