Back in November (whatever, STFU, I’ve got a toddler!), I was fortunate enough to take part in a lovely little media jaunt to Italy’s far northeastern corner, to the small (5k square miles or so) region of Collio within Friuli Venezia Giulia. For the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting the, well, highlights from that…
Category: on the road
🤘🤘 UP THE IRONS!!! 🤘🤘Join Me (and Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson) In Portugal For Wine Future 2023
🤘🤘 COME ON, YOU IRONS!!! 🤘🤘 I am beyond thrilled to tell you that I am once again joining forces with the team behind the Wine Future conference! Not just because Wine Future 2023 (held November 7-9 and themed “Breaking Down Barriers”) will be touching on topics near and dear to my wine industry lovin’…
Big Stairs, Bigger Potential (Visiting Sicily’s Torre Mora)
While Etna’s Torre Mora hasn’t been in modern operation for very long, it’s already off to as good a start as could be hoped. After all, they’re already making the very best rosé in all of Italy. And yeah, I do really mean that. Now part of Italy’s Piccini 1882, the Torre Mora property in…
A Step Ahead (A Look Inside Sicily’s Passopisciaro)
I’m immature enough, even in my 50s (!!), to have had trouble getting my head around the translation of Etna’s Passopisciaro when I visited last year during a media jaunt. Foot step? Pissing step? “Pitchpiss?” You see the travails that I have to deal with when I am scouring some of the most gorgeous locations…