Tagged: wine

White Truffle Festival (San Miniato)

Autumn 2012, Food Festivals in Tuscany

Wine, truffles, chestnuts, porcini mushrooms and figs are some of the pleasures of the Tuscan table every fall. This autumn there are many different festivals around the region that celebrate[...]

Tortelli pasta with meat sauce

In the name of food! Food Festivals in Tuscany

  If you’re planning to visit Tuscany and you want to better understand local culture, have delicious and authentic food for a reasonable price, buy local products and maybe enjoy shows, concerts[...]

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Rocca di Frassinello

Designer Cellars in Tuscany

  Cantina Antinori (San Casciano):  an innovative work created by the Archea Associati architectural studio, in seven years of work. The structure of the cellar is based, conceptually, on profound and[...]

Open Cellars May 29th 2011

In Italy on May 29th a huge wine event takes place. Large estates and small farms open their cellars and whoever wants to stop by, can walk in and do[...]

Thoughts on Wine

In an extremely crowded Pavillion 8, in the exact middle of it, stands the Tuscany Regional booth. This is where I am, at the intersection of bright red carpets that turn into a river[...]

aleatico

Elba’s Aleatico

A grape bunch of history Known since antiquity as “Liviatico” or “Liatico” this grape varietal of probable greek origins arrives in Elba thanks to the Romans.  Centuries later,  during the[...]