Suzanne Branciforte's Italian Grapevine
Italian Wine, Food, Culture, Life
On Holy Thursday and Good Friday in Italy, it is tradition to visit the Holy Sepulchre of Jesus, but not just one... many! Usually, the magic number is seven - but as any old Italian lady will tell you, as long as it's an odd number, you're OK. (Yes, there's a veneer of pagan superstition…
Continue reading ➞ It’s Good Friday: Do You Know Where Your Sepulchres Are?
Sunday was the big Cantine Aperte event: throughout Italy, vineyards opened their doors to the curious and the thirsty, and explained their production to the masses. For those of us who were urban-bound, events like the presentation of a reprint of Arnaldo da Villanova's Trattato sui vini: Liber de vinis delighted the mind and the…
