A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Today's Italian indigenous grape variety is Nocera which hails from Sicily. The flag above is called the Trinacria and is the Sicilian flag. The three legs symbolize the space of the Sicilian island and the red and yellow sections, Palermo and Corleone, respectively. Those two cities were crucial in the fight against foreign rule -... Continue Reading →
This week's indigenous variety is called Nigra and is a cross between Merlot and Barbera created by Italo Cosmo in the 1960s in Conegliano. The idea was to increase the acidity in Merlot which at times has a lack of it. It is only grown on some hectares around the city of Treviso. It is... Continue Reading →
Today's post is about some of the wonderful choices of wines from Lake Garda that you could pair with your holiday meal for Thanksgiving. The panorama is very large and one that is close to my heart. I've work with the Lugana DOC for a few years now and of course, I recommend their wines... Continue Reading →
My travels around Italy in search of indigenous grapes continues and once again, we are in Sardinia, a place I love. This week's grape is called Nieddu Mannu Nero and it comes from around Caligari. A rare grape, it is one of about 150 minor varieties that grow in Sardinia and are being studied. It... Continue Reading →
This week's Italian indigenous variety is called Nieddera Nero and it hails from the island of Sardinia. It grows in the provinces of Cagliari, Nuoro and Oristano. It is used to make both red still and semi-sweet wines and also rosé. I have never had a wine made with this variety nor have I visited... Continue Reading →
Today's Monday Musings are about consumer tastings. Last weekend I went to the American Wine Society and hosted two seminars - one on Vermentino and one on Wines from Lombardy. We had a pretty enthusiastic crowd that asked many good questions and gave me a lot of information that I hadn't expected such as where... Continue Reading →
This past weekend while hosting a seminar on wines made with Vermentino, I felt enormously pleased to be able to present one from Lodi, California thanks to Uvaggio, owned by industry insider Jim Moore who very kindly shipped me his wines. The seminar folks like the wine and were excited to try one from the... Continue Reading →
This week's Italian indigenous variety hails from the region of Piedmont, near the city of Torino. It is called Neretto di Bairo and it's a local red variety that is used in the blends allowed Valsusa DOC and Pinerolese DOC. It brings full body and color to a blend but little alcohol. The great website... Continue Reading →
I'm so looking forward to tomorrow's Twitter Chat with the Italian Food, Wine & Travel Gang. This month, Gwen from WinePredator hosts our Italian Food, Wine & Travel group. Our Twitter chat will pop up on Saturday, October 6, 2018 from 10:00 – 11:00am CST. Look for our hashtag, #ItalianFWT and well as the hashtags... Continue Reading →
