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Italian Wine Fact: Milan Has A DOC Wine
While I’m on the subject of fantasizing, I’m having a crazy craving to be in Milan, smell the Fall air and walk around those streets I know so well. When one thinks of Milan, they so seldom think of...
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Hawaii, Pearl Harbor and Sant’Ambrogio
December 7 as we know is a day that will “live in infamy” because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This is the 70th anniversary of the attack and many survivors are not longer with us, including a member...
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Italian Wine Regions: Lombardy
As I sit in my office in New York, currently without any windows, I am traveling virtually through Italy while looking at a big map of the wine regions. I am also cleaning up as one does for Spring and...
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Vinitaly Day 2: Part 2 – Lombardy & Lugana, Valle d’Aosta & Prie Blanc,...
Vinitaly this year was blessed with incredible weather. It actually felt almost like Summer or certainly the end of Spring. Usually I try to taste whites in the morning and reds in the afternoon. I...
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Italian Regions: Lombardy – San Colombano DOC – St. Ambrogio
Today is a holiday in Milano celebrating their patron Saint, Sant’Ambrogio. I write about this ever year and always remember that today is also the anniversary of Pearl Harbor or the “day that will...
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Wine of the Week: Monte Rossa Prima Cuvee
This week’s pick is Monte Rossa Prima Cuvee from Franciacorta. I’ve always been a big fan of Franciacorta since I first discovered it in a wine class in Milan in 1997. I had never had this particular...
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Women in Wine: Lucia Barzano’ from Il Mosnel
Avvinare started as a blog about Italian women in wine, a subject that has fascinated me for many years. As always happens, you start in one area and end up writing about many other areas as well but...
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Chasselas Dorato Bianco
Chasselas is a grape variety that is mostly associated with Switzerland although it has been in Italy for decades and some consider it to be a relative of a grape brought to Switzerland by the Romans...
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A Chat With Carlo Veronese – Director of the Lugana Consortium
I have had the good fortune to visit this region quite recently – post-Vinitaly – but have not yet written about it on this blog much to my chagrin. Lucky for me, I had the opportunity to chat with...
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Winery of the Week: Ricci Curbastro from Lombardy
This Friday’s winery of the week is Ricci Curbastro, a Franciacorta producer. I have been a fan of both this particular winery and the Franciacorta category for almost 20 years. I love Champagne but...
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Expo 2015 Day 2, Streets of Milan, Milan’s Only DOC Wine
Expo2015 has opened and while this is a wine blog, I would be hard pressed not to mention the damage done to the city by those protesting the Expo. Many police were injured, protestors arrested, cars...
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Expo 2015 Day 3, Streets of Milan, the Negroni and Wine Shops in the City
Today is the third day of the Expo2015. During the six months of the Expo, there will be “Nation Days” celebrating different nations, today Turkmenistan was the nation that was celebrated. I just...
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Expo 2015 Day 7, Streets of Milan, Austrian Connection
Today is Day 7 of Expo2015 and they are showcasing the Austrian Pavilion which is apparently an open air forest of sorts. I found this quite curious and interesting and was then off and running and...
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Groppello di Mocasina Nero e Groppello Gentile...
This week’s indigenous grape variety hails mostly from Lombardy and the Veneto but is also found in a few areas in Trentino. It’s principal area however is around Lake Garda where it is a major...
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Invernenga Bianco from Lombardy
This week’s indigenous variety hails from Lombardy, from the province of Brescia. I found it mentioned in a couple of places and a white wine made from the grape called Vino Pusterla. I also found this...
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Wine Wednesday: Quaquarini Cruase
My wine this week hails from Lombardy and is called Quaquarini Cruase. It is a sparkling wine made in the traditional method in Lombardy. I tried it during Vinitaly at the Vivit section as it is made...
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La Festa della Repubblica – Toasting With Berlucchi
Today is an Italian national holiday known as la Festa della Repubblica. It celebrates theday in 1946 when Italians voted to become a republic. In Italy, most people go on holiday for a long weekend,...
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Lambrusca di Alessandria and Lambrusco a Foglia...
Lambrusco is one of the most widely discussed and maligned grape varieties grown in Italy, together with Albana and Pinot Grigio. There are many different grapes with Lambrusco as part of their name,...
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Italian Indigenous Varieties: Lambrusco Viadanese
This week’s grape variety is not the Lambrusco that most people think of when they consider that grape. It is called Lambrusco Viadanese and is often called Grappello Ruperti or Viadanese. Viadana is...
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Thinking Of Milan & Christmases Past
As we approach Christmas Eve, Christmas day and the holidays, I am thinking about Milan and all of the Christmases I have spent there. As visions of Christmas dance in my head I read thew news that a...
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