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Kyiv Ukraine – Remembering the Beauty

March 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

With the horrific things going on in Ukraine today, we wanted to remember the beauty of the country and its people by reposting our blog on Kyiv from our 2019 trip. Our prayers are with the Ukraine people and hope they keep their country and their spirit. Kyiv’s History Kiev Ukraine is one of the […]

Filed Under: Activities, Destinations, Dining, Europe, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Hotels, Hotels, Kyiv, Restaurants, Travel, Ukraine Tagged With: Bohdan Khmelnytsky Monument, Golden Gate, Maidan Square, St Andrew’s Church, St. Michael’s Golden Dome Monastery, St. Sophia’s Cathedral

Tre Bicchieri: Tasting the “Best of the Best” Italian Wines

March 7, 2022 Leave a Comment

February 2022 saw the resumption of the traditionally annual North American Tre Bicchieri roadshow after the pandemic-mandated halt to large-scale, trade-only wine tastings. Tre Bicchieri, which translates into “three glass” is the designation that Gambero Rosso, home of the comprehensive Vini d’Italia wine guide gives to the fewer than one percent of the more than […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Events, Italy, San Francisco, Wine Events, Wine Region Tagged With: wine, Wine events, wineries

Hagia Sophia

July 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

Hagis Sophia

Hagia Sophia has been in the news as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconverted this magnificent  Byzantine structure into a place for Muslim worshipers for the first time in nearly nine decades.  The Hagia Sophia has undergone several changes in its history. A Byzantine emperor, Justinian I, originally built it in the 6th century as the […]

Filed Under: Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Travel, Turkey Tagged With: Hagia Sophia

Tre Bicchieri and the Top Wines of Italy

March 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Every year, the Italian food and wine magazine Gambero Rosso sponsors a tasting tour of Italian wines that win the organization’s prestigious Tre Bicchieri (“three glass”) designation. Gamberao Rosso’s panel of experts award this rating to only about one percent of the 45,000 wines tasted. Producers who win these designations are permitted to showcase these […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Italy, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Berbera, Catarrato, Emilia-Romagna, Frescobaldi, Gambero Rosso, Pico Maccario Centrpassi, Primativo, Produttori di Manduria, Sangiovese, Tre Bicchieri, Verdicchio, Vermentino

Grands Crus 2017 Bordeaux Wine

March 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Union des Grands Crus de Bordeaux is a group of 134 top wine-producing Châteaux from a number of Bordeaux’s most prized appellations. The group sponsors a number of wine tastings that provide an opportunity to sample wines from the region’s newly released vintages. The January 2020 San Francisco Event focused on 2017 and 2018 wines […]

Filed Under: Bordeaux, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, France, Wine Events, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Appellation Pomerol, Botrytis, Chateau Brane-Cantenac, Chateau Coutet, Chateau Criozet-Bages, Chateau Dauzac, Chateau de Chantegrive, Chateau Doisy Daene, Chateau d’Yquen, Chateau Ferrande, Chateau Giscours, Chateau Grand-Puy Ducasse, Chateau Gruaud Larose, Chateau Guiraud, Chateau Haut-Bages Liberal, Chateau Kirwan, Chateau Lafaurie-Peyraguey, Chateau Lafron-Rochet, Chateau Lascombes, Chateau Leoville Poyferre, Chateau Les Carmes Haut-Brion, Château Marquis de Terme, Chateau Mouton Rothschild, Chateau Ormes De Pez, Chateau Pichon Baron, Chateau Prieure-Lichine, Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte, Chateaus Carbonnieux, Domaine de Chevalier, Haut-Medoc, Haut-Peyraguey, Left Bank, Malartic-Lagraviere, Margaux, Pauillac, Right Bank, Saint Estephe, Saint-Julien

Benevento Brunello

March 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Montalcino is a pretty medieval town in Italy’s Sienna providence. This area is the warmest and driest of Tuscan wine-growing regions. It is mostly known for Brunello wines, and is normally associated with high-quality Brunello di Montalcino wines. Montalcino winemaking started with Moscadello white Muscat wine production. In the early 14th century, Brunello red wines […]

Filed Under: Featured-City, Italy, Montalcino, Wine Events, Wine Region Tagged With: Brunello, Brunello di Montalcino, DOC, DOCG, Montalcino, Moscadello di Montalcino, Sangiovese, Sangiovese Grosso, Sant’Antimo DOC

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