Tag: wine tastings

A Serendipitous Discovery of an Ancient Wine – Part I

.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, […]

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Comeback Kids

.Reading time 6 minutes.

Everyone loves a good comeback story. The struggles. The failures. The eventual rising up and emotional triumph. But what about when it comes to wine? Doesn’t seem like the two have anything in common, right? Oh, but how wrong you are. Wine has been around for a long, long time. Since about 6000 BC actually, if you […]

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Young Producers

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Most “wine lovers”, while imbibing the deliciousness that is (good great) wine, rarely think about the “who”. They might give thought to the varietal, the country or region, if they will have another glass (probably, yes) and if it might be a good bottle to bring to their next gathering. But I would venture to […]

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