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Taste of Italy, Southern California’s Premiere Italian Food and Wine Event, returns to downtown Los Angeles on September 23rd. The event offers the best in food, wine, music and Italian culture and benefitts the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles with is a 501(c) 3 charitable organizationThis year’s event will feature celebrity guest host, Mari...

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When you look at a map of Italian wine regions, you’re basically looking at a map of Italy. Nearly every acre of the country is dotted with — if not covered in — vines. Many of the regions have their own DOCs or DOCGs (designation of controlled origin or designation of controlled and guaranteed origin, basically labels that prove a wine’s provenanc...

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There are less than three years left until the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Italy’s biggest sporting event that will be held exactly 20 years after the Turin Winter Olympics, but there is already cause for celebration: the official partnership with Prosecco Doc, the world’s most popular and consumed sparkling wine, which embrace...

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Veneto is the driving force, at 627 million euros of Italian wine exported in the first quarter of 2023 (out of a total 1.77 billion euros), and continues to be for Italian wine, although growth in value (+3%) is lower than the National average (3.8%). The slight increase in value registered in the first quarter of 2023, since the other two “big” R...

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Marchesi Frescobaldi, a wine dynasty that includes such famed Italian estates as Ornellaia and Masseto, publicly announced Monday the signing of an agreement to purchase Domaine Roy & fils. The Dundee-based winery is one of the Willamette Valley’s top pinot noir and chardonnay producers.  The transaction was announced by Lamberto Frescobaldi, presi...

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Rosé wines now account for 10% of all wines consumed globally (Iwsr data) and, as always, have their most important season in the summer, thanks to their fresh, light wines that are generally low in alcohol and their thousand shades of pink that go well with the colours of a sunset to watch by the sea while sipping a good glass. The best of Italy,...

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The region of Umbria is often overlooked by its neighbor Tuscany. Located just north of Rome is one of the majestic medieval towns of Umbria, Orvieto. Set atop a hilltop made of volcanic tufo rock, this town was founded by the Etruscans. I traveled to Orvieto many years back and adored its quaintness. The quiet medieval side streets with a bustling...

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Let’s start with a cliché. The sun is finally out in grey London, and everyone is already complaining that it’s too hot. What to order? Rosé obviously. Only Provençale will do: the palest possible, with three ice cubes for good measure. Not only does it make the wine stay cooler, but it dilutes it down enough so that you can drink it by the gallon....

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Abruzzo is something special to experience. Bounded by the Adriatic Sea to the east and the towering Apeninne Mountains to the west, it is largely isolated from other parts of Italy, with a culture, winemaking and lifestyle that have been largely self-reliant, agricultural, insular and family-centric. Before my recent trip there, I researched the r...

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If you’ve been paying close attention, you might have noticed that Italian cocktails are having a serious moment. The recent revival likely started with the classic Negroni penetrating the national consciousness with its hundredth anniversary in 2019. Today, the trend has switched to espresso martinis, as drinkers are looking for that late-night pi...

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