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Hi again, The last #slurpingitalian No. 2 with the wines of La Piotta from the region of Oltrepo Pavese was a great success. The shirts and wines TOP NOTCH! Taken from the IG Live hence .... PHOTO quality! We were blown away by the response we had to people buying the wines to slurp along …
#SlurpingItalian Part 2 23rd March Instagram Live at 7pm UK. Wines from Oltropo Pavese from La Piotta. All Organic and Vegan.
Ciao Amici! A few weeks ago I was invited to join a zoom tasting with Sergio Germano of Ettore Germano winery in Piedmonte, organised by Libiamo wines in the UK. I jumped at the chance, Sergio has a reputation as a brilliant winemaker. So the following week the wines arrived, a fabulous Rosato Sparkling wine, …
Hi Again. Just rewinding a few days of my Sicilia Press trip..... Sunday evening on arrival in Sicily I was met by a representative of Assovini Sicilia and told we had to wait a few minutes as there were two others on my flight. Andrew Catchpole - Editor of Harpers wine spirits and also Martin …
Hello again folks, I'm now making a habit out of this regular blog gig! I know I know about (insert expletive) time. So we're off to our final winery of the day, where we will be staying, also for dinner, great wine and then off for the vineyard & winery tour early tomorrow. We are …
Hello again and so soon! I guess in this current environment of lockdown it is an opportune time for me to catch up on belated blogs. What this unprecedented time has shown us is, that life is short and I need to make time outside of my normal (non wine life) to write lots more …
Continue reading "Sicily – Part 6 – CENTOPASSI- The Mafia Lands"
Hi Again For everybody that follows my twitter feed... and if you don't why not? @pietrosd You will have seen this bottle, (in the header of this blog) a good few times over the last few vintages. I have been a huge fan for the last 5 years of the Rapitala Grand Cru Chardonnay. So …
Continue reading "Sicily- Part 4 – Tuesday Morning – TENUTA RAPITALA"
Hi Again, After my blog on Sunday, which was a brief introduction to the wine industry of Sicily, I will now walk you through my weeks experience over the next few blogs. My group turned out to be a fantastic bunch of people from Italy, Germany, USA, Russia and of course me from the …
Hello again, Well this this is my first blog of 2020 and unfortunately due to my hectic work load the first in some time. Thats about to change starting with my whole series on Sicily, starting with my press trip last year to 16th Edition of Sicilia en Primeur. I've been travelling 5-6 times per …
Hi Folks Well actually the wine bottle was literally in the letterbox.... Let me explain.... and before you ask, it is a full size bottle of wine. I saw this idea a while ago and liked what I had seen and wanted to find out more as I was very intrigued, so the kind people …
Continue reading "The wines in the POST & Its saving the planet!"
