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Toblino: lakes, legends, castles and wines
A small lake of Alpine waters, and an environment so unique that it is classed as a biotope, in need of protection at all costs. A medieval castle, bu...
Suddenly together again
Speaking as someone who has been able to look from both sides of the camp, these old-new – erste-neue, as they say on Italy’s Austrian bor...
Pasqua and Pastiera: the sacred and the profane
In Naples, pastiera is more than an Easter sweet treat: it’s a religion in itself. Just find a couple of Neapolitans, and gently turn ...
Vino Novello: something else
Over the last few days, we have seen the first flakes of snow fall on a number of Italian regions. And with the mercury dropping, and the fire blazing...
Maremma and its red wines
It’s not rare for parts of Italy to be distorted in shape and substance by arbitrary, administrative borders, dividing the integral and blurring...
Venus and Mars: the heavenly couple
We know that the Etruscans – in their tongue which has yet to be decoded – called them Turan and Laran. These names mean no...
Rivers of wine: a dream that comes true
It’s an image beloved of the sots and the dipsos, a story of being able to drink unlimited quantities of wine to your heart’s content. It&...
The other Sangiovese is white
Italy has the greatest range of grape varieties in the world: 182 types of table grapes and more than 545 that can be used for winemaking. Many of the...
La vie en rose
What kind of wine has dominated in recent years? What type has been most fashionable? There’s not an atom of doubt: it’s rosé. Ros...
Vermentino: the savor of the sea.
No one quite knows where Vermentino originally came from. The most widely held theory maintains that the grape hails from Spain, from where it spread ...
Cabernet Sauvignon, the grape of two worlds
Cabernet Sauvignon is the most widely cultivated grape in the world. To give you some idea of its popularity, the famous journalist and wine critic Ja...
Rosatello: the color of the Dolce Vita
There are some wines that are older than just about all of us. Iconic wines, wines that symbolize the most significant moments of an epoch, and which...
Prosecco Rosè: an overnight success
In his Naturalis Historia, the Roman writer and naturalist Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned the quality, almost as an elixir for a long life...
Florence’s wine holes
You can find them all over Tuscany. There’s almost 200 of them and there’s even one in Piedmont. Most of them are in Florence, especially ...
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