ANTONIA CASERTA

Living. Seeking. Sipping. Dreaming. Writing. In italy.

Tintore di Tramonti: Ultra-Centennial Vines Suspended Between Mountain and Sea

July 17, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

*This article was shortlisted in the Jancis Robinson 2021 wine writing competition and appears on her site here. The Amalfi Coast glistens as the Mediterranean mecca for those wanting to indulge their fantasies of la dolce vita. And rightly so. The enchanting beauty of this 50-kilometer stretch of jagged coastline in the Campania region of […]

A Serendipitous Discovery of an Ancient Wine – Part I

April 16, 2021.Reading time 16 minutes.

Anyone who has travelled by car or train through Italy knows how quickly the landscape varies as you make your way down the boot. Traveling southward on the Autostrada del Sole from Rome to Naples, you begin to notice how the verdant, dense mountain ranges of Lazio transform into mountain slopes resembling green ocean waves, […]