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The magnetic attraction between Florence and wine-lovers makes it home to some of the finest wines money can buy. With numerous events throughout the year, wine culture is a staple part of Florence’s offering, and the articles here include reviews of wine bars and tastings, news on local trade fairs, and opportunities to learn about a key part of Italian life.
“It’s probably because I’m crazy,” Bibi Graetz laughs, as we chat in the windowed Blu Bar in Fiesole’s piazza Mino. The eclectic winemaker is making the move ...
Boasting bucolic views of Montepulciano, Salcheto might look like the Teletubbies set with its green setting, spacey bubbles and steel tubes, but this winery is as purposeful as it is ...
A 30-minute drive southeast of Florence, Torre a Cona stands strikingly near the hilltop village of San Donato in Collina. Embraced by olive trees, verdant vineyards and sturdy age-old walls, ...
The Tuscan town of Pontassieve recently paid tribute to its last fiascaia. A much-loved local institution and a ceaseless advocate for women’s rights, Fernanda (or Franca, as she was known ...
There is a very Florentine phenomenon of Last Supper paintings in the refectories of convents and monasteries; these images functioned to remind religious diners of the sacrament of the Eucharist, ...
Tuscany is home to almost 60,000 hectares of vineyards. From February 9 to 18, the regional wine previews, held in Florence, San Gimignano, Montepulciano and Montalcino, provide an opportunity to find out more.
With the 2018 harvest season drawing to an end, The Florentine found out what to expect from this vintage in the making.
Regular readers will know all about Florence’s The Wine Talks this summer. Writing about wine is part of my job, visiting cantine and interviewing winemakers. But the bread and butter ...
Don’t miss #RuffinoCares #WineWednesday, an events showcase in Italian and English celebrating the culture of wine every Wednesday from June 20 to September 26 in piazzetta dei Tre Re, co-curated by Ruffino Wines and The Florentine.
As the spring sun filtered in through the modern offices of millennium-old Barone Ricasoli, owner Francesco Ricasoli spoke to The Florentine about the importance of soil for Sangiovese, a lifetime ...
Wine is not just white or red, the varieties are various and each has its own weird and wonderful personality traits. Here’s my super-pop method to remember everything: thumbs up ...
It dawned on me in the wine aisle of the COOP one early October evening in 2016, that “something” was up. I didn’t fancy a glass of wine with dinner. ...
If you want to know anything about wine, ask a sommelier. These wine lovers put their livers on the line every day to bring the very best labels to your ...
Down a steep hill and wading across a ford, Mulini di Segalari has to be seen to be believed. Planted everywhere you look with vines, bursting with vibrancy even post-harvest, ...
Can you think of a merrier place to spend Christmas than in cantina? The concept almost sees me cancelling my flights north, but at least these pre-Natale events make stocking up ...
From Chianti Classico to wine courses, French Champagne to Alto Adige whites, Florence boasts a wine bar scene worth uncorking.
Ribarbella sits prettily in the Pisa province, a leisurely half-hour drive down the picturesque via Vecchia Aurelia takes you from brassy Bolgheri to another brilliant wine region.
There’s a pocket-sized enoteca in NYC’s “the Village” that serves Italian wines by the glass: its name is Gottino. In Pontassieve, my hometown that regularly sleeps, miniscule pizzeria Da Sandrino ...
Collisioni Wine Project, in Barolo, is ideal for producers wishing to receive firsthand feedback on their wine and learn about market opportunities.
If you’ve ever eaten in San Niccolò, likely it was a hearty Florentine affair among amici at the Osteria Antica Mescita. On the table a fiasco flowing with rough-around-the-edges red ...
Native grapes have become a thing on the Italian wine scene, even if they have been around longer than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Filippo Bartolotta is a humble guy, down to earth, dynamic and utterly devoted to his passion and profession: wine. These qualities earned him the privilege of selecting and serving wines ...
Famiglia Cecchi’s Val delle Rose is a summer outing, a break from the beach or an escape from the city. Into the wilds and into the wine.
Welcome to Poggio Casciano, an oasis of oenology in the hills outside the village of Grassina, the jewel in the crown of renowned Tuscan winery Ruffino.
