The Wall Street Journal’s “House of the Week”: Castello di Collalto

Castle for Sale in Italy

The Castello di Collalto Sabino is a splendid and historically important castle dating back to the 12th. Century and located only 50 kms from Rome. The property has been tastefully restored with great care and creating an environment totally in accordance with modern living. The castle incorporates 9 en-suite bedrooms, along with a further 2 [...]

Different types of wine | Visual.ly

  With over 1,300 different wine grapes out there how do you find wines you’ll like? Discover similar tasting wines with this chart of almost 200 different types of wine. Organized by style and then flavor, it’s easy to see the taste relationships and look for synonymous wines. A great exploratory tool for a wine [...]

Heritage Mission Wine Vineyards Rediscovered in Copper Canyon – Guest Post | Vallarta Escapes

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16th century Jesuits set up missions in the remote regions of Mexico’s Copper Canyon teaching the indigenous Tarahumara Indians to raise livestock, make wood products from local pine and introduced Old World plants to the region including grapevines for wine production. via Heritage Mission Wine Vineyards Rediscovered in Copper Canyon – Guest Post | Vallarta [...]

Divino, a terrific selection of wines and terrific prices

The Italian restaurant divino has been around for a dozen years and is located on a fairly busy street near other attractions, but it is often overlooked. This is probably due, in part, to the fact that the restaurant is not terribly ambitious. It can still be a very enjoyable place to dine, though; the [...]

Gambero Rosso: the best Le Marche Wines – Tre Bicchieri 2013

Gambero Rosso is an Italian food and wine magazine and publishing group founded in 1986. Its name literally translates as “red prawn”. The Gambero Rosso wine ratings in Vini d’Italia are built up on the number of glasses (bicchieri) awarded to a wine, which is indicated in the wine guide with a number of stylized glasses next to the wine’s name. [...]

Casalfarneto 2012 – Fourth Harvesting Day

Thursday, September 13. The Harvest operations are suspended due to bad weather that will last until Friday September 14. The winery keep to monitoring the inner processes already started See on www.youtube.com

Made in Marche Festival!

Tipicità is the ultimate Marche Region showcase, an exhibition of all “Marche Product” contents, including food, wines, touristic supply and Made in Marche creations. An “event container” including: congresses, guided tastings, workshops and several brand new formats of foodtainment. An authentic experience that will drag your senses and soul through landscape, history, art, nature food [...]

Casalfarneto 2012 – Third Harvesting Day

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 the third day of Harvesting at Casalfarneto Winery. Wise men with years of experience contribute to the first step of the production of the wine Fontevecchia! Thursday and Friday, the harvest will be suspended because of the bad weather. Works will restart Monday, September the 17th! Stay Tuned!     See [...]

Bonci Manciano Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico

Bonci, Manciano Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi DOC Classico in an interesting video wine review See on www.youtube.com

La Fontursia ‐ Love for Land, Passion for Wine

Azienda Agricola Fontursia is an organic vineyard and winery located in the foothills of Ripatransone approximately ten kilometers from the Adriatic Sea in the province of Ascoli Piceno in southern Le Marche. The name “La Fontursia” is derived from the ancient language of the Tusci people who had a settlement in this area. In this [...]

Wines and People of Le Marche: Villa Bucci

Our property is extremely diversified, (covering a total of 350 hectares) comprising plantations of sugar beet, corn, wheat, sunflowers, etc. as well as centuries-old olive groves. Our area is called “Castelli di Jesi.” There is a unique grape of white wine called Verdicchio, which is indigenous to these hills. We now have about 31 hectares of [...]

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 [...]