A few weeks ago Luca’s client gave him a coupon for a wine tasting in different parts of Italy. A lovely present for us wine lovers! Even though we could have gone anywhere we choose to visit this small winery FONTECHIARA in our own town Borgomanero. Mr. Ferrari has turned his hobby into work after retirement. Together […]
This wine was a gift from Luca’s client and as we discovered it to be a really good Piedmontese wine I wanted to share it with you tonight. I know I need to make up for my post-less Wednesday and thought I could do that with a wine… Who can remain dissapointed about yesterday when seeing another tasteful […]
Yesterday we have visited the vineyards and the wine cellars of the delicious wine Travaglini Gattinara! And we also had the possibility to taste a few of them. Lucky us! When I just started this blog I posted about this prestigious wine in my post Hills…Grapes…Wine! I must admit that I wasn’t very fond of red wines […]
Yet another delicious wine from my region Piemonte…BARBARESCO this time! Barbaresco is a red, slightly sweet wine and relatively light in colour. Made with the nebbiolo grape in the area of Langhe to the east of the place called Alba. In 1980 it got the status Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (Controlled Designation of Origin Guaranteed). DOCG regulations state that this wine must […]
Today I present to you a red wine that has been awarded many times since it was produced in 1892: “BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO DOCG 2005″. It is the most important wine in the Barbi Farm Fattoria dei Barbi for over a century. This wine is made with 100% Sangiovese grapes and it has been aged in small-medium […]
Back in the 1500s a family of wine-growers called Mirù lived in this area. This is the start of the delicious wine called: Mirù – Colline Novaresi Vespolina D.O.C. Nowadays (starting from right after World War II) it’s the Arlunno family that makes sure that we can enjoy this deep ruby-red and balanced wine. The ‘Colline […]
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