Wine

Mount Etna

It doesn't surprise me at all that among the beautiful places Italy has to offer for a wine fair, that…

11 years ago

Planting New Vines

There is no rest for the strong here! Once we completed pruning the vines, we moved straight onto digging up…

11 years ago

Winter in Italia

Brr. It is flat out cold here these days. Ironically enough, it seemed warmer in the Himalayas than it has…

11 years ago

Valeria’s Wine Bread in 5 easy steps

For lack of a better description, we’ve dubbed Valeria’s recent breads as “Wine Bread”. We call it wine bread because…

12 years ago

Creating “mother yeast” (natural yeast) for baking

Did you know you can bake bread without commercial yeasts? You can cultivate your very own yeast at home, and…

12 years ago

Sagra Dell’uva Round 2

Experiencing my second wine festival was for lack of better words: great. Having Jordan around gave me a chance to…

12 years ago

La Verticale di Gli Eremi (2000-2010) – Tasting 11 Years of Vintage

  This was such a magical afternoon. What a priviledge it was to be a part of Corrado's verticale tasting…

12 years ago

Vendemmia 2012

This year's harvest was much different than last year's. With a hot summer, we began the harvest much earlier this…

12 years ago

The Birth of New Vineyard: Ca’Liptra Azienda Agricola

Giovanni has come a long way since I met him a year ago. While he is the most dedicated and…

12 years ago

Sagra della Sangria

Sangria festival - man they really have festivals for EVERYTHING around here. Giovanni and I randomly discovered there was a…

12 years ago

Open Cellars

A weekend of beach time, pizza, truffles, and gelato wasn't enough for us. To top off the weekend, we stopped…

12 years ago

Bye Bye Wine

I forgot to mention that Hillary left yesterday morning. It's been a nice reprieve for me so far...after living by…

12 years ago

Spring work in the vineyard

Wrapping up my first three weeks here and the work has been a mixture of working in teh garden and…

12 years ago

Wine festival day 4

Closing day. We were all a bit tired. I slept pretty awful because I switched rooms and the music went…

13 years ago

Wine festival day 3

Giovanni's friends from Milan came down so this day was really fun. It was nice to itneract with fresh new…

13 years ago

Wine Festival day 2

My first morning in Daniela's house was wonderful. Being an early riser, I was up and about around 8...I grabbed…

13 years ago

Wine Festival day 1

So here we go. After work, we packed a few things and "moved" to Daniela's house for the weekend. We…

13 years ago

Day 16: Bottling

I finally felt like I was coming around when we started bottling today. We harvested, we pressed, we analyzed, we…

13 years ago

Day 15: Making Passito (dessert wine)

One of the vineyards I haven't shared with you yet is Specia. Specia is a gorgeous small vineyard that Corrado…

13 years ago

Day 12: Colonnara Wine Tour

So what we thought would be a work day turned into a great exploration day. Corrado dropped us off in…

13 years ago

Day 11: Randomness

This week has been pretty uneventful. It rained Monday and Tuesday, so we couldn't harvest. Instead we were stuck inside…

13 years ago

Day 7: Catch up time

Yesterday we went to the Adriatic Sea. Giovanni, Lisa, Hillary, and Corrado's family all went to the beach. It was…

13 years ago

Day 5: End of my first work week

Well it's certainly been a busy week here. I've made some journal entries for myself to remind me of everything…

13 years ago

Italy Adventure: Day 1 – Arrival

Ciao from Italy! Right now I'm relaxing in my little bed listening to crickets and the occasional bell chimes in…

13 years ago

It’s official! – Italy here I come!

Hello! So some exciting news...after a few e-mails and correspondence, I've been chosen and accepted a farm in Italy to…

13 years ago