Description of White Wines Miniere 2019, produced by Cantina Dell’Angelo, Tufo, Avellino, Campania; Angelo Muto makes a natural/organic wine with Greco di Tufo grapes in which he adds only a small trace of sulfites at bottling. Picoli 2018, produced by Cantina Bambinuto, Santa Paolina, Avellino, Campania; Marilena Aufiero makes a
Description of Wines Aglianico di Baal 2018, produced by Casa di Baal, Az, Agr. Macchia, Salerno, Campania; Francesca Salerno makes a natural/organic wine with Aglianico grapes in which there is a trace of sulfites added at bottling. Gioviano 2018, Il, produced by Cancelliere Az. Vitivinicola, Montemararo, Avellino, Campania; Rita Pizza
On Friday November 17, 2023, we will be holding a private tasting in connection with raising funds for a public charity. The wines to be tasted will be from various regions of Southern Italy. All wines are from producers that abide by organic or biodynamic and/or natural/low intervention practices. See my May
On October 20, 2023 DOVE, a public charity dedicated to working to end domestic and partner violence, is having its annual fundraiser at the Marriot Hotel in Quincy, MA. The above wines will be one of many auction items at the event. Here is a brief description of the12 bottles
On October 20, 2023 DOVE, a public charity dedicated to working to end domestic and partner violence, is having its annual fundraiser at the Marriot Hotel in Quincy, MA. The above wines will be one of many auction items at the event. Here is a brief description of the 12
My message is straightforward. When dining at a restaurant that advertises itself as serving Italian cuisine one should have the opportunity to order Italian wine from a wide selection to pair with the food. Recently in San Francisco we ate at two restaurants that featured Italian cuisine that included wine
I have translated the article to English with Google Translate. At the end of the Italian version there is short You Tube video on Salvatore. Here is the link to the You Tube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_HnLwDfxo. And at the end of this blog article are my notes from our 2015 with
On January 22, 2023 Le Cronache, a Salerno, Italy newspaper published an interview of me. The interview was a continuation of the newspaper’s coverage of the January 14, 2023 conference at Stazione Marittima di Salerno of certified organic or in conversion to organic wines included in the recently published Guida
Below is a translation of an interview of me that appeared in the January 23, 2023 edition of Le Cronache – a newspaper based in the Southern Italian City of Salerno, Italy. Salerno is the “gateway” to the Amalfi Coast. The interview article is entitled “Salerno to Boston – a
After our most recent trip to Italy we have now visited 110 different wine producers in Southern Italy. These meetings provide us insights as to the winemakers’ farming practices (biodynamic/organic/sustainable/conventional) and cellar practices (100% natural/natural-low intervention/low intervention/organic/conventional – the difference between natural – low intervention and low intervention is that