Italy, Apennines hills near Modigliana, Romagna By claudiozacc via Adobe Express Typically, when we think of Sangiovese in Italy, we think of Chianti and the Tuscan region, but Sangiovese is grown in multiple parts of Italy. The wine we are...
Buco del Prete Romagna Sangiovese from Ronchi di Castelluccio in Modigliana I received a set of 4 wine samples from Ronchi di Castelluccio in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and was invited to a Zoom Meeting with Aldo Mario Rametta, who owns the...
Chianti It’s one of Italy’s best-known wines. As a child, you might remember it in that straw-wrapped bottle with a candle on the table during the famous spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp. (Go ahead—click the link. If you...
These beautiful bottles arrived as media samples, and I wanted to give them a fitting pairing. The wines are from Il Conte Villa Pradone. The winery is very near the southern border of Marche in the Ascoli Piceno province in...
Episode 4 of Discovering Wine Country On this episode of Discovering Wine Country, we head to the high desert of Washington’s Yakima Valley. We will discover the five nested AVAs of the Yakima Valley AVA and visit some vineyards, including...
Lazio (or Latium) is a place that visitors to Italy flock to. It is the Italian region that sits at the knee of the boot, with Italy’s most famous city, Rome. Visitors flock to the city, but wine lovers? It’s...
Last spring, we found ourselves in Australia for the Wine Media Conference held in the Hunter Valley. Well really, last fall for us in October, but it was spring in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. After the conference, we attended...
We find ourselves in strange unprecedented times. I find it hard to focus on wine when there are so many more important things to focus on right now. My country is going through change, a change that is long overdue....
It was sunset of our only full day in Mudgee New South Wales. We headed out to meet Col Millot, the Viticulturist at First Ridge Vineyard on the south east side of the Mudgee Valley. While viewing the sunset from...
It was July 2019 and we were on summer whirlwind trip called #thescenicroute. We had come from the beautiful Columbia Gorge region and were meeting Seth Kitzke at Candy Ridge Vineyard at Candy Mountain. We pulled in and up to...
Red Wine Social. It’s organized chaos. Go ahead, look at the video first and see what we are up against! 10 wineries, 5 minutes each. For them: 5 minutes to give us the elevator schpiel on their winery and wine...
Day 3 Southern Oregon & the Applegate Valley Day 3 had us up early and traveling back the way we had been the afternoon before. The Applegate Valley AVA in Southern Oregon established in 2000, is actually a sub...
Tempting Spoonfuls: Pairing single bites with glorious wines
Tempting Spoonfuls - small bites paired with wines from around the globe
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