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Vino vs. The Volcano Sicily is one of the biggest international wine success stories of the past quarter-century, and small wonder. The largest island in the Mediterranean, it boasts approximately 135,000 hectares of vineyards –...
Bottle Episode [Extremely John Cleese voice] And now for something…completely different. Unlike the Spanish Inquisition, everyone expects the Italian Wine Club. Our chief weapons are clarity and regularity - join the club; get 2 Italian...
Calabria is, in many ways, the opposite of Veneto, our destination last month. Rugged, ancient and complex, it is the southernmost region in mainland Italy, less than two nautical miles from Sicily, and the least...
VENETO Last month I discovered, by accident and to my great surprise, that in seven years exploring the wine regions of Italy, this club has somehow never made it to Veneto. Which is weird; its...
LE MARCHE As the least heralded region in a North Central Italian triumvirate that includes Tuscany and Umbria, Le Marche sometimes gets lost in the stampede of visitors thronging its famous neighbors. It’s also easy...
LIGURIA Though arguably most associated with France, the Riviera - as concept, aspiration, and actuality - originates in Liguria, in northwestern Italy. The word itself is Italian for “coastline,” and was first applied to the...
