Found this really cool thing when we were at Eataly on our trip to New York City last week (the Italian marketplace, cafe, restaurants, bar founded in Turin with locations in Italy and Japan)... an EATinerari. Right before you exit The Market check-out area onto 23rd Street, there's a rather non-descript display of these boxes. [...]
An 'around Europe' sampling of sparkling wines, my favorites, was a great opportunity at the Epcot Food & Wine Festival. With the start of the holiday season this week, its the perfect time to share more about bubbles and some to try during the upcoming festivities. Let's start with a little about how sparkling wine [...]
Within Pompeii's archaeological site, lie several vineyards reproduced from those that existed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD destroying the city. Thanks to the lava and mud, plaster casts were made of the grape vines and roots growing there at the time. The Applied Research Laboratory's staff of the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Pompeii conducted [...]
Another reason to love the Amalfi Coast ... great wines. Located in the Campania region of Italy, this region is also an official DOCG, 1 of 12 in Italy. DOCG (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garatita) and DOC (Denominazione di Origine Controllata) are the wine region standards created by the Italian government in the 1960s [...]
Marks & Spencer (M&S) London has been selling them like crazy since their June launch and this week M&S Hong Kong started selling them... Le Froglet wine in individual plastic wine glasses! The Tulip, developed by James Nash of Wine Innovations Ltd., was presented on BBC's popular tv show "Dragon's Den," where entrepreneurs pitch their [...]