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Wine tasting marathon in Franciacorta with FISAR Firenze – May 2014

By Katarina Andersson | May 28, 2014

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 … Read more

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Wine through Words – Translator vs Sommelier

By Katarina Andersson | April 21, 2014

“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 … Read more

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The happy “marriage” between sommeliers and translators – Words & Wine

By Katarina Andersson | November 10, 2013

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 … Read more

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