Cresce l'attesa per il "Gala Italia, Special Edition" che, come e' noto, si terra' venerdì 7 dicembre presso il Pierre Hotel di New York. Al Gala Italia, Special Edition" saranno presenti alcuni delle più prestigiose case vinicole della penisola fra le quali: Abraxas, Antinori, Arcanum, Barone Fini, Jacopo Biondi Santi, Franco Biondi Santi-Il Grep...

Now in its 19th season, Prosecco Spring rolls along with the Trevigian Hills until mid-June: we're talking an oenogastronomic marathon at the center of which is the prized Conegliano Valdobbiadene D.O.C.G. This year the event (official name, Primavera del Prosecco Superiore) hosts an assortment of 15 different wine shows, happening in the various...

by Mauro Battocchi   Villa Italia's founder and owner, Lorenzo Scarpone has been inducted into the Wines of Italy Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on February 4, 2015. The San Francisco-based company is a premier Italian wine distributor to California, Oregon and beyond.   Please join me in congratulating Lorenzo on thi...

The DaVinci Society of Delaware is pleased to announce that the 12th Annual Vendemmia Da Vinci Wine & Food Festival will be held Sunday, October 11, 2015 from 2pm to 6pm on the grounds of the Bellevue State Park just off I95 in Northern Delaware.   Vendemmia Da Vinci is one of the premier Italian American Wine & Food festivals on the...

Parte dagli Stati Uniti il primo tour internazionale 2014 del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Una settimana di appuntamenti e di degustazioni in varie città degli Usa per far conoscere a esperti, opinion leader e operatori del settore le ultime annate in commercio (il Nobile 2011 e la Riserva 2010), le stesse presentate di recente nell'Anteprima del...

"I think that you understand wine makers when you meet them," says Lang, a sommelier and chef in New York. "When you sit down and taste the wine in the place that it's made with the person who made it, that's as good as it gets."   When Lang first started traveling to Europe and meeting winemakers, he realized that he could see the winemaker...

Il vino italiano di grande qualità sarà nuovamente alla ribalta sul grande palcoscenico di New York in occasione della 29ma edizione del GALA ITALIA che si terrà giovedì 20 febbraio nella Grand Ballroom del Pierre Hotel di New York.   A fare da contraltare al vino sarà il cibo italiano, grazie alla presenza di prestigiose aziende produttrici...

Carlo Catani, an activist with the Slow Food movement, was at a wine show in Italy two years ago tasting some bottles from Georgia when an idea struck him: what if he were able to convince Italian winemakers to make wine using the traditional Georgian method of fermenting it in large clay vessels known as kvevri?   The initial idea was somet...

  WTI Magazine #71    2015 October, 30Author : Jennifer Gentile Martin for www.vinotravelsitaly.com      Translation by:   A winery that is rather new, being established in 2002, that I'm sharing with you today is Agricola Punica located on the island of Sardinia, also known as Sardegna. The winery is a joint venture majority owned by Sebastiano...

By Vince Rembulat   St. Anthony's Harvest Festival is right around the corner. To mark the occasion, organizers will be selling the souvenir shirts and aprons after each of the masses this weekend or at the parish hall, 505 E. North St. Manteca.   Lois and Keith Wiedenhoeft are this year's co-chairs. The shirts and apron with the...