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…

The vine: our secret agent in the underground

The wine brings a special knowledge: you can notice it from the particular language that characterizes all his life, from his birth and growth in the vineyards, to its production in the cellars until his tasting, from bottles to cups.…

The right wine with the right food

Wines, food, dance: kill me softly! Once, if you had to make a long trip in a carriage or on horseback, to rest and divide the journey into stages you found on larger and frequented roads the “post houses” where…

Italian white wine: Vernaccia

San Gimignano wine – Everyone at school by a stem glass of light! Walking through Tuscany, you walk within the history and you can imagine the men dressed in medieval clothes and women from the long and intriguing garments, with…

An ancient ritual: to tie the vine

The wine is sacred… even for the uninitiated. Many religious rituals have wine as the protagonist, but it is sacred even for those without a religion: it shows us something important to remember and preserve: the harmonious union between the…

Chianti’s Anatomy

Making wine is like haute cuisine: the quality of ingredients, processing time, and even the perfect amount of ingredients that only the chef knows and is able to dose: these are the components of a perfect recipe. To make a…

Chianti: message in a bottle

If you love traveling, if you love adventure or if when you were a child you dreamed of finding treasure island, certainly you know the importance of the messages in bottles: even Sting, the Police singer has dedicated a song…

A Glass of Red Wine and Tuscan Bread

The “snack in the evening” tradition In Tuscany and Piedmont very old tradition named “sinoira snack”, literally “snack in the evening” still survives. The owners of the land offered the evening snack to the peasants in the periods of more…

The wine barrel: teacher of wisdom and life

The arrival at one of the wineries of our Tuscany wine tours is always fascinating. The countryside is colored like a painter’s palette, the dominant color is bright green, the tall cypress trees mark the private property and outline the…