Montepulciano, Italy
10 March, 2010
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So you’ve arrived at your hotel in Rome to discover you’ve dropped your passport somewhere between border control and the check-in desk. Luckily, you made color photocopies of your passport before you left and this gets you checked in. (Do NOT tell the desk agent your passport is missing.)
Scratching a few things off the Roman [...]
Eat My Globe by Simon Majumdar is on my reading list for my flight to Italy.
I wish I had known about his blog while he was writing it!
Vineyard Row, originally uploaded by Robbin_G.
I’m looking forward to returning to Piemonte for a week long wine workshop in March 2010.
I’ve updated the route map above. Check it out!
Also, I got stuck in the hail coming out of a Siena supermarket. I took a little video.
Many have asked where I will be going for my language course. At Dante Alighieri in Siena, I will be taking 15 hours of group class, 4 hours of private lesson and 2 culinary courses per week. Here is where the school is located:
Italian Wines with David Lynch at Maslow6
Location: 66 West Broadway New York, NY 10007
Link out: Click here
Description: Join David Lynch for an in-depth tasting of the
Nebbiolo grape in its many incarnations.
Start Time: 6:30
Date: 2009-05-12
It’s true that you can generalize about North v. South in Northern Hemisphere. It’s cooler in the north and warmer in the south. Warmer climates mean riper grapes so a southerly wine will be fuller and fruitier right?
Now this is where wine starts getting its bad reputation for being complicated because now we have to [...]
I can’t really say that thought I would be spending Spring Break in Lodi, California. It’s certainly far from any tropical or exotic destination I hear most of my friends embarked upon (Argentina, Paris…) but for a person fully invested in the study of the wines of the world, when an educational opportunity presents itself, [...]
Someday I will learn how to make a living doing this….
Coming Up:
Wanderlust travel readings at Idlewild Bookstore March 4
Vinho Verde workshop sponsored by the Comissão do Viticultura da Região dos Vinhos Verdes March 5
Tre Bicchieri grand tasting of Italian wines March 6
Sommelier Journal Terroir Experience in Lodi, Amador and El Dorado, California March 9-11
Russian River [...]
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