Wine Relativity
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"...
The Miraculously Recovered Timorasso
25/06/2024
Like many Italian indigenous wine grape varieties, Timorasso had long been abandoned...
Wine Label Details
04/06/2024
Saturday noon, sitting in the kitchen of a friend's, with the sunlight pouring in through the French windows...
Italy’s 3 Main Orange Wines
31/05/2024
If amber wine is synonymous with orange wine, only more poetic....
Best Wine Stars 2024
22/05/2024
One year later, on Sunday, I returned to Palazzo del Ghiaccio for Best Wine Stars 2024...
Wines for Summer 2024, DoctorWine
14/05/2024
On Saturday I attended Wines for the Summer 2024 tasting (vini per l'estate) organised by DoctorWine at the Principe di Savoia Hotel in Milan...
Recioto the Straw Wine
07/05/2024
Recioto hails from Valpolicella in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, about half an hour's drive from Verona, the city where Romeo and Juliet fell in love...
My 1st Vinitaly
22/04/2024
Signing up for this year's Vinitaly came with an elevated feeling that I was now part of the wine world...
A few things about wine over the weekend
16/04/2024
On Sunday I saw a thought-provoking article in the latest issue of Il Venerdì di Repubblica magazine…