Wine
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 05/01/2014 - 02:00
Wine – a lot of it – to discover, to smell, to taste: the occasion is Vinum, the festival celebrating the wines of Langhe and Roero taking place in Alba (…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Sat, 04/05/2014 - 02:30
Vinitaly - the world's top exhibition in the wine sector – begins tomorrow, April 6, in Verona and continues until April 9.
This year’s edition has already set…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Wed, 04/02/2014 - 12:27
Sometimes too much of a good thing can turn out to be a bad thing. In the 1970s and 1980s, Lambrusco was selling like, well, only easy-drinking fizzy red wine…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Tue, 03/25/2014 - 13:06
As a wine aficionado, I am always faced with a restaurant choice dilemma. On the one hand, I love to go to restaurants that have a wide and varied wine cellar…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Mon, 03/17/2014 - 11:46
Last week, I was researching Chianti wines and delving into the finer details of the distinctions between “plain” Chianti wine and Chianti Classico for an…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Sun, 03/16/2014 - 03:30
Who would have guessed that the country with the highest consumption of wine is the Vatican.
According to a study released by the California Wine Institute,…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Tue, 03/11/2014 - 12:15
Let’s face it, the name “Gewürztraminer” does not necessarily instantly evoke the idea of a fine Italian wine. However, Gewürztraminer, which literally…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Mon, 03/03/2014 - 11:31
In last week’s column we talked about the Super Tuscans. Complicated, expensive wines that, at times, require years to reach their full potential and with…
Food & Drink
by Vincent de Rossi | Mon, 02/17/2014 - 09:34
Take one aspiring wine buff, a country with arguably the richest wine tradition in the world (we are allowed to be biased here), 20 wine regions (with numerous…
Food & Drink
by Silvia Donati | Sun, 02/09/2014 - 02:30
A consortium to boost the production of Sciacchetrà, the exquisite sweet wine typical of the Cinque Terre, was recently established in Manarola.
Fifteen local…
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