This year is nothing like any of us imagined. Getting into the 20'ies was supposed to be the most liberating ever, and then we found out the exact opposite h...

Sicily is an incredibly fascinating Mediterranean island dropped like a ball right in front of the boot of Italy. It's separated by the mainland only by a na...

This is written in week...is it 5 or 6 of lockdown?! I'm losing track of the weeks now. In the beginning, it was just the days that were melting into each ot...

But due to global warming and limits in organic agriculture to control vine pests,

This year we decided to head over to France (from Florence, Italy) for the holidays. As some of you may know, Pierre is French from the region of Aveyron. An...

Tuscany is a fantastic place for growing olives for the production of high quality olive oil. The harvest of the local olive varietals (typically Frantoio, M...

We really love the delicious cheeses made from sheep’s milk here in Italy. Cheeses made from sheep’s milk are called pecorino, coming from the Italian word f...

Tuscan people are definitely wine drinkers. As in the rest of Italy, wine is part of the meal that is made of multiple courses (called antipasto, primo, seco...

If you are planning to join us on a Tuscan wine tour get a head start by learning the 14 most important words in Italian having to do with wine. Although our...

October is a fantastic month to visit Bordeaux. We hit the region on the last days of harvest, fermentation in the air every place we went. Very first day we...

Italian wine can seem pretty complex - so many wine regions and even more grapes - but in the midst of this Italian chaos there are some fun facts that will ...

Have you ever wondered about flavors and smell descriptors in wine? We will definitely get back to this interesting subject in future blog posts, but today w...

Bringing home the delicious vino that you taste on your journey is often the most fastidious issue that we wine-loving travellers have to deal with. So here'...

Often people will take a preference to either white or red wine. But then there's pink wine, too. "Rosé all day" just goes to say how easy it is to drink it,...