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21 August 2016
It was a round about trip over the hill from Ruttars to San Floriano and down to Lenzuolo Bianco. This part of the world has been home to the Gravner family for centuries. We should add that our ageing navigator hasn’t been updated in a decade because we’ve learned that often the accidental road ‘less-travelled’ brings with it an unexpected lifetime of surprises.
23 July 2016
Amazingly good fortune it was to step into an unexpected & quite mind-bending, mini-vertical of Tenuta di Blasig’s Malvasia Istriana. All thanks to Friuli’s legendary enological historian and all-round native grape hero, Claudio Fabbro ;)
24 June 2016
Castilla y Leòn, and more precisely the hinterland surrounding the town of RUEDA, is home to one of Spain’s most successful native grape phenomena, the white variety known as VERDEJO.
14 June 2016
If a life of surprises is what you seek, then hang a left at the top of the escalator. Good stuff tends to happens when you take a different path.