Italian Wine Club: March 2019
We return to Abruzzo ten years after the April 9, 2009 earthquake which devastated a wide part of the region, bringing death to and damaging L’Aquila, the region’s capital, to the degree that today the...
Italian Wine Club: February 2019
Dear Italian vino aficionados, After feedback from a number of you, I have decided to return to the original format of our club with a regional profile each month; however, since I’ve already written...
Italian Wine Club: January 2019
Italian Wine Club ~ La Dolce Vite January 2019 Buon Anno to you all. Last month I wrote that we were changing the format of the club a little, no longer with a strictly one-region...
Italian Wine Club: December 2018
Italian Wine Club ~ La Dolce Vite Veneto | December 2018 This year we are ending our wine trip in Veneto, in the northeastern part of Italy. This region consists of seven provinces: Verona, Vicenza,...
Italian Wine Club: November 2018
Italian Wine Club ~ La Dolce VitePuglia, November 2018 Puglia, Apulia for the Romans, the origin of which comes from the Latin word apluvia, means “without rain,” appropriate for this thirsty, dry, red-earth territory. This...
Italian Wine Club: October 2018 Notes
Italian Wine Club ~ La Dolce Vite Valle d’Aosta October 2018 Tucked into the northwest corner lies the smallest Italian region, Valle d’Aosta located between the French and the Swiss Alps and Piemonte. Aosta...