Southern Italy Wine Culinary Travel Resource

Advocates Fifth Annual Gala November 18, 2021 Sparkling, Rose` and White Wines to be Auctioned

On November 18, 2021 Advocates, Inc., a charitable organization champions people who face developmental, mental health or other life challenges, is hosting its fifth annual gala. https://www.advocates.org/advocates-5th-annual-gala-game-life. The above collection of sparkling, rose` and white wines will be auctioned off to assist in raising funds in connection with the Gala. Below

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November 13, 2021 Wine Tasting

On Saturday November 13, 2021 I will be hosting a private tasting in connection with raising funds  for a public charity. There will be 12 wines as part of the tasting and a welcoming wine. The wines are from producers that abide by organic or biodynamic and/or natural/low intervention practices.  See

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Manet Community Health Center June Bloom Fundraiser – June 3, 2021

Here are the wines to be included in Manet Community Health Center’s virtual fundraiser June Bloom on June 3, 2021. https://www.manetchc.org/june-bloom/. The wines are from small family operated vineyards throughout several regions in Southern Italy. All the wineries produce either natural, low/minimal intervention or EU certified organic wines. Please see my blog post

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May Institute Fundraiser – May 13, 2021

Below are the wines to be featured in the virtual wine tasting event that is being auctioned on Thursday, May 13, 2021. If you are interested in participating in the auction. here is the link to the auction page.  https://e.givesmart.com/events/lnU/i/_All/dOIv/?search= The wines are from small family operated vineyards throughout several regions in

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Advocates Fundraiser November 19, 2020

Organic and Natural Wines from Southern Italy that are Included in Raffle Item If you get headaches or feel sick after drinking conventional commercially made wines (or scientific wines), you may want to consider natural or organic wines which do not use chemicals or pesticides in the vineyard and use

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Molise Wines

Last year our good friend, Gaetano Petrillo of The Wine Bus, encouraged us to visit the Region of Molise because it is one of two regions in Southern Italy that we had not visited. (Abruzzo is the other one – note even though Abruzzo geographically is central Italy, it is culturally associated

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More Aglianico del Vulture

As we observe social distancing we have not distanced ourselves from drinking fabulous Aglianico del Vulture wines. In addition to the three wines highlighted in my blog post of May 3, 2020, here are three more classics from the Aglianico del Vulture wine area: 2016 Titolo from Azienda Agricola Elena Fucci,

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