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Going Full Circle in Chicago

Sante

Teaser: Annual beverage conference features informative seminars and networking over great wines. All in all, there were 13 seminars on two days of working lunches, breakouts, a grand tasting, and by-invitation-only dinners, including one led by blue-bereted Chef Francis Mallmann. full circle.jpg. Author(s): Roger Morris.

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??3 “Secrets” For Remote Wine Tasting You’ll Love

A Wine Story

Supery , an exclusive award-winning winery in the Napa Valley, offers an entire remote wine tasting experience with their virtual seminars. Supery team creates regularly scheduled online sessions designed to replicate an actual wine tasting experience. In terms of the tasting itself, Ms.

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2022 Anteprime Toscana

A Wine Story

My dad and uncle Fili worked in the vineyards on weekends, and I helped out as a kid. And no doubt, some remain buried deep in the earth, perhaps near the Tenuta di Artimino vineyards itself. Vineyards are planted at a higher altitude, resulting in more acidity. How did the professor get there? “It

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Auguri all'Abruzzo!

The Wine Knitter

Three years ago, Consorzio Tutela Vini D’Abruzzo invited me to attend an educational seminar in New York City to learn about the Abruzzo wine region of Italy. There are an impressive 36,000 hectares of vineyards in the Abruzzo region, with the majority of vineyards planted on hills. Abruzzo produces approximately 3.5

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Abruzzo; A Wine Region Worth Knowing

Sante

Several months ago the Consorzio Vini D’Abruzzo invited me to attend an educational seminar to explore and learn more about the Abruzzo wine region of Italy. I left the seminar with a wealth of information and my palate singing. And more than one million of these wines are Controlled Designation of Origin.

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Librandi Wines of Calabria

A Wine Story

The region and its native grapes Gaglioppo and Greco Bianco were familiar to me from my studies for the Italian Wine Professional designation. Over the last half-century, the Librandi family have purchased vineyards and invested in modern winemaking technology. Vineyards are planted in flat areas close to the sea and hills.

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??7 Secrets of Virtual Wine Tasting Kits You’ll Love

A Wine Story

The Unified Wine Symposium recently featured an informative seminar about virtual wine tasting kits. From this and other online seminars on the topic, the “unboxing” includes the moment the consumer receives the wine shipment. More technical notes from the vineyard manager or winemaker 5. The items: 1.

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