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...Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, from a zone south-east of Montalcino, is still playing catch-up....
...There was only one producer of Chianti Classico, Cigliano di Sopra....
...The restaurant is a contemporised take on the perennial pleasures of what’s kilometro zero, from the ambience (chestnut timber, cotto floors) to the food (if you can hit your ragù di cinta senese mark in...
...I also love the buchette del vino – the tiny wine windows – that you find all over Florence. Even though I don’t drink wine, I find them very charming....
...Everything is drizzled with Sicilian vino cotto (a reduction of non-fermented grape must) and Tenuta Rustica’s wonderful olive oil....
...Now, Le Donne del Vino, or Women of Wine — founded in 1988 for the handful of women then in the wine business — has more than 1,000 members....
...Then there’s Brazil’s longstanding weakness: left-back, the zone exploited by Argentina’s Angel Di María for the only goal of last year’s Copa América final....
...Because, until the corks are pulled from all those bottles of Meursault, St Joseph and Brunello di Montalcino slumbering in the faraway gloom, there’s absolutely no way of knowing if what’s inside them is...
...£9.99 Majestic Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Organic 2021 12.5%Certified organic with a fine line of lime-flavoured fruit....
...In the Dorsoduro quarter of Venice, Cantina del Vino già Schiavi (also known as Cantinone or Al Bottegon) serves a particularly loved cicchetto of tuna tartare with bitter cocoa....
...Tom Robbins Berghaus Zallinger, Alpe di Siusi, Italy Alpe di Siusi is Europe’s largest high mountain pasture (known as an alp, alm or alpage depending on where you are) — a grass-covered plateau of about...
...is a sensibly modest weight. £15.95 Stone, Vine & Sun Fattoria di Magliano, Heba 2016 Morellino di Scansano 13%L&S are not slow to point out that this Tuscan estate shares an oenologist with the famous...
...Soon after Campeol married Alba di Pillo in 1954, he sent her away to Venice to learn catering. By 1958, she was ready to take over from Antonietta in the kitchen....
...This one is usefully mature.£16.95 Davy’s Wine Merchants Inama, Vigneti di Foscarino 2018 Soave 13%Soave can be every bit as good as a fine white burgundy....
...(Website; Directions) Recipe 25ml Campari 25ml Cocchi Vermouth di Torino 50ml cava 1 orange slice Method: seek out a whisky tumbler, pour in equal glugs of Campari and Cocchi Vermouth di Torino, fill...
...Château d’Yquem Sauternes 2005, £400, harveynichols.com Luca DusiThe owner of east London vinoteca Passione Vino has a heavy schedule planned for Christmas....
...Passione Vino describes itself, on its website, as “an Italian wine shop and bar”....
...The Euro 2020 championships and Copa América, flagship national team tournaments in Europe and South America, due to be played in June have been postponed until next year....
...Sandro Fay, Ronco del Picchio 2014 Sforzato di Valtellina 15% £50 Passione Vino Dirupi, Vino Sbagliato 2016 Sforzato di Valtellina 15% £60 Passione Vino More stockists from Wine-searcher.com....
...But there are all sorts of good buys from Friuli and the Veneto carrying less famous names such as the Bonomo brothers’ lively Monte del Frà 2018 Bianco di Custoza, into which so much fruit (though not sweetness...
...There you will find Coinstot Vino, a buzzy and laid-back wine bar....
...A decade ago, an Olympic team including Messi, Mascherano, Agüero and Di Maria won gold against Nigeria in Beijing....
...Since Messi didn’t speak, Sabella usually asked his teammates Angel di María and Sergio Agüero, the player’s companions since boyhood, what he wanted....
...Nobile di Montepulciano, from The Sampler, a local shop that sells fantastic wine....
...Vino al Vino Just 20 winemakers pack into Panzano’s little piazza at this intimate festival in Tuscany, so tasting and even buying strictly organic Chianti Classicos is easy....
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