Wine

Open Cellars

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

13 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…

13 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…

13 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 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…

14 years ago