A wine blog by Susannah Gold
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 →
I read that Ermanno Olmi died, the Italian film director who made the film the Tree of the Wooden Clogs. I always thought it was set in the countryside around Bergamo where he was born. The movie meant a lot to me when I was first falling in love with Italy. I remember seeing it... Continue Reading →
Today's Italian Indigenous Variety is called Moscato di Scanzo. It hails from the area around Bergamo. The city of Bergamo has been a favorite of mine since I first visited it in 1998. I wrote a long post about the city some years ago that you can read here. Today’s post though is about Moscato... Continue Reading →
This week's wine of the week is the Valcalepio Bianco from Cantina Bergamasca from Bergamo. I visited the winery this summer as they were part of the wines I served during a presentation on Lombardy for the Society of Wine Educators. Bergamo is a wonderful jewel of a city, with a Citta Alta and a... Continue Reading →
As I mentioned yesterday, I am going to be writing about wines from Lombardy all week. One friend was perplexed that I said I didn't know the wines of Lombardy that well. What I meant and was perhaps misunderstood is that I don't know all of the wines of Lombardy as well as I might... Continue Reading →
I know that I am not going in order with this post but I thought I would use the occasion of a NYC-based event today on Bergamo to mention this wine. I first heard of it years ago on a trip to Vinitaly. I always start my Vinitaly days in the Lombardy pavilion and one... Continue Reading →
According to what I have read, the title of this blog was an idea that Luigi Veronelli had for his native city of Bergamo. Today, November 29 is the sixth anniversary of Veronelli's death. Both Franco Ziliani and Jeremy Parzen at Dobianchi wrote beautiful tributes to Veronelli on their respective blogs. I decided to write... Continue Reading →
