May 2, 2013 – Cortona, Tuscany Wine, Dine & Shine, Cortona’s premier wine tasting series kicked off the season in Piazza Repubblica featuring Podere Sapaio from Bolgheri, a region located near the sea on the Mediterranean side of Tuscany. Massimo Piccin of Podere Sapaio greeted everyone alongside Marco Molesini at the free wine tasting in front of the Molesini Wine Shop.  Featured wines in the Piazza poured by Massimo and...

The city of Copenhagen was host to a very special group, our very own Strada dei Vini Cortona on the the 1st and 2nd of March! The local newspaper Politiken spread the word and more than 1500 tickets were sold in advance for the two day event.  I think that probably at least a good 200o people attended.   The space was ultra modern with the theme being wine, Cortona products and tourism.  Of course most people were there for the wine. Not...

The new vintages of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano have been released and the highly anticipated preview party in Montepulciano, the birthplace of Vino Nobile, is this weekend, February 16, 17 and 18! The new vintages being released are the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano 2010 and the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano Riserva 2009. The Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has a little more information on their website about the Anteprima del Vino...

Tuscany Taste, a new brand for promoting Tuscan wines to foreign markets is hosting a contest! Download their logo from the link above, print it out in color and take a “creative” photo with it somewhere in the world and upload it to their Facebook page.  They say they will “reward you for your creativity”.  Who knows what that will be but it sounds fun and hey, feel free to share it on our tuscanWINEnotes Facebook page...

Every February the new vintages of Brunello are released in Montalcino and to say it is a big deal is an understatement!  This year the 2008 Brunello and the 2007 Riserva Brunello are finally making their debut. I hear through the grapevine that the 2008(s) are decent but the 2007 Riserva(s) are exceptional.  I look forward to tasting ALL of them myself! Yes, I am going!  By bus, from Cortona with a group of most probably other rowdy wine...

Could the last wine tasting dinner of the season have been any more fabulous? I don’t think so. Hosted by Molesini Wine Shop and Del Brenna Jewelry, the free wine tasting in the piazza was already teetering on over the top.  As we arrived late to the party as usual, they were lighting a couple of lanterns at the tasting, creating quite the spectacle, but in a-very-amazing-ambiance-at-dusk kind of way! There was a lovely line up.  Biserno,...