A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Continuing with my exploration of sparkling wines from Italy, today is the turn of Alta Langa DOCG wines which are sparkling wines made in the classical method in Piedmont. These wines are available in the US but are still somewhat hard to find but I predict we will see more of them in 2021. Here... Continue Reading →
Chablis is one of the first wines I drank from France growing up. My parents used to buy it and they let me drink wine pretty early on following a couple of European vacations. For the longest time though, I am sure I had no idea about the grape variety used to make it or... Continue Reading →
The wines from Portland were a real revelation to me this summer when I visited Portland for the Society of Wine Educators conference. I thought many that I tried were really worthy of note. I also took a number of seminars on the wines during the conference. I learned a lot about how things were... Continue Reading →
Today's post is about Trento Doc. Trento Doc is holding an event in New York in about two hours and I am helping them with the event, so not an unbiased view but I have been a fan for many years not just the three weeks I have been involved in the project. Trentino... Continue Reading →
Italy is an incredibly beautiful country, with 20 regions, many which have Alpine wines thanks to the presence of two mountain ranges, the Alps and the Apennine Mountains which run 1000 km from North to South through the peninsula. Today, I am looking to the smallest region in the North, the Valle d’Aosta. The tag... Continue Reading →
I love sparkling wine at any time of the year but especially around the holidays. Luckily there is some great sparkling wine to be had at most, if not all, restaurants and bars. This weekend, amid much holiday fun, I had the pleasure of having a number of glasses of the Taittinger Domaine Carneros Brut.... Continue Reading →
I participated in a Snooth virtual tasting the other evening and was very pleasantly surprised by one of the wines that I tried, the Rotari Brut. I had of course seen Rotari in my years in Italy and in the US as well. This very nicely priced wine is a cuvée of Chardonnay grapes grown... Continue Reading →
Next week is Vino 2011, otherwise known as Italian Wine Week, and I will be completely and happily immersed in Italian wine once again. Before I go down that route, one that is very familiar to me and where I feel at home, I want to write about a land which feels very foreign to... Continue Reading →
