by Andy | Jul 27, 2022 | Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
Vinnie and I were travelling through the hills that separate the mountainous Apennine peaks from the narrow coastal strip in northern Abruzzo when our attention was captured by a rather strange land formation. From a distance it seemed as if Selene, the Goddess of the...
by Andy | Jun 29, 2022 | Montepulciano d’Abruzzo
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough,” posited William Blake in his famous work, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. To allow Americans to test this hypothesis in the early...
by Andy | Jun 15, 2022 | Trebbiano d'Abruzzo
Many of us are conscious of the ties that bind Italy and the United States. Sometimes this awareness is limited to the effects of movies like The Godfather – however, of course, the truth is very different and in many ways more fascinating. Just the figures...
by Andy | Jun 1, 2022 | Controguerra
Inside all of us there is that small seed of self-sufficiency, that desire to be independent, not to be reliant on the anonymous organisations that today dominate our world. As our transatlantic cousins so succinctly put it, ‘to stick it to the man’. The...
by Andy | May 18, 2022 | Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo
Driving through Italy Vinnie and I are privileged to see some iconic examples of the automotive designers’ art on our travels. From the miniscule original Fiat 500 to the mighty Ferrari, you can come across them all. But if you want to witness a collection of...
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