Wines

The vineyards of the Percivalle Estate in Borgo Priolo The Oltrepò deserves, today more than ever, a rediscovery after many years of prejudices and questionable management of an area that has always had the makings of a great terroir. Not only...

These days, to think that between prohibitions, limitations, difficulties in seeing friends and acquaintances, restaurants closed or almost, we are also approaching Lent, a period of penance and contrition par excellence, is frankly a bit strange. One would say that, even though ...

The historic center of Jesi seen from above Dici Verdicchio and thoughts immediately fly to the splendid Marche region, marked by gentle hills and the constant presence of the Adriatic. The territory is mainly mountainous and hilly with a thin flat belt ...

For those who hang out a bit in the world of wine, two things are certain! The first is that Italy has a truly incredible ampelographic heritage. The second is that our native vines sometimes take on the strangest and most unlikely names. Is exactly...

Lacrima di Morro d'Alba - Grapes. The first time I heard about the Lacrima di Morro d'Alba, a little ignorantly, I immediately thought that it was a grape from the famous Piedmontese town. Only later did I discover that Morro ...

The hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiane since 2019 included in the list of World Heritage Sites by Unesco We all know well the wild beauty of the vineyards that climb the steep hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiane, not surprisingly recently recognized by Unesco ...

The Teroldego vine, of ancient origins, is the most important black berried grape in Trentino. Here it seems to have come from Valpolicella, in the neighboring Veneto, where it was known with the name of Tirodola, so called from the system of implantation with tutors called ...

In Italy, it is known that it is difficult for two housewives from the same city, who live in the same building in the same neighborhood and on the same floor, to agree on how to prepare a plate of white pasta. So when there is ...

There is a lot of uncertainty about the etymological interpretation of the name Vermentino. The only hypothesis that has a certain reliability would seem to be the one advanced by Giusi Mainardi in 1995, according to which the name could be traced back to the term "vermene" which means young, flexible twig ...

The last stretch of the road is all dirt and what becomes a kind of path forks: the navigator, at this point, no longer gives you directions, but if you turn right after a few meters you realize you were wrong, because ...

Surely at least once we will have heard of heroic viticulture and we will probably have imagined the superhero version of Marvel's winemakers. We haven't actually gone that far and let's see why! The viticulture practiced on ...

Classic method sparkling wine bottles arranged in the pupitres, the inclined bottle stand designed by Antione Muller The undeniable spread of Prosecco globally in recent years has made it so that the term itself became the identifier of the entire category of ...

View of Aleatico vineyards on a typical Mediterranean landscape. The origin of the Aleatico is still today the subject of discussion. In 1303 De Crescenzi believed that it was of Tuscan origin and cited Livatica among the varieties formerly cultivated in the region. Trinci, in 1738, ...

A Timorasso cluster - Azienda La Colombera The area around Tortona, the ancient Roman city formerly called Julia Derthona, has always been a strategic passageway between the plain and the sea: centuries of conflicts, trade (the salt road) and culture. .

FISAR Milan Duomo Delegation | A new edition of the First Level Course for Aspiring Sommeliers organized by the FISAR Milano Duomo Delegation is starting from 11 November. The first level course, divided into 13 lessons, aims to introduce the new trainee ...

If you are in Campania, one of the areas worth visiting is Cilento, a vast territory in the province of Salerno, which begins shortly after the capital and reaches the border with Basilicata. A region...

Cluster and glass of Albana It is very likely that this vine derives its name from the Latin word albus (white, pale), considered by some to refer to the area of ​​the Albana Hills, believing that this is the area from which the ...

Spirits are a vast and ever-expanding universe, within which the galaxy of Rum takes center stage. Distillate born in the seventeenth century in the Caribbean and in central-southern America thanks to the Spanish, French and English colonizers, ...

The Novara plain seen from the hills at the foot of Mount Fenera, the sanctuary in the foreground There is a small territory, unknown to most, lying on the first hills that stretch from the Novara plain to the mountains and valleys of ...