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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...
NEW ZEALAND On September 25, 1819, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, chaplain to New South Wales in Australia, planted a grape vine in the soils of Stone Store, KeriKeri in the Bay of Islands at the...
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...
Every April 25th in Portugal is Dia da Liberdade (Freedom Day), a national holiday commemorating the overthrow of the Estato Novo (New State) regime, after nearly half a century of increasingly moribund but still lethal...
ABRUZZO We spent last month in Trentino- Alto Adige, adjusting to the altitude and confusing appellations. So April seems like a good time to continue our climb in the likewise alpine Abruzzo, about 700 kilometers...
TOSCANA This month we are continuing our gambol through central Italy with Tuscany. A rough triangle covering 9,000 square miles of “relentlessly undulating” (per Jancis Robinson) countryside, it’s responsible for Pisa’s lean, the Renaissance (via...
