17/10/2024
A two-hour drive southeast from Milan takes you to a place called Scandiano, where the Po River Plain joins the Apennines, the flatness beginning to undulate. It is in this undulating area that the Spergola grape was born hundreds of years ago...
25/08/2024
Last weekend a friend sent me a photo of an elderly couple eating in a pub, with two glasses of red wine and a 3/4 full bottle on the table. It wasn't a brow raiser till my friend added a text saying "London at 9am"...
25/06/2024
Like many Italian indigenous wine grape varieties, Timorasso had long been abandoned...
04/06/2024
Saturday noon, sitting in the kitchen of a friend's, with the sunlight pouring in through the French windows...
16/04/2024
On Sunday I saw a thought-provoking article in the latest issue of Il Venerdì di Repubblica magazine…