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On November 18, 2016, historic winery Ruffino threw a party in its Pontassieve cellars for its new artsy bottle of Chianti. Designed by Andy Fumagalli, an artist and ...
Select Chianti wineries have teamed up to launch The Art of the Treasure Hunt, an initiative aimed at stimulating wine tourism and showcasing international contemporary art in unique settings. ...
“Drink it cool” is the mantra being promoted by the Chianti Wine Consortium this summer. In efforts to increase red wine sales in Italy during the summer months, the ...
In America, a barrel race is a rodeo event in which horsewomen negotiate a cloverleaf course marked off by three 55-gallon metal barrels. In Montepulciano, the Bravìo is sometimes described ...
Picture seven journalists and two winemakers bouncing around in a Land Rover Defender in the wilds of Maremma. The scent of broom drifts in through the windows, the sun beats ...
Chianti Rufina is one of the smallest of the Chianti sub-zones, producing far less wine than Chianti Colli Senesi and Chianti Classico, so you’ll be (just about) forgiven for never ...
Fifty years ago, Helga Guinness met an Italian woman at a bus stop on a Greek island and mentioned she was looking for a house. A few months later, Guinness ...
If you make a mistake when learning to speak Italian, I’ve found the locals are generally very encouraging in their correction. Only once have I find it awkward, the time ...
After a certain age, Christmas can lose a bit of its magic. Fortunately just as the magic begins to vanish, it becomes legal to drink and we can put the sparkle back into the season. Special sparklings Italy makes spectacular sparkling wines. Champagne is always a delight, as delicious
Making wine is complicated. As Antonella D’Isanto, co-owner of I Balzini winery along with her husband Vincenzo, explains, that lovely potion in your glass is the fruit of labor, passion, skill, technology, and, well, fruit. Here, I share the process as she revealed it to me. &
Of all tourists, wine tourists are among the most discerning, and Italy is hosting more and more of them, from all over the world. According to a report prepared by market researchers, Censis, and presented at Bit 2010, the International Tourism Exchange in Milan, approximately six million wine lovers toured
At the source of the Arno River lies Il Borro, a striking medieval hamlet whose origins stretch back more than a thousand years, when the area was once dominated by a fortified castle. Named for its deep yellow gorges, or borri, the region was originally inhabited by the Etruscans and
The current popularity of ‘enogastronomy’- wine and food related tourism – may seem new but Italian wines have been drawing visitors since the Greeks overran the Etruscans. However, unlike food, wine in Italy in the last 35 years has changed dramatically. Around that time, Italians began to realize
From August to November, from Italy’s mountainous north to its sunniest south, the grape harvest is under way. Once the legal time to harvest has begun – and this date varies by region – winemakers and agronomists try to select the exact moment when their grapes are perfectly
I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain” … As a words person if I were to pick out a piece to pair with this month’s ...
