Around Italy after Vinitaly
One dinner in Verona…Amarone Bussola 1999 and Amarone Masi 1983
AL CRISTO RESTAURANT
Tasting at FERRARI Winery
Giulio Ferrari brought the region’s first Chardonnay grapes back from Champagne around 1900, when Trentino was still part of the Habsburg Empire. He championed the production of metodo classico wine, which is now regulated by Trentino DOC laws that require the grape varieties must be limited to Chardonnay, Pinot Nero, the Italian name for Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier—the same grapes used in Champagne—as well as the local Pinot Bianco. Ferrari produces today the most important italian sparkling wines
ColSaliz Winery
In the Venetian hinterland just north west of Venice, at the heart of the classic DOC Prosecco land, in the most vocated areas of Collalbrigo. Refrontolo and Feletto where, according to Bonifacio, local wines between the l6th aud l7th ceutury were called “precious” because of their exceptionally high quality, is our ColSaliz wine farm.
Pieve di Soligo // Veneto
Villa Zarri
Made by distilling wine produced from Trebbiano grapes grown of the hillsides of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, Villa Zarri Brandy is the result of painstaking empirical work coupled with rigorous scientific research.
The products are made following the double distillation method to assure the highest quality.
CECI Vinery
We discovered a nice bottles made by CECI vinery in collaboration with DUCATI moto
Parma
CAVALLOTTO : That’s Barolo
On the periphery of the Castiglione Falletto township, centre of the Barolo area, crowning the Bricco Boschis hill, one comes upon the Tenuta Vitivinicola Cavallotto of 25 hectares of which 23 spread of vineyards. Olivio’s offspring, Laura, Giuseppe, and Alfio continue to produce wine which is made exclusively from the estate’s grapes and from the transformation of these they obtain DOC and DOCG: Barolo, Dolcetto d’Alba, Barbera d’Alba, Nebbiolo Langhe, Freisa Langhe, Grignolino Piedmonte, Pinot Langhe, Chardonnay Langhe.
Barolo
Relais San Maurizio
http://www.relaissanmaurizio.it
A polished boutique hotel set in a stunning in a 17th century monastery. Highlights include Michelin stared restaurant, elegant rooms, incredible wine collection and a spa set in the old wine cellars which majors on the therapeutic benefits of salts. We discovered an incredible selection of fine food http://www.sanmauriziogourmet.com
The breakfast
The view
The wine cellar // Chmpagne selection
Guido da Costigliole Restaurant @ Relais San maurizio
Hand made label @ Guido da Costigliole Restaurant
Cascina Chicco Winery
The Azienda Agricola Cascina Chicco is the proud interpreter of Roero wine civilisation . It is found in the heart of the Roero and has a solid wine tradition behind it. The company came about with the purchase of different vine-yards in the most important area of the Roero. In addition to the 8 hectares situated around the historical lands of Canale (Anterisio, Coroania,Mompissano) there are now also the estates of Vezza d’Alba (Valmaggiore), Castellinaldo (Granera Alta, Bric Loira) and recently the land in Castagnito (Costa). Today the Cascina Chicco has 20 hectares of vine-yards, all of which are on hills and produce esteemed wines such as Arneis, Nebbiolo d’Alba, Roero, Barbera d’Alba,Favorita and Brachetto.
La Spinetta
Bruno, Carlo, and Giorgio Rivetti are the three brothers behind the famed La Spinetta estate, which was founded by their parents in 1977. La Spinetta has become a modern Italian superstar winery, producing some of Piemonte’s most delicious wines at their main estate in Castagnole Lanze and their newer ‘Campè’ estate (acquired in 2000) in Grinzane Cavour.
CONTRATTO // La Spinetta
Contratto looks back at over 140 years of distinguished history. The winery was the first in Italy to make vintage “metodo classico” sparkling wine. In the 1920s and 1930s, it was the Contratto bubbles that were requested by the Vatican and the royal houses of Europe. In fact, the wines were exported to the far corners of the British Empire to be enjoyed by ambassadors and colonial governors.
Since June 2011 Contratto is officially in the hands of La Spinetta, but the idea of taking over the Contratto sparkling wine production was already “planted” in 2007. For 4 years La Spinetta has been secretly making metodo classico wines at Contratto, with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes from Oltrepo Pavese. We are working closely with grape growers in that area who understand what it means to be a grape grower of quality.
Chocolate @ Gallo
Rio Maggiore // Cinque Terre
Michele Satta Winery
The soil of these vineyards, located close to the hill, was made, thanks to the superimposition of detritus carried by torrential rains and by sea-sediments over a billion years. There are therefore a richness in mineral components from the Metalliferous Hills that gives, particularly in Summer time, freshness and deepness to cultivation.
The wine cellar of Michele Satta, one of the most renowned names in Bolgheri, Tuscany is the birthplace of the event called “Semetipsum”.
LA MASSA
Giampaolo Motta, the eldest son of Neapolitan family became the “black sheep” because he decided not go into the family’s leather tanning business. His grandfather Giorgio was the only family member to support him in his venture into the wine business and thus, the top wine at La Massa carries his name. Giampaolo studied in France with renowned oenologist Emile Peynaud, working in St Emilion and Pomerol where he developed a fundamental understanding of the chemistry of the wine.
Tenute di Ghizzano
http://www.tenutadighizzano.com
Ghizzano is a small hillside village about 200 metres above sea level, located on the Tuscan coast, 40 km from Livorno and 40 km south of Pisa. The winery and olive mill are situated around the tower built by the Venerosi Pesciolini family in 1370. Amazing wines!
Panzano // CHIANTI
Dario Cecchini
The famous butcher at Antica Macelleria Cecchini in Panzano in Chianti, Solociccia in Panzano
Breakfast in the butcher
FONTODI
This lovely winery is located in the heart of Chianti Classico precisely in the valley which lies south of the town of Panzano and is called the “Conca d’Oro” (the golden shell) because of its amphitheatre shape. A genuine and characteristc “Terroir”, famous for centuries for its tradition of quality wine cultivation, thanks to a unique combination of high altitude, calcar clayschist soil, lots of light, and a fantastic micro-climate – warm and dry with a marked difference in day and night-time temperatures
We advise you to stay in one of the farmhouse and visit their Chianina cows
Orvieto
we are going to visit Martinelli Winery …
http://www.cantinemartinelli.com
Salviano di Salviano http://www.titignano.com
The small village of Titignano, today a modern estate, is surrounded by 2.000 hectares of maquis, woods, vineyards and olive yards and is located on a panoramic position on the hills between Orvieto and Todi.
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