The “sun – kissed red wines”
Apulia is predominantly flat, with vast plateaus and low hills which reach all the way to the sea. Vineyards occupy a sizable portion of cultivable land. Viticulture has deep historical
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The Franciacorta on Business class
From January, Franciacorta will be the ambassador of Made in Italy wines on board of the ‘Magnifica’, the business class of Alitalia. To identify this new synergy between two important
‘Cliffs of Wine’
Today the wine of Valtellina is a symbol, abroad too, of one of the most beautiful lands of Italy characterized by vertical wine growing, and a heritage of a century
Torcolato, a sweet-not sweet wine
‘Torcolato’ is a DOC (Guarantee of Origin) wine of Breganze, a DOC area that extends for 15 km in the north of the province of Vicenza, in the middle of
DOP Genoese Basil: the excellent cultivation of Liguria
DOP Genoese Basil is the symbol of both agriculture suspended over the sea and a cooking characterized by ancient flavours. Its cultivation, which dates back centuries ago, in recent years
Lambrusco, “the humble Champagne of Emilia Romagna”
Thus, in the ‘50s, Mario Soldati, the famous Italian writer and film director, defined Lambrusco in his “Vino al vino”. Lambrusco – the red wine that can be more or
The wine that is ‘noble inside’
The ‘Vino Nobile di Montepulciano’ takes pride in its position as the natural descendent of centuries of winemaking history. Over time the perception of this wine has changed hand-in-hand with
“Il Franciacorta”
Franciacorta was the first Italian wine produced exclusively by the method of a secondary fermentation in the bottle to win, in 1995, the Controlled and Guaranteed Denomination of Origin (DOCG)
Mr Cotechino and Mr Zampone
Zampone Modena and Cotechino Modena are two sausages, made with pork meat, produced in a well-determined area of northern and central Italy according to a traditional recipe handed down for
Soave, a great Italian terroir-based white
The name of a wine has never been so expressive of its enological personality and deepest identity as that of Soave: elegant, harmonious and supple. Evidence of wine-growing in the
