Fine wines, the freshest ingredients and tasty cuisine make this italian region a must-visit destination for gourmands. “When you see Basilicata, you see fields, vineyards, beautiful landscapes, you see the land as it should be,” said the film director, Francis Ford Coppola. Aglianico del Vulture is a tannic, full-bodied red wine from the Basilicata region in…
As one of the world’s best travel destinations, Italy is known for art, unforgettable landscapes, architecture and superb cuisine. But it’s also one of the world’s oldest wine producing countries. The following are 20 of the best Italian certified wine tours. Piedmont Travel Langhe Wine Tour www.travellanghe.com Piedmont Food & Wine www.piedmont-foodandwine.com Piedmont Tasting Tours www.tastingtours.it Veneto Pagus Wine…
Understanding italian wine. 3 wines to discover 1 region: Le Marche. Montepulciano (not to be confused with the homonymous Tuscan town where Vino Nobile is produced) and Sangiovese are the two grapes that are the basis of the Le Marche’s most recognized red DOCG wine, named Conero. The Conero Nature Park is a protected enviromental oasis of woodland…
A natur park where you can take a bath in a canyon. It happens in Sicily, near Taormina, Italy. What to see: Alcantara River Park, near Taormina, is scattered with waterfalls and small lakes, the characteristic “Gurne”, and with the deep and charming gorges, known as “Gole dell’Alcantara“. What to do: take a bath in the river…
Italian winemaking is simply exciting. It goes from native grapes grown by the sea in Gallura, to those which have their own roots on the mountain peaks of the Aosta Valley, a stone’s throw from the sky. Not to mention the designer wineries signed by the greatest superstars of the time from Mario Botta to Renzo Piano, to Tobia Scarpa, just to name…
Few Italian wines are as precious as Amarone della Valpolicella, according to Wine Enthusiast. Rich and powerful on the palate, perfect in its balance, it emits scents ranging from black fruits to licorice, from coffee to chocolate. A Venetian proud, whose production is permitted only to the northwest of Verona with indigenous selected vines varieties as Corvina, left to dry on racks. In one of…
Brothers Paolo and Giorgio Polegato have been enjoying a landscape consisting of 40 hectares of fantastic vineyards and flowering meadows where good insects help protect the vines ever since, getting hold of a Refrontolo hillside in the province of Treviso. And it is the heart of Astoria Vini, a historical brand of Italian viticulture, where they are harvested by hand, the grapes from…
