A wine blog by Susannah Gold
Today's Wine Wednesday is a marvelous sparkling wine I recently discovered from Enrico Serafino. It's an Alta Langa DOCG wine, a category I wrote about a couple of weeks ago in this post. This particular winery has been active since 1878. The grapes for these wines are harvested from Barolo, Langhe, Roero and Monferrato, Unesco... Continue Reading →
Ferraro Family Despite the domestic terrorism witnessed in our Capital today, I am continuing with my exploration of Italian sparkling denominations and wines. This Wine Wednesday is dedicated to Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG wines and one specifically from Bele Castel. I didn't know much about Prosecco from Asolo Prosecco Superiore DOCG previously so I was... Continue Reading →
Donelli Continuing with our exploration of sparkling wine, today I am looking at Lambrusco. This week's Wine Wednesday focuses on a wine from Donelli. It's a Lambrusco Amabile is made from 90% Lambrusco Grasparossa and 10% Malbo Gentile. The vines are grown on Calcareous clay. The grapes are hand harvested in September and then taken... Continue Reading →
This week's Wine Wednesday is about Rosu de Purcari from Chateau Purcari in Moldova. Purcari is an historic winery in Moldova and "in 1827, Emperor of Russia Nicholas I issued a special decree granting Purcari the status of the first specialized winery in Bessarabia." They make many wines among them, this one which is a... Continue Reading →
Today's post is dedicated to a winery I visited last year in Brazil, Miolo. It was also the first winery I had ever heard about or tried a wine from in Brazil, starting back in 2013. It always stayed in my mind because of the Italian heritage of the family. The founder Giuseppe Miolo, immigrated... Continue Reading →
Today's Wine Wednesday is about a Ciliegiolo from a winery called Fattoria Fibbiano. The winery is located in a small village called Terricciola in Tuscany. It is located in the hills between Pisa and Volterra. The winery is part of a farm of 90 hectares that also has an agriturismo or bed and breakfast. The... Continue Reading →
Today's wine of the week is a Centesimino IGT from a winery called La Sabbiona located in Emilia Romagna. This winery is located near a jewel of a city called Faenza which is very famous for its pottery called Faience. Faenza has ceramic museums, a beautiful cathedral and wonderful piazzas with loggia. Here's Faenza which... Continue Reading →
This week's wine of the week is the Valcalepio Bianco from Cantina Bergamasca from Bergamo. I visited the winery a few years ago during the 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... Continue Reading →
Many years ago, 11 to be precise, I found this winery as I made my way around the Abruzzo pavillon at Vinitaly, Tenuta Ulisse. I was reminded of the winery today as I spoke about the grape Cococciola, an indigenous variety from Abruzzo. Cococciola bianco isn’t exactly the kind of grape variety that you see... Continue Reading →
I first discovered Buttonwood Grove Winery in 2016 during the Society of Wine Educators conference. We traveled to the Finger Lakes the day before conference. At that time I tried their Vidal Blanc, a hybrid that I discovered I really enjoyed. This was a very beautiful winery and clearly a venue for parties and weddings.... Continue Reading →
