You’d think they were giving them away to witness the annual stampede to specialty restaurants and gourmet shops up and down the Italian peninsula where customers become positively unruly elbowing each other out of the way to get served first. On the contrary, the divinely pungent white truffles of Piedmont Read more…
Soft, oozing mozzarella, rich golden, extra virgin olive oil, fresh basil, aromatic tomatoes, pungent garlic, Tuscan bread fresh from the oven, makes your mouth water just thinking of them. These are the colors, textures and flavors of “The Mediterranean Diet – Tuscan Style”. Now close your eyes and imagine relaxing Read more…
Ok, going on talking about Tuscany and Wine… As you know I’m from this region so what can I do for you today? Easy, try to help you discovering any kind of information about Tuscany wine that I consider helpful for your trip, holiday or visit you will have here Read more…
The “Wine Trails of Tuscany” run through magnificent wine-growing areas which, apart from the obvious vineyards and wineries, offer an integrated tourist package of cultural, historical and natural attractions. These trails are also a means of fostering rural development and of promoting so-called “Enotourism”, that is, setting wine production in Read more…
Granted, Provence lacks Tuscany’s “painted into place” perfection. Its beauty is otherwise — of sensual light softly colouring a life lived hard for centuries. This is a land of lavender, prettily perched villages and old blokes bringing ancestral wisdom to the game of pétanque. But such postcard slivers of reality Read more…