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Continue reading →: The Mediterranean Diet is Alive and Well and Living in PugliaNot everyone living in the Mediterranean is adhering to the Mediterranean Diet these days… To the point that some people even think the Mediterranean Diet is dead! Rubbish! Plenty of Italians are still eating healthy, vegetable-base meals with olive oil, accompanied by water and wine, maybe a little pasta, maybe…
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Continue reading →: Best Wine Stars Shine in MilanIt is always nice when a nice new wine event appears in the panorama of opportunities to taste. Last weekend in Milan, on May 12 and 13, Best Wine Stars kicked off with a splendid tasting in the Museo Diocesano of Milan, which provided the perfect spring background for tasting…
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Continue reading →: For The First Time In ForeverThe world of wine offers many first times: new flavors, new aromas, new colors… Truth to be told, every new encounter with an unknown bottle is a first time. And how many first times at Vinitaly, the main Italian wine fair! This was actually my third Vinitaly, but the 2018…
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Continue reading →: A Question of Taste: Varvaglione 1921Varvaglione 1921, Puglia’s fastest growing winery, knows that it’s a question of taste, and amply demonstrated it at their event A Question of Taste held at Borgo Egnazia April 20-22, 2018. The best of Puglia was on display, accompanied by a gamma of their wines, featuring for the most part…
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Continue reading →: Roaring RoeroRoero may not be a name on everybody’s lips, but it is certainly the Italian area with the most roaring name. Try practicing the difficult Italian ‘R’ sound: Roero! Along with the Langhe and Monferrato, Roero is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Vineyard Landscapes of Piedmont. Roero takes…
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Continue reading →: Up and Coming: Young to Young Vinitaly 2018Young to Young, led by the journalists Paolo Massobrio and Marco Gatti of Il Golosario has become an annual appointment for me at Vinitaly. It’s a way to get to know up-and-coming producers, those under 40, who are doing good and interesting things in the vineyards. And it helps bring…
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Continue reading →: The Magic of Very Old VinesThe national association of Le Donne del Vino – the Women of Wine – today presented a special tasting on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the association’s founding: wines made from very old vines. That means even 80-year-old vines, and sometimes even older! You knew that some wines…
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Continue reading →: Stars and Stripes Forever!Get the party started! Wine Spectator‘s mega-event kick-off to Vinitaly, Opera Wine, is a feel-good event that showcases Italy’s Top 100 wines (which for some reason, this year were 107!) Maybe because it was the 7th annual Opera Wine? The event sported an oddly American stars-and-stripes theme. Crank up the volume,…
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AIS Associazione Italiana Sommelier, Amarone, Barolo, Brunello di Montalcino, Campania, Carlo Petrini, Chianti, Culture, Dolce Vita, Donne del Vino, Food, Juicing, Lazio, Liguria, Made in Italy, Milan Expo, mineral water, Montefalco, Morellino di Scansano, Piedmont, Pollenzo, Primitivo di Manduria, Prosecco, Puglia, Rosé, Sagrantino, Sassicaia, Sicily, Siena, Tuscany, Umbria, Uncategorized, Veneto, Vinitaly, Wine
Countdown Vinitaly: Time to Detox!
Continue reading →: Countdown Vinitaly: Time to Detox!Breaking with tradition: we are not going to talk about wine. This is the Lent period in preparation for Vinitaly: time to give things up, purify, detox, and get ready for the biggest wine event in Italy, held every year in Verona. This year, from Sunday, April 15 to Wednesday,…
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Continue reading →: Holy Cow, Holy Wine! SagrantinoIn Italian they say ‘finire in bellezza‘ and that is exactly what we did, ending up the season of new release tastings in front of Benozzo Gozzoli’s magnificent frescoes in Montefalco. Such beauty! It’s taken me over a week to recover! Just adore St. Francis driving the demons out of…
Suzanne Branciforte
has one foot firmly planted on either continent
is New York born and Harvard educated
is Italian and American and Italian-American
has resided on the Italian Riviera for the past 15 years
has a Masters degree and a Ph.D. from UCLA
is a writer, translator and interpreter
interpreted for the President of the Bundesbank and Nobel Prize winning economists and authors
is the author of the international best-selling textbook Parliamo italiano!
has lived extensively in California, France and Italy
knows that good wine doesn’t grow in ugly places
is convinced that living is your greatest work of art
Suzanne Branciforte's Italian Grapevine 