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Let’s discover the Ventoux AOC
It's Sunday, 11:50 am: nothing is ready, the beasts (my children) becoming impatient. One word: hunger. Indeed another one: fast. I am not very smart in the kitchen, so I open the fridge which suggests me two ingredients: sausage and leeks. A quick look on the web (I...
Let’s celebrate!
Champagne has always been synonymous of: "we must celebrate". Yes, because the moments of life in which you have to celebrate do not happen every day and, nevertheless, sometimes they even go unnoticed. A matter of habit? Rush? Missed opportunity? Given little weight?...
The Swiss Apéro
I am in Switzerland, I am Swiss and I love everything that is local, and why not even organic. On the occasion of the Festi'Terroir in Geneva, walking along the marché set up in the very central and historic Parc des Bastions, animated by local producers and artisans...
I need a Brunello
This was my first thought when I discovered that my quarantine would not be ended, but even extended by a few more days ... This is how it happens, when you have no power over events, just hoping that this evil virus doesn't spread too much damage and you will finally...
I am lost
Caught by the label: the more I stare at it, the more I feel like Mowgli hypnotized by the snake Kaa. I feel catapulted into a labyrinth, or rather lost in searching, in vain, for a meaning in an Escher drawing. Fortunately,...
A Champagne that leaves its mark
Giving a woman flowers is always a moment of pleasant surprise: even for a person like me who is million miles from having a green thumb (I can even kill succulents ...), receiving a floral gift, from the simple rose to the most majestic bouquet of flowers of all...
Looking for happiness
If you have to open a bottle and you want to have fun, you can only choose this Sicilian white wine. Why? Because Sicily is a land that brings joy, because it is a Sicilian indigenous vine, Grillo, and because the label has designed, precisely, a bright cricket...
We are all born crazy. Some remain.
This is the incipit signed by Samuel Beckett that you can find on the Ca 'de Pazzi ("House of fools" in English) website. Madness in a liquid state: this is how this Franciacorta DOCG producers introduce theirselves, a concept born from the meeting of two young guys...
Feel like dreaming
I can't imagine anything else while tasting Terre Alte by Livio Felluga, Rosazzo DOCG 2018. The history of this winery is fascinating, to say the least. A company that has survived two Wars and that in the 1950s, while the mass was heading towards the city, swimming...
A particular Christmas
Never like this Christmas 2020 will go down in history: I am speaking at least of my history, since, for pandemic reasons, for the first time in my life I will spend Christmas holidays away from my family in Italy. This is why I decided to savor every single minute of...