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 | Aug 22, 2020 | A glass of
We are going to taste a Champagne of the most prestigious French Maisons, a Ruinart Blanc de Blancs. As a matter of interest, Ruinart is the oldest Maison in the Champagne region, born thanks to the intuition of a 23 year old monk Dom Thierry Ruinart who at the end of...
by Elena | Aug 14, 2020 | A glass of
We are in the Italian region of Marche, home of Verdicchio. But which Verdicchio? Yes, because this grape variety gives rise to two totally different types of wine: Verdicchio di Iesi and Verdicchio di Matelica. I have tasted both, and both are excellent white wines...
