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All That Jazz!
Warning: this is a post with a soundtrack, so crank up the volume! Altro che 3 Tenorini! as we would say. Italians love the number 3: remember Dante? So once upon a time, there were the 3 tenors...
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Swept Away…
Everyone should take a sailboat trip around Italian islands at some point in their life. Now when Domenico Modugno sang ‘Nel blu dipinto di blu‘ this is what he was talking about! A recent cruise...
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Libiam, libiamo!
The people who came up with this idea of Opera Wine really were on to something. The combination of opera and wine isn’t incidental: there are divas in both worlds. Great personalities, dramatic...
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The Culture of Wine Part 1: Tasca d’Almerita
Capofaro, Malvasia & Resort on Salina Did you know that Italy has more UNESCO World Heritage Sites than any other country in the world? All that art and nature… wonderful, right? But how can one...
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The Culture of Wine Part II: Masi Agricola
The classy, the classic, Masi Costasera Amarone (Photo courtesy of Archivio Masi Agricola) Talk about brand recognition! Masi‘s unmistakable label is synonymous with Amarone. The Boscaini family, with...
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A Midsummer Night’s Wild Dream
Collisioni – that’s what this mega-festival in the tiny hamlet of Barolo is called. And collide you do! With people, with ideas, with tastes, with energy. Talk about bringing things together. Yours...
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This First Lady is No Prima Donna!
No, I am not talking politics! I am talking about Donatella Cinelli Colombini, one of Italy’s premier Brunello di Montalcino winemakers. This week we visited Fattoria del Colle in Trequanda and Casato...
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Va, pensiero! A Chorus of Italian Wine
Since Vinitaly kicks off each year with the Wine Spectator-sponsored event, Opera Wine, I thought it would be appropriate to choose an operatic soundtrack for this post. Crank up the volume, because...
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Name that Tune! Vinitaly 2017
Molise: The Sound of Wine. Love that. Not sure I know what it means. But it doesn’t matter. What sound does wine make? Lots of different sounds, depends on where you are, at what point the wine is...
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The Noblest of Wines: Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Wandering through the Tuscan countryside – something everyone should do at least once in a lifetime! – one stumbles upon hilltop towns that seem frozen in time. Montepulciano is a Medieval jewel, a...
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For The First Time In Forever
The world of wine offers many first times: new flavors, new aromas, new colors… Truth to be told, every new encounter with an unknown bottle is a first time. And how many first times at Vinitaly, the...
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If you know what these two things have to do with each other, you are on top of your Italian culture! Last Saturday night, the 71st annual Festival di Sanremo, Italy’s annual music festival, concluded...
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