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The new generation of wine producers

Many congratulations to the Rapalino and Sottimano familìes on the arrival of Edoardo Rapalino and Riccardo Sottimano who will hopefully help continue the tradition of excellence.

Winter pruning

Fortunately the pre-Xmas snow has now cleared which means that the growers are thankfully able to get on with some winter pruning. Despite continuing overnight frosts, daytime temperatures are moving gently towards 5-10c and one would think that gloves and a heavy...

Burocrazia all’Italia

Anyone who has ever been infuriated by bureaucracy in the UK should try living in Italy. Here it has attained the level of an art form with the added benefit of providing substantial employment. Things that I previously considered easy to arrange take forever to...

The Wagner effect- a game of two halves

Wagner has never really done it for me and I have been able to get along very well without him but in the past week he appeared, uninvited,  in my life. You may already be wondering the relevance of Wagner to life in Italy and until last week I wouldn’t have...

Autumn in Piemonte

We have always found it very easy to get sucked into excess and it seemed like a good idea to supplement the vegetable garden with free range eggs. As I have written before we bought 11 young chickens that we wrestled with every evening for a few months putting them...