Wine Tonite!

Arguably the two most well-known wine regions in Italy are Tuscany and Piedmont.  Tuscany is the home base of the popular Chianti and Chianti Classico while in Piedmont you’ll find Barolo, Barbaresco and Barbera among others.  Charlie, the owner of E. 48th Street Market was kind enough to keep his quaint little Italian bistro and [...]

Montaluce means “mountain of light” in Italian and could very well be a beacon of hope as well for the North Georgia wine industry.  Based on the passion and dream of Rob Beecham, the COO of Beecham Builders, Montaluce Winery & Estates is a growing Tuscan community in the mountains of North Georgia  (can you say “Ciao [...]

As a wine making neophyte, I often wonder if it would be crazy to eventually turn my new education and skills into a new career, especially with all the different wines that are out there.  I mean, how could my wine possibly stand out and get anyone’s attention, much less sell enough to feed the [...]

UPDATE (04/16/09): For more on Wine and Pizza check out this Asimov article: http://thepour.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/wine-and-pizza/   Jason’s post about a Rosso from Santa Martina had me once again pining for some Italian reds.  Having started my interest in wine in Napa, it has been difficult over the recent years to stretch my palate and interest in [...]

I just joined some friends of ours, who just happened to recently get married, at a wine tasting/food pairing.  The theme was Italian wines mostly from the Piedmont and Tuscany regions.  I want to tell you about 2 of the 7 wines we tasted in particular because of their “value.”  Both of these Italian reds [...]