Exploring Italian Wine One Grape at a Time
In this episode of the newly rebooted The Wines of Italy Show, we travel—virtually—to the windswept coast of southwestern Sicily to explore Sicilian wine and the history, culture, and wines of Tenuta Gorghi Tondi, a unique, women-led winery located in the heart of a WWF nature reserve near Mazara del Vallo. I welcomed Marilena Leta, … Read more
Recently, I got the opportunity to help to organize a wine tasting and to choose four Italian wines for an aperitif in Castellina in Chianti in Tuscany. On May 25th, I headed towards Castellina in Chianti together with my friend Letizia Galletti. It was time to manage a wine tasting that I had been planning … Read more
This article will talk about 6 wineries that can be thought of as expressions of southern terroir at #Vinitaly2017. In fact, what I noted at this year’s edition, was that native grape varieties, especially from the southern regions, were in focus. Cathy Huyghe, a (wine) journalist at Forbes, has made a good synthesis of #Vinitaly2017 … Read more
So this article is even more overdue than the last one about me and Nadia Padrin’s wine impressions at Vinitaly 2016 back in April. However, I have not had much time to write articles during the last couple of weeks due to work, so I will try and make up for it all now. In … Read more