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Showing posts with label Northern Italy Notebook ~ Mountain and Valley Harvest Tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Italy Notebook ~ Mountain and Valley Harvest Tour. Show all posts
Sunday, November 20, 2022

There Are No Sick Bees Here

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From the Archives ~ Nov. 18, 2007 I have been back in Texas less than a week. During the first half of November, I visited six regions in N...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Tasting Notes ~ Vallé D'Aoste

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No matter where I go in Italy, it always seems to be a new place, a landscape that shatters the myth of what people think Italy is. In this ...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Vallé D'Aoste ~ Strangers No More

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I really had no idea about the Vallé D'Aoste. It was one of two regions I had little or no contact with, the other being Sardegna. Yes, ...
Friday, November 30, 2007

Long Weekend Escape to Torino

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One of the great hidden cities of Italy is Torino (Turin). A native Torinese recently told me, “We don’t want too many people to know abo...
Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Tasting Notes ~ Valtellina

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Wines from the five sub-zones Grumello, Inferno, Sassella, Valgella and Maroggia of the Valtellina Superiore DOCG appellation. Straight out ...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Looking for Paradise in the Land of Inferno

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The e-mails were crawling like snails towards beer. I was confirming my appointment with Nino Negri winery in the Valtellina. I wanted to sp...
Friday, November 23, 2007

Chant of the Ancient Wines

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" Ancient souls must relive the wine in the time it was born in order to bring it forward." At the Merano Wine Festival there was...