This month I completed another level of wine classes with the Italian Sommelier Association. We celebrated together in the small mountainous town of Liberi, at Sclavia Winery, with one last tasting by the fire and a tour of their cellar. It’s a relatively new winery, producing only 30,000 bottles per year, using the native vines…
December is almost gone already. It flew by just as quick as it arrived. We’ve been keeping this month pretty low key- catching up on some work, searching for a second vehicle, and letting the kid relax on the weekends. As of December 6th, Italy came out with more restrictions and a “super green pass”…
We’ve had some quite intense storms and rainfall the past few weeks, so we were a little unsure if our return to Ischia for a walk and wine tour would happen one weekend. Well, we went for it, and besides a brutal ferry ride across the rolling water, our adventure to the island turned out…
I’ve recently had the pleasure of meeting a lady named Joanna, who has her own tour company called “Glass Half Full,” and I have been joining her on some of their adventures. She is so kind and funny, and extremely knowledgable. She even puts together personalized trips, which I will soon write about one that…
We drove out to the province of Irpinia, zigzagging up many mountain hairpin turns, to reach the historic center of Calitri. An earthquake once stopped time here (the town clock tower still stuck at 7:40, the time of the quake), but it still holds some continuing secrets and charm. Under the labyrinth of historic, hillside…
Not too long ago a guy and his friends bought some land in their hometown of Formicola and turned it into a winery- just because. They knew this land had something to offer and it should be preserved. Therefore, their focus was to keep the land unchanged and natural. Il Verro is a relatively new…
Last December, after we first arrived in Italy almost a year ago, a friend introduced me to Milena Pepe and her winery, Tenuta Cavalier Pepe. These were the first wines we ordered after getting out of quarantine and I’ve ordered some basically during every holiday and a little in between- I almost always have one…
Just a short blurb to remember a Sunday out with my new girlfriends in, none other than, the historic city of Rome! We arrived on the fast train early in the morning with the only thing on our to-do list being a Japanese market (one of the girls grew up in Japan and was dying…
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