Join Dick Rosano for a Wine Tour of Piemonte and The Alba Truffle Festival!

This fall, author and wine expert Dick Rosano and Chef Stephen Sands will lead a small group of food and wine adventurerers on a tour through the Piemonte region of Italy.  Want to join them?  Here are the highlights of the 10-day boondoggle: Numerous degustazioni wine sampler lunches and cantina visits with local hosts under Dick’s [...]

Sartori Wines at Café Milano

Verona is best known for Juliet’s trist with Romeo, a youthful “indiscretion” that culminated in her fatal pact with a poisoned lover. Perhaps Romeo could have saved them both if he had sipped one of their hometown’s fabulous wines instead of that vial of poison. Andrea Sartori leads one of Verona’s great wine estates, a [...]

Rare Italian Reds

The label “rare Italian reds” could refer to the magnificent Tuscan wines from the late-1970s, or the 1980s masterpieces of Piedmontese winemakers like Angelo Gaja and the Ceretto family. Or it could refer to non-indigenous grapes like Cabernet and Merlot that Italian vintners have incorporated into their ever-growing portfolio of fine wines. “Rare” not because [...]

Ferrari-Carano

Ferrari-Carano has been at the forefront of wine – and high expectations – since Don and Rhonda Carano first built their magnificent villa in Sonoma County, named the Villa Fiore. The beautiful, Tuscan-inspired villa is perched on a slight rise and draped in colorful flower beds. It overlooks estate vineyards and serves as both the [...]

Antica

Italians love their wine, and they’re not going to be restrained from drinking it at any opportunity, particularly when the time seems “just about right.” However, they also recognize that their wine is best when served with food. Piero Antinori of the famous Tuscan winemaking house of the same name knows this perhaps better than [...]

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