Articoli

Experience, Culture, Age and other factors influence sensory perception

Lizzy — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:37:22 +0000

Wine competitions: many wineries continue trust them implicitly, especially the international competitions where thousands of wines from around the world are entered. The judges who taste them also come from many different countries. All of the judges are professionals: winemakers, sommeliers, buyers or wine journalists. However, their personal and cultural backgrounds are different. So the question is: is it also possible that their perceptions of wine are different?

Palate Press, March 27, 2013

Carnival in Italy, a Festival of Wines and Foods

Lizzy — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:35:35 +0000

Every region in Italy is its own small world, with distinct customs, traditions — even local languages which can have different tones within a few kilometers — and their own distinct cuisines as well. During the year, various regional events celebrate the richness and range of Italian foods. The most significant occasions are holidays such as Christmas, Easter and the celebration of the saint patron of a town, a village or even a big city. And a pagan festival such as Carnival is also celebrated at the table with great pleasure.

Palate Press, Feb 26, 2013

Lucio Mastroberardino Champion of Campania Wine (1967-2013)

Lizzy — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:33:09 +0000

Lucio Mastroberardino, one of the most prominent figures in the Italian wine world, died this week at the age of 45.

Palate Press, Jan 30, 2012

2102 Redux: the Traveling Grapes, predicting our future wines

Lizzy — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:31:08 +0000

Visiting the oldest and most prestigious wine-growing areas in Europe, it’s entirely possible to run into very old vines interplanted with different red and white varieties. In these situations, the owner might not even have identified all the grapes in his vineyard.

Palate Press, Dec 25, 2012

Stop that train! save Lugana wine

Lizzy — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:28:46 +0000

Lugana sounds like a fairy tale. But a real nightmare now threatens: the high-speed train.

Palate Press, Jan 29, 2013

EWBC 2012: vino e web nei cieli di Izmir

Lizzy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:09:36 +0000

Non è solo comunicazione del vino, e nemmeno aggiornamento tecnico sulle ultime novità in fatto di software, strumenti, strategie di marketing o social media engagement; non è solo degustazioni guidate e assaggi liberi, visite a cantine e seminari sulla cultura enogastronomica del paese ospitante, workshop su vini e vitigni e sessioni sull'uso del video nel vigneto.

Millevigne, Nov-Dic. 2012

Merlot and Cabernet of Italy

Lizzy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:05:47 +0000

The history of enology in Italy is rich in fairy-tale-like stories like this one. Once upon a time, there was a young Italian nobleman who loved two things: racehorses and French wines. His name was Marquis Mario Incisa della Rocchetta. In 1929 he was finishing his degree in agriculture at Pisa University when he met a famous racehorse breeder, Federico Tesio, who a few years later asked him to become his business partner.

Palate Press, November 2012

In case of sickness, take Nosiola wine

Lizzy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:03:21 +0000

Almost all Italian wine regions have a wonderful tradition of “medicinal wine” used to restore strength to new mothers, to accelerate healing in those who are suffering from a bad flu, and to nourish old people. In Trentino, the wine to be uncorked “in case of sickness” or, as they say in the local language, “in casi di mali,” is the Vino Santo, a sweet white wine that is now rather rare; today it has a very limited annual production of less than 50,000 bottles (and those are “half” bottles, of 330 ml).

Palate Press, October 2012

Vinegar, not only dressing

Lizzy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:58:56 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was walking around a small fair of Italian foods and wines, in Northern Italy. A little crowd was gathered around a cotton candy machine that, swirling quickly, formed fluffy balls of cotton candy on the sticks. “Ah! Good for the kids, but too sweet for my palate!” said somebody...

Palate Press, September 2012

The Traveling Grapes: Predicting our Future Wines

Lizzy — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:37:59 +0000

Palate Press, August 2012