WTI Magazine #22    2014 Mar, 21Author : Vino OK      Translation by:   One of the first documents that witnesses and mentions about this famous wine is undoubtedly represented by its classification, as originally drafted in 1398. Looking at these documents, we can understand how the Chianti was a white wine, it did not have a large diffusion...

  WTI Magazine #60    2015 May, 15Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com      Translation by:   The Marche is a region in central Italy. Pronounced "lay mark-ay", the Le Marche region borders Emilia Romagna to the north, Umbria to the west and Abruzzo to the south and barely touches the regions of Tuscany and Lazio. The Ma...

A big name in Italian food in the Chicago Southland has opened its first location in Northwest Indiana. Carla Bolin, whose family ran the Angelo's restaurants in the south suburbs for many decades, picked up the family business by opening Angelo's Fresh Markets in Flossmoor and Tinley Park in recent years. Now she's opened her third Italian-th...

The sixth-annual Taste of Italy, a cultural-gastronomic event to benefit the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA), will take place on October 11th in downtown Los Angeles.   Taste of Italy showcases over fifty of the region's best restaurants and Italian and California-Italian wineries, as well as music entertainment, cooking demon...

Carla Bolin, who operates two Angelo's Fresh Markets in the Chicago suburbs, opened a third Italian specialty boutique grocery/restaurant called Angelo's Prime in Schererville, Ind. The market carries "the best of everything," according to a local report, which includes truffle butter, prosciutto, wild caught fish, fresh-baked Turano bread, ol...

By Diana Goodman   As wine collectors look beyond Bordeaux and Burgundy, their attention is turning to Italy's finest.   Classics from Barolo to Brunello and Bolgheri – not forgetting the dried-grape wines of Valpolicella – have long been on the lips of wine lovers worldwide. But with the prices of France's top selections soaring beyo...

South Italy Imports has one foot in the Lehigh Valley and the other in Italy. The wine and food importer started in 2001 and now has a presence in Nevada, California, New York and they're applying to be a distributor in Delaware. Regardless, you'll still find the home base in Hanover Township.   "To get a wine out of Italy, (vineya...

by Mark Glover Sacramento boasts of its farm-to-fork reputation, but an Italian delegation visiting the city on Monday hopes that residents also will be receptive to a taste of Tuscany. About a dozen members of a trade and business delegation from the city of Lucca in Italy's famed Tuscany region showed off their wares Monday morning at Adamo...

Famiglie dell'Amarone, Vinitaly International e Simei (Salone internazionale macchine per enologia e imbottigliamento) protagonisti dell'evento esclusivo che si è tenuto il 1 ottobre all'Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington DC.   Oltre 300 gli operatori, tra trade e stampa, accreditati all'appuntamento dedicato alla promozione del vino italiano...

E. & J. Gallo Winery (Gallo) announced today that it has been awarded the exclusive rights to distribute Italy's Allegrini wines in the United States beginning April 1, 2014.   "We have a real opportunity to more successfully compete in the luxury wine segment. Allegrini is a great addition to our portfolio and we're thrilled to have the...