A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Continuing on our tour of Lombard wines, today's topic is Lambrusco Mantovano. The area is on the right bank of Po River, in the lower Eastern Po valley. In 1987, Lambrusco Mantovano was awarded DOC status although the Lambrusco grape was cultivated in this area many decades before. The Consortium was founded in 2012. As... Continue Reading →
Milano. My home for 10 years, a city I still feel a part of, home to many, many close friends and dozens of work colleagues and acquaintances, site of a myriad of experiences, evenings, days. My second city really. I can't bear to watch what is happening there now. My way of dealing with this... Continue Reading →
I'm reposting this article I wrote about Alessandra from Azienda Noventa in the Botticino DOC area, in the province of Brescia. I met Alessandra in July 2017 at her winery. I had met her husband at Vinitaly in April and arranged to visit them. I gave a seminar on the Wines of Lombardy at the... Continue Reading →
Today's post is about another Lombard city under siege, Brescia. Many people have not visited Brescia but know it for the great wines it produces, Franciacorta. Franciacorta became a DOC wine in 1967 but the Consorzio was created in 1990 by 29 producers. It became a DOCG in 1995. Today they have 200 producers and... Continue Reading →
This week's Wine Wednesday post is about Cantina del Nebbiolo. I was introduced to this winery at the Barolo and Barbaresco tasting in February. Specifically February 4th. That seems like a century ago. In any event, the winery was founded in 1959. It was created by 23 members in the Roero area. The winery now... Continue Reading →
Bergamo. It's so hard to understand the pain and fear that that lovely city is going through now, although living in New York City, I fear I will soon know. In better times, when I think of Bergamo, I think of dear friends from there, the times I have visited and the wines I have... Continue Reading →
I've written twice on this blog since I came back one month ago this weekend from Italy where I attended the releases of the new vintages or the Anteprime in Tuscany. On the plane back or better in the airport, I began reading about the cases of the Corona Virus in Italy. It was day... Continue Reading →
Today I am writing about Crémant de Bordeaux even if I am not drinking it. My title is the unexpected pleasure that one finds in a Crémant de Bordeaux. I mean that in two ways, one that it's not the first wine you think of when you think of Bordeaux and two, thinking about bubbles... Continue Reading →
I have always had an aversion to this day because I think women should be celebrated everyday but I know there is a larger meaning to it and that it commemorates a specific event and that women all over the world suffer great injustices and a lack of civil rights, in the most basic rights. ... Continue Reading →
This month's #ItalianFWT topic is about one of my absolute favorite topics - Italian Women in Wine - which I have been writing about for 12 years and thinking about for 15 years since I first met some of the women in Le Donne del Vino, the preeminent association for Italian Women in Wine.... Continue Reading →
