Italian Wine Club May 2025: Campania
CAMPANIA As we have learned from many visits here in IWC, when it comes to vino-spewing volcanoes, Mt. Etna in Sicily tends to attract the most oxygen, not just in terms of Italy, but Europe...
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CAMPANIA As we have learned from many visits here in IWC, when it comes to vino-spewing volcanoes, Mt. Etna in Sicily tends to attract the most oxygen, not just in terms of Italy, but Europe...
“Sardinia”, said DH Lawrence, “is something else.” The famous English author was so smitten with the island that, following a brief trip there in January 1921, he composed the travelog “Sea and Sardinia”, which attempts...
Over The Volcano “Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaux." Thus begins Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry’s unforgettable account of sozzled oblivion....
Wine might not be the first thing you associate with Italy’s Veneto region. That’d likely be Venice, the capital, and one of the most famous places on the planet, endlessly mythologized, celebrated, depicted - in...
Tiny, alpine, and semi-autonomous, the Valle d’Aosta is Italy's smallest and least populous region. A speck squeezed into the country’s northwestern corner, it is dwarfed on all sides by its more imposing neighbors. Piedmont, 8...
Friuli - Venezia Giulia Hate to have to start the new year with an apology, but as I did not envision finishing 2024’s IWC tour in the early days of 2025, it feels necessary to...