A wine blog by Susannah Gold
This month, Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Cam is leading a discussion for the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers (#ItalianFWT) about sparkling Italian wines...just in time for the holidays. You can read her invitation, here. I seem to always choose to write about Lambrusco when this group writes about sparkling wine. Partly it's because I think Lambrusco... Continue Reading →
Today's monthly #ItalianFWT blogger group is concentrating on Lambrusco, in anticipation of Lambrusco Day which is June 21st. Jennifer from Vino Travels, our host, posted this primer here. I have been drinking Lambrusco for a long time. I've always appreciated it both as a stand alone wine and for pairing with certain foods such as... Continue Reading →
The theme this month’s Italian Food, Wine and Travel (#ItalianFWT) group of food and wine writers is Italian Sparkling Wines. I love sparkling wine and could drink it at every meal and throughout the meal. Today I am writing out one of my favorite sparkling wines although it is really frizzante usually rather than sparkling, Lambrusco as... Continue Reading →
I was lucky enough to see the Michelangelo show yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was one of the most amazing drawings in the show. My Mom said it looked like God breathed on the page. A perfect comment from my artist Mom. One of the things we love to do together is... Continue Reading →
Today's wine of the week is a Lambrusco that I had last week at Aldo Sohm's Winebar in Midtown. The occasion was to celebrate the success of a Spanish campaign I work on with some colleagues under her brand but I have been writing so much about Lambrusco these last weeks that I requested we... Continue Reading →
As I said last week, Lambrusco is a subject that is hotly debated online and is one of those topics that seem to have people divided into seriously distinct camps. Personally, I like Lambrusco and always have, even when it wasn't trendy as it is today. Perhaps it is the year I lived in Bologna,... Continue Reading →
Lambrusco is one of the most widely discussed and maligned grape varieties grown in Italy, together with Albana and Pinot Grigio. There are many different grapes with Lambrusco as part of their name, mostly grown in Emilia Romagna but not all. It is likely that they are related to a wild grapevine that was already... Continue Reading →
