Forty hectares of Tenuta San Lorenzo’s four hundred hectare estate, in the countryside between Foligno and Spello, are used to cultivate the grapes for Umbria’s magnificent Sagrantino di Montefalco, a dry and full bodied red with a bouquet which recalls the scent of the wild blackberries growing in San Lorenzo’s woods.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - March 2nd, 2010
The fertile slopes of Collio, on the border between Italy and Slovenia, provide the ideal terrain for the cultivation of vines of French origin, and the production of some of Friuli Venezia Giulia finest white wines.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - January 28th, 2010
The Lison Pramaggiore D.O.C wine road: an itinerary rich in history, wine cellars, and gastronomic traditions, which winds its way through the ancient vineyards where the wine for the Doges of Venice was once made.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - December 28th, 2009
The wine road of Rosso Conero: a panoramic route which winds its way along the Adriatic coast of the Marche, through magnificent nature reserves and picturesque fishing villages, past all of the region’s most highly-acclaimed wineries.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - December 1st, 2009
Since 1832, in an ancient “baglio” overlooking the sea of Western Sicily, the Cantine Florio has been producing the Marsala wine which, in the 18th century, became one of the Britain’s favorite tipples.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - November 12th, 2009
Grape pomace acquavite, better known as Grappa, has been produced in Bassano del Grappa for centuries. Today, visitors to the town’s Nardini distillery discover the secrets of this age old drink within the glass walls of architect Massimiliano Fuksas’ futuristic ‘bubbles’.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 25th, 2009
In the cellars of Castel di Salve, right in the very heart of Salento, two childhood friends made a solemn oath: that one day, together, they would cultivate the area’s Primitivo, Nero Leccese and Malvasia Nera grapes and use them to produce some of Italy’s finest wines – wines like the Aleatico Passito, Priante and Lama del Tenente. And, some years later, this is exactly what they did.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - September 15th, 2009
In 1870, Baron Giulio Pizzini founded a small winery and started producing wines in countryside of Franciacorta, between Brescia and the southern shores of Lake Iseo. Today, in Borgo Barone Pizzini, a group of eco-friendly wineproducers make a fabulous Franciacorta DOCG, fruit of a lasting passion for wine and exclusively organic methods of cultivation.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - August 11th, 2009
Almost two hundred years in the wine industry, an undying love for the grapes growing on the Alto Adige Wine road, and a passion for contemporary installations: the art of wine making in Trentino Alto Adige according to Alois Lageder.
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Posted by ItalyTraveller - June 30th, 2009
