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Gold-digging in Piemonte
Well not exactly gold but at €5,000 a kilo the famous Alba white truffle is worth getting your hands dirty for. It's one of life's luxuries and I love them but unfortunately we usually have to make do with the black variety that are a fraction of the cost. Where to...
Dog days of summer
It was a magnificent summer here with little rain much to the annoyance of HO who resorted to using our sulphur spring when the hosepipe ban was introduced. Sound familiar? Ultimately this proved too much for late summer crops but autumn looks promising. A steady...
Summer tastings- Guido Porro, Bera, Adriano and Pietro Rinaldi
Despite the lack of recent wine blogs, we have been doing plenty of tastings in between guests, surprise, surprise. As well as regular visits to some of our favourite neighbours, we have also checked out some new cantinas mainly driven by general tastings both blind...
Barbaresco a Tavola-act 2 & 3
It's hard to sit at the computer when the weather is so hot but I keep saying to myself I must write a blog. I have lots of notes, it's 30c outside and HO is doing a rain dance for the garden. But despite the occasional darkening skies and accompanying cannons from...
Bobsbuzz.com meets Giovanni Rosso, Sciorio, Icardi and Produtorri di Barbaresco
Bob Hamblyn (Bobsbuzz.com) had never visited Piemonte and seen the producers and their vineyards or even tasted their wines, that is until last month. His sons Gary and Ian are great fans and brought him over so that he could add something from the experience to his...
After the disappointing Barolo di Barolo, a great start to Barbaresco a Tavola
Barbaresco a Tavola got off to a cracking start last Friday with 20 Barbareschi 2009. We had also chosen well in La Torre del Monastero as the meal was excellent, particularly the tagliatelle with a sauce featuring our local butchers' sausage (Cordero Figli,...
Disappointing Barolo di Barolo
Barolo is a minefield with so many producers that I take every opportunity to taste whenever I can. For the past 3 weeks, every Friday, there have been tasting dinners held at various Barolo restaurants with the wines of 10 different producers each evening. Sounds...
Tasting at Pelissero Pasquale, Piero Busso & Moccagatta
Barbaresco, and of course our neighbours seem to be hitting the headlines this month and about time too. The publicity will undoubtedly help wine tourism in Piemonte, too often overlooked except by the "cognoscenti". In Decanter magazine this month, Piero Busso- Stan...
Primavera è arrivata (Spring has arrived)
The temperature has reached 30c by day, the pool has been opened but remains cool as overnight the thermometer falls into single figures. The mid teens is as warm as the water has reached.We have lunched for the first time this year on asparagus. All the doors are...
Decanter magazine agrees with me, they should have been at Herstmonceux
Hurray, this month's Decanter magazine has it's first Barbaresco panel tasting since 1999(?!) and the quote "I think Burgundy lovers should look at young Nebbiolo; the wines have a similar quality to them" caught my eye having just spent a few days in the UK. Good...
A new UNESCO World Heritage Site?
We're still waiting but hopefully we will soon be living in a Unesco World Heritage Site. The one and only nomination of 2011 put forward to Paris Unesco Commission by the Italian Government in the 150th anniversary of Italian Unity. "Piedmont Wine Landscape of...
Alberto Voerzio and Stroppiana at Herstmonceux
I have been looking for the wine of small local producers to showcase at the Herstmonceux dinner and it is difficult as there are so many to choose from. I have already decided that the excellent wines of Franco Rocca (“Albesani” Barbaresco 2007 and “Bricco Stepone”...
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