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Italian red wines: aging the wines

While we all run to rejuvenate with creams, cosmetics and clothing as teenagers, someone loves the passage of time and considers it as the ideal completion of his life and achievement of perfection. No, it’s not an old zen wiseman!…

There are Chianti and Kiante!

The word Chianti packs in only seven letters many meanings, emotions and ideas. Just say “Chianti” and appear the beautiful Tuscan hills with their vineyards that can be observed coming from Florence and gradually climbing among the farmhouses, Renaissance villas,…

Grappa: The last product of the wine process.

Grape skins red. In the country, you do not throw anything away! Everything completes its life cycle, there are no waste but only material to be reused better. In these days of harvest, for example, we see the bunches brought…

Italy red wine harvest: wine grapes on the road!

The Enchantment of Tuscany’s Red Grape Harvest: A Journey Through Chianti In these days, if you catch a favorable breeze around Florence, you might detect a variety of sweet, gentle, yet penetrating scents in the air. These aromatic hints originate…

The Racking: 50 shades of… red!

Just a few more days in the vineyard and then all the work of the wine makers will move into the cellar. Almost every winery is now in … fermentation. What mystery surrounds this first moment of the best italian…

Big wineries versus small ones

If you could flight, riding on some magical creature in Harry Potter style, around all Italy in this September, looking from above, you would realize the different and beautiful landscapes but also something common to the entire country: in fact,…

Italian white wine harvest has started!

In the past you would have woken up at the rooster crow, now you’ll just buzz your smartphone to open your eyes to a new day. But now as at that time, your destination these days of September is only…

These strange strange … wine makers!

Some Italian regions such as Friuli or Trentino, in north of Italy, have already started the traditional 2016 harvest, collecting the Pinot Noir grapes, the Chardonnay and the Pinot Gris; in Tuscany, in the Chianti region there are still 2…

Decanting an old wine

One of the key words for the wine tasting is “decanted”, with its verb: “to decant”. What happens when you decant a wine? The pure action is to transfer the wine from a container, i. e. a bottle, to another,…