Southern Italy Wine Culinary Travel Resource

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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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Aglianico del Vulture

Last weekend we sheltered in place at our beach house with three fabulous three Aglianico del Vulture wines; Serra del Prete 2011 from Azienda Agricola Musto Carmelitano,  Camerlengo 2014 from Azienda Agricola Camerlengo and Le Drude 2012 from Azienda Agricola Laluce. We have visited each of the wineries; Musto Carmelitano once, Camerlengo twice

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February 29, 2020 Tasting

This evening’s tasting focuses on Southern Italian small family owned wineries that produce low intervention wines made with organically grown grapes. There is also a short discussion on extra virgin olive oil. What is the definition of  a producer of low intervention wines? Non-interventionist winemakers use as few additives as possible and as little manipulation

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Krokidas & Bluestein 15th Annual Wine and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tasting

This 15th Annual Wine and Extra Virgin Olive Oil tasting focuses on Southern Italian small family owned farms that produce low intervention wines and extra virgin olive oil made with organically grown grapes and olives. There will be 19 different wines and three different extra virgin olive oils included in the tasting. There is no expectation that all

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Map Updated January 1, 2020

The updated map includes new wineries, accommodations and restaurants we visited, stayed or ate at this past October. Also included is a restaurant that we visited in 2018. To open the map please click on the word map (above on this post), which is between the words home and about. Eight new wineries

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December 14, 2019 Tasting

This evening’s tasting  focuses on Southern Italian small family owned wineries that produce  low intervention wines made with organically grown grapes. What is the definition of  a producer of  low intervention wines? Non-interventionist winemakers use as few additives as possible and as little manipulation as they can.http://www.morethanorganic.com/definition-of-natural-wine. (“More than Organic”) As More than Organic notes winemakers

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Ciro` Revolution – Return to Natural Winemaking

A remote area of Southern Italy is poised to take the international market by storm with a group of small family operated wineries that abide by organic/natural methods in the vineyard and  cellar. The Ciro` DOC is located midway on the Ionian side of the  Calabria peninsula and includes the towns

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