by Elena | Oct 29, 2020 | Wine tours
For a long time I wanted to visit the Ettore Germano winery, attracted by the keenest curiosity to try their Riesling, the famous Hérzu, a vine that I consider to be among the most fascinating and elegant so far tasted and definitively one of my favorites. Yes,...
by Elena | Oct 4, 2020 | A glass of
An attitude that has been my own since I have nurtured a passion for wine, is to test whether what I read and heard around a brand is true and authentic. Pieropan is – essentially though not only – synonymous of Soave, a Veneto DOC appelation from the...
by Elena | Sep 27, 2020 | A glass of
It is strange how I came to this bottle of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. Have I been to the Marche region? Yes. Did I visit the winery? Unfortunately no…. So what? Well, it was a gift: a gift from a person very dear to me with high expertise in wines because she...
by Elena | Sep 19, 2020 | Unusual pairings
Chile and the United Kingdom, South America and Northern Europe: two distinct countries that at first glance have very little in common, whether in terms of language, food or culture. And yet, believe me: if we put on the table a traditional English cheese like...
by Elena | Sep 3, 2020 | Wine and words
“Paddy Clark ha ha ha” is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read: this book shows you the world with the same eyes as the protagonist, a 10 year old Irish boy in the Dublin suburbs of the sixties. Paddy surely remind us when we were 10-year-olds...
