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...
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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...
Happy New Year! We start the year with two selections from islands I have never, until now, been very familiar with. Both Santorini and Sicily have long histories of grape cultivation, but many of their...
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 ~ 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 ~ 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...
Italian Wine Club ~ La Dolce ViteCalabria | September 2018 Where the Italian boot dips its toe into the Tyrrhenian and Ionian seas is Calabria. A region of many contrasts, both geographical and cultural. Here was...