Barolo – The Old-Fashioned Way…

Barolo – The Old-Fashioned Way…

Vinnie and I are back in the Langhe in southern Piedmont. Italy is a country blessed with some outstanding landscapes, but the scenery here is so distinctive. The geometrical precision of the lines of vines meets the softly curving contours of the hills in a fusion so...
Dogliani Dolcetto

Dogliani Dolcetto

Piedmont is one of the northernmost regions of Italy and the release that spring grants to this land from the cruel hand of winter is almost palpable. While the Alps in the north of the region may still be crowned with snow, further south nature rises from her...
Barolo, The King of Wines

Barolo, The King of Wines

The Langhe is a very special area in Italian winemaking tradition. Situated on the north side of the Apennines as they turn west and reluctantly trudge towards France like some recalcitrant schoolboy, the Langhe looks north across the flat plain of the river Po...