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The vine and Caravaggio: the clever use of light

“The taste of a food, always reveals the quality of a wine and exalts it. In turn, the qualities of a wine complete the pleasure of a food and spiritualize it.” These are the words of  Luigi Veronelli, an expert…

Wine Labels & Etiquette

During our wine tasting tour from Florence you can meet in person the owners, the cellar master, the farmers who take care for the vineyards and also the same vine with its character, its needs and also… its whims! These…

The bunch is a baby to look carefully

If we look at the newborn babies, we realize the eyes of a dull and indefinite color, so it happens to everyone and it happened to us when we were babies! In fact our irises are also composed of melatonin,…

Chianti and Castles

Castles of Chianti: play chess with History! History may look like a great lady who leaves in her path, just as a sign of her passage, countless jewels that slip through her hands. Sometimes, even death and destruction fall out…

Cupid, wine cork and pleasure of life

  Perhaps it will seem strange to find beneath a headline that says “Cupid” the name of a Benedictine monk, Dom Pierre Pérignon, moreover in these pages about Italian wines, yet this French religious lived between 1600 and 1700 did…

Wine, physics teacher and architecture master

You’re going to give a good glass of wine, you’re in one of the most beautiful and richest in high quality vineyards zones of the Earth, the Chianti wine region in Tuscany: what better time for a tasting? Whether it’s…

The art of living is in wine and grapes.

  In Italy the grapes bring good luck. We use to give it away in fruit baskets at New Year, because folk beliefs say that every grape brings wealth. I wonder if you believe it! In any case, the grape…

July has a grape for himself!

In July we are in the middle of the hot season, and in the mid also of the famous “100 days” that are needed to let grape grow and mature. Among ample and shadowing vine leaves you can see the…

Dive into a glass of wine

Dive into a small pool to swim in a big sea. If you love good wine, you know that to appreciate this liquid and mysterious creature it takes one last important step that will take him from the depths of…