Schioppettino Valley

Schioppettino Valley

We have driven east across the billiard-table flat Friulian plain to arrive in the foothills of the Julian Alps; more precisely we are in the beautiful, lush, and green (even on an early spring day) Judrio Valley in eastern Friuli Venezia Giulia. On the far side of...
Simply Schioppettino

Simply Schioppettino

As you will have read on the home page of this blog, Vinnie and I are travelling the length and breadth of Italy looking for great wines and interesting places and we were now within 200 metres of the Slovenian border. We had come to the small village of Prepotto, and...
A Rare Rosazzo

A Rare Rosazzo

The village of Corno di Rosazzo is in the province of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of the 20 regions which make up Italy and perhaps one of the least well known to non-Italians. Somewhat separate from the rest of the peninsula, it sits high to the northeast, bordering...