This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine event in Cortona on Thursday, May 8, 2014 will feature Montalcino winery Col D’ Orcia. The season has officially started! Well it really did last week but I was far away on vacation so I am kicking it off with a bang tonight in Cortona at Piazza Repubblica in front of the Molesini Wine Shop for the free tasting from 4:00  p.m. to 8:00 p.m.   And here’s a sneak peak at the menu for the wine tasting...

Yep, that’s right folks, I have the dirt on who we are featuring in Cortona for the Wine, Dine & Shine Thursday night tasting dinners this season!  Check it out and reserve early, contact me if you’d like to attend!!!  See you...

Even as I read the title of this blog post I am taken aback. Petit Verdot from Chianti? 100% AND barrel aged? What, what??? Interestingly enough I discovered this Petit Verdot at the Chianti Classico Collection 2014 event in Florence. Terreno was there with their Chianti wines and just happened to be pouring tastes of their unique Petit Verdot. It was downright startling after tasting all of the different Chianti but then after my next sip I...

It is almost time for vinitaly 2014 to start! Everyone I know is getting ready, many of the wineries are already there setting up and many are preparing to go. Yet another year I cannot make it due to other work but I’m there in spirit and just wanted to post the official map in case you too wanted to be there in spirit…...

Sometimes I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be surrounded by so many great wine regions here in Italy. Add that to being friends with local winemakers and wine shops and the result is invites to some pretty spectacular wine tasting events! Tonight would be a wine paired dinner like no other. We would be tasting 16 different Rosso di Montalcinos and Brunellos that had just been released, paired with amazing dishes at Ristorante...