The Giro d’Ombra Newsletter Issue: 2017.08.18 Get personalized newsletters from us on delicious Italian wines, tasty Italian food & Italy travel tips, delivered right to your Inbox SUBSCRIBE Ciao! Welcome to this week’s Giro d’Ombra (here’s how you say it), a quick shot of Italian wine, food & culture to get your weekend off to […]
credit The Cinque Terre (how to say it), literally “the Five Lands” that includes the towns of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso, are a string of rustic villages clinging to the rugged Italian Riviera in eastern Liguria. Over 1 million visitors flood the 5 towns each year to swim in the warm Mediterranean water, hike between […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Getting Cinque Terre wines to the USA is nearly impossible. Until now. This Cantina Cinque Terre Bianco (how to say it) normale wine is the Co-op's base level wine that Cinque Terre fans know and love. If you've dined at one of the tasty […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Getting Cinque Terre wines to the USA is nearly impossible. Until now. Cinque Terre (how to say it) fans will swoon over this one. After working some magic, I've arranged to fly over just a few cases of the Cinque Terre Co-op's delicious […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA EXPECTED AVAILABILITY: DECEMBER 2017 This wine is on back order and expected later in 2017. Add yourself to the wait list to be notified. Getting the uber-limited Cinque Terre Sciacchetrà to the USA is just this side of impossible. Until now. Cinque Terre […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Getting the uber-limited Cinque Terre Sciacchetrà to the USA is just this side of impossible. Until now. Cinque Terre (how to say it) fans will swoon over this one. If you’ve been to Vernazza, Monterosso, or one of the other 3 towns, you […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Getting Cinque Terre wines to the USA is nearly impossible. Until now. Cinque Terre (how to say it) fans will swoon over this one. After working some magic, I've arranged to fly over just a few cases of the Cinque Terre Co-op's delicious […]
The Cinque Terre (how to say it), literally “the Five Lands,” is a string of five rustic villages clinging to the rugged Italian Riviera in eastern Liguria. The only practical way into and out of the 5 tiny towns is by train, giving the area a secluded feeling far from the pressures of our modern […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Imagine dining on the breakwater in Vernazza along the Cinque Terre. You’re eating fresh fish just caught in the briny Mediterranean, enjoying some herby trofie al pesto, and drinking the local vino. This is that vino. My yearly tradition continues with fresh bottles of […]
The Giro d’Ombra Newsletter Issue: 2017.09.02 Get personalized newsletters from us on delicious Italian wines, tasty Italian food & Italy travel tips, delivered right to your Inbox SUBSCRIBE Ciao! Welcome to this week’s Giro d’Ombra (here’s how you say it), a quick shot of Italian wine, food & culture to get your weekend off to […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Imagine dining on the breakwater in Vernazza along the Cinque Terre. You’re eating fresh fish just caught in the briny Mediterranean, enjoying some herby trofie al pesto, and drinking the local vino. This is that vino. My yearly tradition continues with fresh bottles of […]
This might surprise you. By answering just a few questions about foods you like, how you take your coffee, and whether you like opera, it's possible to predict which Italian wine you love most. And 9 times out of 10, the prediction will be spot on. How can that be? Well, it ends up that […]
One of the best ways to experience Italy & her culture is by sitting down for a meal in an authentic Osteria and sampling the local cuisine. Forget what you know about “Italian food,” the Italians don’t think of their cuisine that way. American travelers in Italy are shocked to discover that there’s no such thing […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Imagine dining on the breakwater in Vernazza along the Cinque Terre. You're eating fresh fish just caught in the briny Mediterranean, enjoying some herby trofie al pesto, and drinking the local vino. This is that vino. Getting wine from the Cinque Terre area is […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: DIRECTLY IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR Imagine dining on the breakwater in Vernazza along the Cinque Terre. You're eating fresh fish just caught in the briny Mediterranean, enjoying some herby trofie al pesto, and drinking the local vino. This is that vino. Getting wine from the Cinque Terre area is nearly impossible, but […]
The mornings are crisp. Daylight bestows a warm glow on everything, and shadows now have soft edges. We’re past the point of equal day and night, and the evening sunset seems to come all too soon. The vendemmia (grape harvest) has finished for most wineries, and the grape juice is busy transforming itself into youthful […]
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How do you pronounce Prosecco Valdobbiadene? How about Amarone della Valpolicella? Italian wine names can sometimes befuddle wine lovers. Even I have to slow-down-and-sound-it-out when I come across new regional wine names that don’t just roll off the tongue. Take heart, learning how to pronounce the most common Italian wine names is pretty straightforward if […]
Ciao from bustling London! I’m smack dab in the middle of my busy Fall travel season, in-transit and taking a break to write to you about changes I’m making to my Wine Journal updates. These are good changes. I think you’ll like them. Please read on. Passion with a purpose. This last July while tooling […]
Vernazza is filled with inexpensive affita camere (rental rooms) with varying levels of quality and cleanliness. If you prefer not to gamble with your lodging while in the Cinque Terre, check out Gian Battista’s 4 rooms near the tower just off Piazza Marconi, the main square on the breakwater. Gian Battista’s rooms are clean, offer wonderful […]
