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Art and Grape Harvest Celebrated at Sofitel Wine Days 2023 in Rome

As the last grape harvests from vineyards are wrapped up for the year and the berries are safely fermenting in their vessels, Sofitel Wine Days once again celebrates another year of great wine. This year’s celebration is combined with visual art dedicated to wine by Gilbert Bages. Bages is a wine photographer and a former winemaker from the Penedes wine region of Spain. He is … Continue reading Art and Grape Harvest Celebrated at Sofitel Wine Days 2023 in Rome

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Center, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

I Ciacca Winery of Picinisco: The Success Story From Scotland to Italy with an Ancient Grape Called Maturano

We all follow the paths that life has led us through, but sometimes, when we have reached the apex of the voyage, we wonder about the past, the things that we didn’t pass through while staying on the route we routinely followed. It’s a gnawing feeling called nostalgia. Sentimentality can lead to a whole world of possibilities. Consider it another calling for living the dream … Continue reading I Ciacca Winery of Picinisco: The Success Story From Scotland to Italy with an Ancient Grape Called Maturano

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Italian Wine Labels, North, Wine Labels, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

The Pink Wines of Bosco del Merlo Symbolize Life in Rosè, A Commitment to Fight Against Breast Cancer

There’s never enough pink especially in summer and while the Barbie craze is going on. So let’s think pink! But Bosco del Merlo is not going with the flow of the current pink trend. Their pink theme has a motive, a very important one for that matter, and had been in place for a long time. Bosco del Merlo is one of the wine estates … Continue reading The Pink Wines of Bosco del Merlo Symbolize Life in Rosè, A Commitment to Fight Against Breast Cancer

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South, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Marchesi Mazzei, The Historical Tuscan Winemakers Create Their Sicilian Identity at Zisola Estate in Noto

Sicily, an enchanting land rich in history and culture, has captivated Filippo and Francesco Mazzei, whose family has been dedicated to winemaking for six centuries. True to their family’s legacy of passion and deep commitment to winemaking in Tuscany, they set forth to another incredible journey outside their region more than twenty years ago, this time to the southernmost tip of Italy. After a long … Continue reading Marchesi Mazzei, The Historical Tuscan Winemakers Create Their Sicilian Identity at Zisola Estate in Noto

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North, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Custoza DOC: How Well Do You Know This Venetian White Wine?

With numerous designated wine denominations in the Veneto, Custoza DOC tends to be overshadowed by its counterparts in the northern Italian region. In numbers, there are 14 DOCGs and 30 DOCs in the region which show how good the territory and its climatic conditions are for viniculture. Custoza is actually a small historical hamlet of roughly a thousand inhabitants. It is located in the southeast … Continue reading Custoza DOC: How Well Do You Know This Venetian White Wine?

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Center, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

What is Roma DOC? When in Rome, Discover the Latest Wine Denomination of Lazio

Being more than two thousand and seven hundred years old, Rome continuously lives as an ancient city rich in layers of history. The culture of wine has always had importance in the ancient Roman civilization. The origin of the production of wine dates back to the Etruscan settlements and the ancient Roman Empire. Wine has always been a part of life on the table, as … Continue reading What is Roma DOC? When in Rome, Discover the Latest Wine Denomination of Lazio

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The Sustainable Wine World of Carpineti Terrae, Taste and Experience it in Cori

Marco Carpineti is a household name for wines of excellence in the Lazio region most especially their Kius, the sparkling wine obtained from the classic method made from the indigenous grapes of the territory, Bellone and Nero Buono. From a small agricultural land in Cori owned by Marco Carpineti’s ancestors, it has grown into a 500-hectare activity producing some of Italy’s finest wines procured from … Continue reading The Sustainable Wine World of Carpineti Terrae, Taste and Experience it in Cori

Rowena Dumlao
South, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Salento Wines of Cantina Fiorentino: Products of Sustainability in the Vineyards and in the Cellar

Pierantonio Fiorentino had a visionary project in mind when he bought the historical Valle dell’Asso Winery from Gino Vallone in 2016. Being an entrepreneur from Salento involved in the renewable energy industry, he also maintains a strong interest in agriculture. He wanted to put his knowledge in energy to a sustainable wine production tied by his boundless love for his territory. Philosophizing the fundamental things … Continue reading Salento Wines of Cantina Fiorentino: Products of Sustainability in the Vineyards and in the Cellar

