GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED BY AIR FROM ITALY AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Luca and Valeria Orsini are wildly passionate about pure and authentic Chianti Classico. If you're looking for the “taste of Tuscany,” this is the wine that embodies it best. From their beautiful Estate of 75 acres just outside the borgo of Panzano in […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: IMPORTED BY AIR FROM ITALY AND STOCKED IN CALIFORNIA Luca and Valeria Orsini are the husband and wife team producing some of the most fascinating Chianti Classico wines from the Panzano area. Their Petresco release is a Chianti Classico Riserva in disguise — Luca believes the wine to be so much more […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: DIRECTLY IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR The Le Cinciole Estate has 30 hectares of vines at an altitude between 400 and 450 meters, and it is located in Panzano in Chianti right in the heart of the Chianti Classico area. The estate is personally run by its vintners-owners Valeria and Luca Orsini. […]
GUARANTEED BEST PROVENANCE: DIRECTLY IMPORTED FROM ITALY BY AIR Luca and Valeria Orsini are wildly passionate about pure and authentic Chianti Classico. If you’re looking for the “taste of Tuscany,” this is the wine that embodies it best. From their beautiful Estate of 75 acres just outside the borgo of Panzano in Chianti, the Orsini […]
Husband and wife team Luca and Valeria are perhaps the most simpatico winemakers I’ve ever met in Tuscany. They generously open their home to lovers of Chianti Classico regional wines, sharing their passion and conviction for making natural wines that express the very-local terroir of Panzano. If you visit, be prepared to be swept off your feet with the […]
Junk food is here to stay. Sometimes the moment just calls for a tasty Twinkie. Or maybe a tube of Pringles potato chips. And then there’s Cheez Whiz1. Everybody eats these junky, mass-manufactured foods, even though we know that they’re bad for us. But you might be surprised to learn that all the chemical chicanery […]
I know what you’re thinking. “Aren’t New Years resolutions about making more healthy choices?” Well, yes, they are. So here are 5 New Year’s resolutions you can follow to improve your mental health, the health of the economy, and improve your mood. Heck, they might even make you happier. Yes, they all have to do […]
3 Glasses? Yes, please. Parker has points. Gambero Rosso has glasses. 3 Glasses, to be exact. That’s the top distinction awarded to some of Italy’s best wines by Gambero Rosso, a rather famous Italian journal that celebrates the hedonistic pursuit of food, wine & culture. Every year in the Fall, Gambero Rosso announces their short-list […]
Wine Selections for this Private Tasting Piedmont – Franciacorta Dossagio Zero NV – Andrea Arici $36 At the end of the 1990s, then twenty year old Andrea Arici decides to recover some old terraced vineyards owned by the family and left to the wild for years. With the kind help of his father Francis, Andrea […]
