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Showing posts with label Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes. Show all posts
Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Native and Indigenous Italian Grapes Series Round-up

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O ver the summer I was motivated to produce a mini series on Native and Indigenous Italian Grapes. This is a round-up of those posts, in c...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Tocai Friulano - For every funeral there is a second line (and a silver lining)

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From the Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes Series I t was April of 2007, in Verona. Colleague and dear friend, Andrea Fassone, call...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

The Unbearable Lightness of Being… Fiano di Avellino

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From the Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes Series Vesuvius in Eruption by Joseph Mallord William Turner I n flyover country USA i...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Old Fool's Guide to Erbaluce

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I nside my office there is a closet, a ramshackle affair, with whatever I haven’t yet figured out how to deal with. On the middle shelf th...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

In praise of Trebbiano Abruzzese - a short personal history

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Dino Illuminati, me and Daniele Spinelli,- 30 years ago W ithout a doubt, the one indigenous Italian white that I have the most experien...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

A short personal history of Arneis

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A rneis is an indigenous grape variety found in Piedmont that is enjoying a wave of popularity in this moment. Many people are discovering...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Surf, swell and tides on Verdicchio Island – Matelica, the monster wave

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I first encountered La Monacesca in the late 1980’s – My friends Eugenio Spinozzi and Sam Levitus (partners in Tricana) imported it into th...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Ferragosto Forever

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Onward through the fog... W hat must it be like, for everyday to be the 15th of August? To be lulled into semi-consciousness by the stea...