Sicily: wine, food, vineyards, history, and landscape in pictures
2012-12-17
A photo essay from the island of Sicily Sicily is a big island, the biggest in the Mediterranean. It is also one of Italy’s biggest
A photo essay from the island of Sicily Sicily is a big island, the biggest in the Mediterranean. It is also one of Italy’s biggest
Overshadowed by Prosecco and Franciacorta in export markets, Trento DOC accounts for 12% of the domestic Italian sparkling wine market. Ten percent of its production
74% of the gastronomic restaurants (which means that the bill, without wine, is at least 45 euro) in France have organic wines on their wine
After much anguish and agony the new classification in Saint Emilionhas been unveiled. But will it stick? This time? It was already overturned four times
An interesting research report concerning the yeast that can be found on the grape skins was published recently. Italian and French researchers believe they have
An island of wine, olives, food and sunshine in the Mediterranean Sicily, the island, the sun, the wines, the olive oil, the food… The largest
Château de Chantegrive is one of the few really big chateaux in AC Graves (the other big ones are in Pessac-Leognan), with 90 hectares of
The purchase is now said to have been officially approved and confirmed: For the first time a Chinese buyer has acquired a classed growth chateau
A meeting with Sandra Tavares da Silva at her winery in the Douro Valley Far up the river Douro in northern Portugal, in a small
Fattoria Nittardi is a wine producer in the heart of the Chianti Classico district in Tuscany. Each year they commission a famous artist to design
A dark night in November vandals broke into the wine cellar at the wine producer Case Basse in Montalcino in Tuscany. The hoodlums opened all
The first thing we just have to tell you is that our new book won the prize as Best Wine Book for Professionals in Sweden
The first thing we just have to tell you is that our new book won the prize as Best Wine Book for Professionals in Sweden
During one of our wine tour trips recently we met for the first time a producer (not the one on the photo) who rents his
The cooperatives produce almost 50% of all French wines so their opinion matters. They have recently, according to La Vigne, sent a letter to the
A tasting from the Roberson Wine’s selection Roberson Wine recently launched an internet based wine shop targeting the Swedish consumer market, as well as one
Good news! We have just learned, hot off the presses, that our new book has won the award “Best wine book in Sweden for professionals”
Colombaia is actually the Italian name for a small dovecot that you often can find on the roof of old Tuscan houses. But it is
On August 30 we launched our new book in Stockholm: Wine and the Environment, Organic, Biodynamic and Natural. The book is so far only published
Tasting with an original producer of sparkling wine Recaredo is a small family-owned cava producer with big ambitions and wines that are somewhat different that
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