Italian Wine Club October '22: Valle D'Aosta

Valle D’Aosta 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 more imposing neighbors. Piedmont,...

September 2022 Italian Wine Club- Emilia Romagna

Emilia-Romagna Tuscany may draw more tourists, but Emilia-Romagna, its neighbor to the north, mounts a mosaic of Italian cultural splendor everywhere you look. Stretching across north-central Italy, from the southeastern tip of Piedmont to the...

Italian Wine Club June 2022

Lombardia  Lombardia (aka Lombardy) crowns Italy’s central northern boundary, bordering Switzerland to the north, but its influence reigns much larger. With around 10 million inhabitants, it is by far Italy’s most populous region; Milan, the...

May Puglia be your favorite part of the boot.

Puglia Which do you think came first: the boot or the Boot?  In a sense, Puglia - our destination this month -  might be Italy’s most influential region. Stepping out from the southeastern coast into...

Italian Wine Club January 2022

PIEMONTE As many of you know, 2022 brings a major change to the Italian Wine Club - Elio Longobardi, creator and curator of the club, retired at the end of 2021. For the last seven...