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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

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

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

Italian Wine Week: San Francisco 2019

March 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

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It was that time of year! In a four-day period in March 2019, San Francisco is home to three premier that are exclusively (or in the case of the third, primarily) Italian wines. If you love Italian wines, we probably saw you. And if you don’t live in San Francisco, fear not because these events […]

Filed Under: California, Destination Type, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Food & Wine, Italy, North America, Piemonte, San Francisco, SF-Wine/Wineries, Travel, Tuscany, United States, Wine Events, Wine Region Tagged With: Gambero Rosso, James Suckling, Slow Wine, Tre Bicchieri

Piemonte Wine Tastings

October 18, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Our long-anticipated trip to the home of Nebbiolo, Barbera, Dolcetto and Aneis grapes and famed Barola and Barbaresco wines in Italy’s Piemonte region, began with a large winery that grows and buys grapes from many surrounding areas, and therefore, produces a wide range of wines. We began our Piemonte exploration of wineries at Fontanafredda with […]

Filed Under: Alba, Barbaresco, Barolo, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Italy, Piemonte, Travel, Wine Region, Wine/Wineries Tagged With: Aneis, Barbera, Borgogno, Ca’dei Baio, Cordero di Montezemolo, Dolcetto, Fontanafredda, G.D. Vajra, Nebbiolo, Paitin

Piemonte Region in Italy

September 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

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Alba Italy Alba Italy, in the Piemonte region was settled more than 2,000 years ago. It began to grow as a stop on a Roman road and became prosperous as an independent city-state in the 11th century. The city was fought over and changed hands several times over the subsequent centuries. It earned the nickname, […]

Filed Under: Alba, Barolo, Destination Type, Destinations, Europe, Featured-City, Italy, Piemonte, Travel, Wine Region Tagged With: Guido Ristorante, La Cantinetta, Palazzo Finati

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