For the first time, Chicago will be host to the annual Tre Bicchieri tasting held by the Italian wine publication, Gambero Rosso. The Tre Bicchieri award is reserved for the best wines of the year; for the 2010 edition, the publication selected 391 wines as worthy of that award from a total of more than [...]
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VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani is the author of Vino al Vino, Italy’s top wine blog, where the following editorial appeared yesterday in Italian (translation by VinoWire).
Times are tough and we all need something to laugh about now and then.
So just sit back and relax because I have a wine joke I’d like to tell [...]
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According to a post by Montalcino Report, Chicago has been chosen as the second U.S. city for the 2010 edition of Benvenuto Brunello. The Chicago tasting is scheduled for February 1 and will be part of a larger program devoted to the wines of Vino Nobile di Montepuliciano, Chianti Classico, and Prosecco di Conegliano e [...]
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Luciano Pignataro, one of Italy’s leading experts in southern Italian wines and editor of an eponymous award-winning Italian- and English-language blog devoted to the wines of Italy’s south, will join the staff of the newly christened Slow Food guide to Italian wines as its Campania, Basilicata, and Calabria coordinator, beginning with the 2010 edition (the [...]
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