Amid Hills of Wine and Truffles, a Mission to Give Fungus Room to Breathe. From The New York Times - Europe | Barolo Journal ...

Today, the venerable glassmaking company uses the very latest guerrilla marketing techniques to convince wine-drinkers that Riedel glasses can enhance the experience. It organises wine-glass tastings around the world in which audiences of 100 people or more are given a prepacked set of the Riedel glasses. For example, the set for a red wine tasting might contain glasses for Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah.

Is Portugal the Most Exciting Wine Place on the Planet Today?
It may well be. That’s why I moved there

Matt Kramer (Wine Spectator). Posted: March 18, 2014

A winning combination: Mountains and wine in Portugal. Posted by LuMont.

SOURCE:http://www.blogs-mri.org/an-unbeatable-combination-mountains-and-wine-in-portugal/

The Italian Peninsula has a boot shaped form. Where that Italian boot seems to have a knee - that’s CHIANTI!!!

With autumn upon us, it's cider time. Here's our guide to the drink of the season.

Cider has boomed, but its success may be too sweet to sustain.

The European Union wants to deregulate the copyright of registered label names such as LAMBRUSCO.

Eminent Wine Pundits chair the seminars of the 4° Executive-Master in Wine Export Management offered by the Italian University Institute FEM – Fondazione Edmund Mach.

RIPASSO means literally ‘REPASSED’. This popular technique adds extra flavor to the VALPOLICELLA WINES; and ROCK RIPASSO OF LO DUCA WINES also benefits from the RIPASSO TECHNIQUE. YES! RIPASSO is the name of a wine-making technique. It is not the name of a region, nor even of a wine making area nor the name of a grape variety. It consists in taking the skins from the just-pressed grapes used in the AMARONE WINE production and adds them to the already-made VALPOLICELLA WINES. The sugar from these skins kick-starts a second fermentation thereby intensifying the color and flavor of the compounds.

LO DUCA BROS. PRESENTS WINE IMPORTING SEMINAR TO EXECUTIVE MASTER DEGREE STUDENTS AT FAMOUS WINE COLLEGE IN ITALY