A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Happy New Year to all. Felice Anno Nuovo. As 2015 draws to a close, we reflect on the past year and what we expect to see in Italian wine & spirits trends in 2016. Our top five trends follow, mind you we may be wrong but we think these items will become ever more important... Continue Reading →
My wine of the week this time around is a Cremant de Limoux, another sparkler that I think is worthy of note. I tried this brut version at a restaurant in Philadelphia, Petruce, a great place for an eclectic meal and funky wines The wine hails from the Domaine du Collin. Cremant de Limoux can... Continue Reading →
It's a new year and today finally feels like the first day of work. As always, until the Befana - January 6 - (the Epiphany), I never feel like the holiday season has ended. I like to start the year with sparkling wine and today's wine of the week is Undurraga Brut from Chile, a... Continue Reading →
Avvinare started as a blog about Italian women in wine, a subject that has fascinated me for many years. As always happens, you start in one area and end up writing about many other areas as well but my 2013 resolution is to make posts about women in wine one of the main series on... 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 →
I love sparkling wine in any season. I find I never tire of it and actually like to drink it throughout the whole meal. A dear friend with dreaded allergies to wine can only drink dry sparkling wines. We deduced that perhaps it is really an allergy to sugar. When fermented dry, some sparklers have... Continue Reading →
