Braised beef with porcini mushrooms | Italian Notes

Bistecca alla cacciatora Most Italians – especially those from central Italy – have a strong affection for the wild porcini mushrooms. The name alone gives a hint of the particular qualities, as ‘porcini’ means ‘piglet’ and the fungi do have a chewy meat-like taste and texture. Besides porcini have a symbiotic relationship with the trees [...]

Beat the heat with a light-bodied roses

The dog days of August have been biting early, but drinking these three chilled rose’ wines is one way to muzzle the heat. And the prices are cool, too. The 2011 Saladini Pilastri Rosato is refreshing and redeeming. Its pure sangiovese grapes are organically farmed on hillside vineyards in Italy’s Marche region. About a decade [...]

Verdicchio wine

The Verdicchio wine DOC is produced from an ancient grape of the Marches. Verdicchio has been commercially successful in the world since the ’60s in its simple version, fresh and youthful. The high efficiency allows the Verdicchio fresh sparkling wine, but its most precious vocation has been improved only recently, thanks to products firm and [...]

_Malloni I_Malloni and Fall / Winter Presentation

Particularly _Malloni is built on shades ranging from bronze to dark brown, from medium gray, nickel; There are mats of wool plated with gold foils and viscose is laminated with a dark silver. The knitwear is noted: fineness 3, to lace stramato. The fur is wool and silk threads floating: here sought and wild blend. [...]

Best Wines of Le Marche: Serrapetrona Doc 2007 Robbione, Colli di Serrapetrona

Grapes: 100% Vernaccia Nera Alcohol: 14,5% Bottles: 10000 Price: €15,00 Description: Vivacious ruby red, consistent. Sensations in the aroma of marasca cherry, also in jam, violets, wilted roses and licorice. Dry and warm in the mouth, soft and fresh enough with gentle tannins and an appreciable flavor. Full bodied, well present at the end with [...]

Best Wines of Le Marche: Terreni di San Severino Doc Morro 2007 “Ciacco da Colmone” Fattoria Colmone della Marca

DOC of the Sanseverino Moro territori, a blend of Montepulciano (60%) and Sangiovese (40%); vinified in stainless steel tank, aged for 18 months: part in seasoned wood, part in toasted wood. A red of unmistakable personality, elegance, style and great longevity. Sensory Characteristics: A red of unmistakable personality. An intense ruby red with purple tones. [...]

Best Wines of Le Marche: Rosso Piceno Superiore Doc 2008 – Re Nero – il Crinale

Grapes: 60% of Sangiovese, 40% of Montepulciano Alcohol: 13,5% Price: 7,50€ Bright and vivacious ruby red, clear and consistent. an Aroma of red roses, violets maraschine cherries, plums, small red fruits, licorice and vanilla. It is dry, warm, soft enough with elegant and savory tannins. A wine of character, balanced, intense and persistent: at the end [...]

Best Wines of Le Marche: Conti di Buscareto, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba Doc Passito 2008

The grapes, picked at the end of September in S. Amico vineyards near to Morro d’Alba, collected in small cases and shrivelled until the next February. Dried grapes are then pressed and the juice fermented with skins for two weeks. The wine is aged for 12 months in small steel tanks and matured for two years in [...]

Kurni – Oasi degli Angeli: tradition and territory

House, cellar, an eatery open at week-ends, vineyards, a kitchen garden and rabbit hutches make up the haven in the Sant’Egidio valley, site whose biodiversity is protected by European Union, that Marco Casolanetti and Eleonora Rossi came back to in 1990s after finishing university in Bologna. She, a would-be teacher and a fantastic cook, returned [...]

Panting with wine: EnoArte from Le Marche

Can a painting get older, just like a man does? Just as in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, my wine-made paintings do. While making some experiments with wine as a source of colour – many others had already tried, but they never really succeeded – I realized all the difficulties of such technique: [...]

Le Marche and Wines

The Marches’ vineyards were all completely renovated over the course of last century. The sector of the wine industry is modern and quality-oriented allowing it to achieve excellent results. Viticulture is only carried out on hilly slopes which enjoy exposure to the sun in the first half of the day. The resulting countryside demonstrates the [...]

Le Marche Wines by clubviniitaliani.co.uk

Le Marche is geographically one of the most unusual regions of Italy, being bordered on one side by the Apennine mountains and on the other by the sea. The climate is tempered by warm sea breezes throughout the year, giving wonderful growing conditions, and the mountainous area to the west benefits from higher altitudes and [...]