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North, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

La Colombera of Piedmont: Expressions of Timorasso with Derthona and Il Montino at Colli Tortonesi

Elisa Semino, an oenologist who was a former student of Attilio Scienza, one of the most authoritative international academics on oenology, is among the young winegrowers of Colli Tortonesi who has set the pioneering goal of the recovery of the Timorasso grapes in the 1990s. Together with her father Piercarlo and brother Lorenzo, she guides their winery, La Colombera in Piedmont. They have set themselves … Continue reading La Colombera of Piedmont: Expressions of Timorasso with Derthona and Il Montino at Colli Tortonesi

Rowena Dumlao
South, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Cantine Tommasone: Family Tradition of Winemaking Since 1870 in the Italian Island of Ischia

Most probably you haven’t heard of Ischia because it is always overshadowed by Capri, its glamorous and most tourist-trodden sister island in the Gulf of Naples. Then there’s a second one, Procida, equally small and silent too but it recently got a lot of attention because it was named Italy’s Capital of Culture in 2022. Ischia, the third island sharing the same waters in the … Continue reading Cantine Tommasone: Family Tradition of Winemaking Since 1870 in the Italian Island of Ischia

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Haute Cuisine Blends with White Art at Family-Owned Casa Mazzucchelli in Bologna

Seventeen kilometers to the south of Bologna, one of northern Italy’s gastronomic and cultural cities, lies Sasso Marconi. Here, surrounded by a panorama of countryscape, the green hills of Bologna and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennins, sprawls Casa Mazzucchelli, an elegant relaxing structure that beckons you to go in and enjoy the hospitality of the Mazzucchelli family with siblings Massimo in the dining room and Aurora in … Continue reading Haute Cuisine Blends with White Art at Family-Owned Casa Mazzucchelli in Bologna

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Center, Events, Italy, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Native Vine, The Ciliegiolo of Maremma and Other Parts of Italy

Having a past of just being a blending grape, Ciliegiolo has proven to be a grape much worthy of taking a leading role in being vinified alone. In celebration of the grape’s proven outstanding capacity in its monovarietal vinification in some DOC and IGT wines, the consortium, Consorzio Tutela Vini della Maremma Toscana, has organized the first edition of highlighting the variety that took place … Continue reading Celebrating the Rediscovery of a Native Vine, The Ciliegiolo of Maremma and Other Parts of Italy

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Center, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Carpineto, Producer of Renowned Tuscan Wines Creates a 4-Hectare Oasis for the Bees

When wine is the sentinel of biodiversity and ambassador of respect for the planet, a concrete action for the care of the environment is what we want to here. Here is a story of an alliance when a winegrower becomes a beekeeper. Antonio Mario Zaccheo, co-founder of Carpineto in 1967 with Giovanni Carlo Sacchet, gives life to BEEdrome, a 4-hectare oasis of happiness to agriculture. … Continue reading Carpineto, Producer of Renowned Tuscan Wines Creates a 4-Hectare Oasis for the Bees

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Italian Wine Labels, South, Wine Labels, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

Pacienza Apicoltura Brings Back a Thousand-Year Old Historical Drink of Honey and Wine

For twenty years, the Pacienza family has always been involved in beekeeping and measured with great success. Now on its third generation, brothers Luciano and Angelo Pacienza have stepped up with their ideas. It’s a family with a long history of apiculture in Pollino National Park in Altomonte in the southern Italian region of Calabria where they follow nomadic beekeeping techniques for the production of … Continue reading Pacienza Apicoltura Brings Back a Thousand-Year Old Historical Drink of Honey and Wine

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Center, Events, Italy, Wineries, Wineries in Italy

A Territory Between the Gran Sasso and the Adriatic Sea: 20 Years of Colline Teramane Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

In a small viticultural territory linked historically to vinification of grapes, between the Adriatic Sea and the mountain ranges of Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga, the Montepulciano grape has found the optimal terroir for its expressive identity with the distinctive denomination Montepulciano d’Abruzzo Colline Teramane DOCG. The year 2023 marked its 20th anniversary of being given the first denomination of controlled and guaranteed origin … Continue reading A Territory Between the Gran Sasso and the Adriatic Sea: 20 Years of Colline Teramane Montepulciano d’Abruzzo

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