Exploring Italian Wine One Grape at a Time
On Tuesday, October 11th, my guests at Wines Of Italy Livestream will be Federica and Gianluca Cabrini from Tenuta Belvedere in Montecalvo Versiggia which is in the province of Pavia in Lombardy. This winery is situated in the Oltrepò Pavese wine district in Lombardy. They produce a sparkling wine m’Ami Spumante Extra Brut made with pinot … Read more
Last Thursday Fisar Firenze had organized a dinner at the restaurant La Ménagére in the center of Florence. The wines for the evening were from the producer Brunnenhof in the locality Mazzon in Alto Adige. Mazzon is well-known for being a wine production area in the town district Neumarkt (Egna in Italian) in South Tyrol. The … Read more
“She walks in Beauty, like the night” from She Walks in Beauty, by George Gordon, Lord Byron Even though it is still somewhere between winter and spring, and on the hills surrounding Livorno last weekend it was fairly rainy and grey, it is still a place that “walks in beauty”. Livorno is known as one … Read more
As you have probably understood by now, February is the month when you can get all the sneak peeks of the Tuscan wines being launched during the year. Together with my friend and fellow sommelier Nadia Padrin, we have so far covered the sneak peeks of Nobile di Montepulciano (covered by Nadia), Tuscany Taste, (the … Read more