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Did I dare too much?
Piedmont that emigrates, like me. The agnolotti, a typical Piedmontese dish of pasta dough filled with roasted meat, that it's a fixed appointment of our Italian Christmas lunch, this year it remained faithful to the line: even in this period of pandemic and...
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...
“Every family has one”
This is what it is written on this intriguing and nice label of "The Scallywag" - Chardonnay 2018 by Hugh Hamilton Wines, with a black sheep in the background. In fact this black sheep is the symbol of this South Australian wine...
Summer memories
In this period of back to re-confinement, there is a desire of positivity and very often good memories help. This is why I decided to re-open a wine that I discovered this summer in Abruzzo region, more precisely during the unforgettable visit to Tenuta i Fauri (see...
The intrepid Piemontese winemaker
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,...
Looking for certainty
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 province of...
High poetry
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...
The perfect combination
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...
“Paddy Clark ha ha ha” R. Doyle – Lambrusco Settefilari
"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 (well, I'm...