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The Italian Wine Society…
I’ve just found a web site called The Italian Wine Society. Though it’s based in the UK, they source a variety of quality wines from many Italian wine regions like Sicily, Tuscany, Piedmont and Lombardia.
You can search for a whole range of wines on their site – Red, Rose, White and Sparkling […]
Vinopolis: City of Wine…
Thought I’d find out more about the wine tour in London that I mentioned in a previous post – Vinopolis: City of Wine – as I’d like to go there this month. Also, it might be useful for any wine lovers out there intent on visiting London (or those who live there).
London’s […]
7 Gift Ideas for the Ultimate Italian-wine Lover (Part 2)
Continuing on from the gift ideas suggested in the previous post (did you try any of them, by the way?), here are 4 more for you to sink your teeth into!
The following are very simple ideas, but the wine lover in your life will love you for being so thoughtful.
IDEA 4: Corkscrews…
Yes. The humble corkscrew. […]
7 Gift Ideas for the Ultimate Italian-wine Lover…
So you have a friend, relative or partner who’s completely head-over-heels in love with Italian wine – it’s all they ever talk about. This person happens to be a really nice human being too. So you think: I know what - I’m going to get them a present, because they’re lovely and they deserve it.
Allow […]
Oh Good, Another Wine Event!
Following the initial elation and subsequent disappointment of not being able to attend last week’s international wine fair, I’m on the hunt for a wine event that EVERYBODY is allowed to attend.
I was crushed, I tell you, crushed on finding out that only traders could attend that festival (p.s. you had to show some sort […]
Care for a Tall Glass of Spumante?
‘Spumante’ (pronounced spoo-mahn-tay) means ‘foaming’ in Italian and is the name given to sparkling Italian wines (other terms used: ‘bubbly’ or ‘fizzy’ wine).
Italy wears the crown for producing the widest range of Spumante wines in the world. What a title to carry. And deservedly so, I might add! You can sample a range of Spumante […]
The London International Wine Fair
I was looking for a wine fair to go to in London, and as it so happened, to my delight, there’s one coming up this week! It’s a 3-day event running from May 20th-22nd at the ExCel International Exhibition and Conference Centre in East London.
The London International Wine Fair is considered to be ‘the single […]
Two Wine Festivals for the Price of One, Anyone?
There are two wine festivals in Chianti that take place around the same time (a week apart) and are in very close proximity to each other geographically. So if you’re planning a wine holiday in Italy this year, it might be an idea to earmark your diary for that time. The two wine festivals in […]
Sagrantino Day 2008 in London, Berlin, Tokyo and more
Sagrantino Day 2008 will present the Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG, made in Montefalco, a small city in Umbria, the green heart of Italy. It will be held April the 21st in many cities in Italy and also abroad: Luxembourg, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo, London, Bruxelles, Frankfurt. Here is the program of the Sagrantino Day 2008all […]
Bellavista Franciacorta Gran Cuveé Brut 2006
The aroma variables that help to make this Franciacorta are an important element, but not the only one, in determining the nose-palate type that clearly marks out this Gran Cuvée from traditional Bruts.
Indeed, over 30% of the wines that make up this Gran Cuvée are fermented and aged for over 7 months in small oak […]