August 2025
7 posts published by Susannah during August 2025| avvinare.com
Today I remembered that my diner companions and I had another interesting Montefalco Rosso at that dinner I wrote about yesterday. This one was completely different from the first both in style and grape composition. I want to mention it to illustrate how much variety you can find in this denomination from Consorzio Tutela Vini […]|
Today’s post is about Montefalco Rosso DOC, one of the denominations in the Consorzio Tutela Vini Montefalco’s stable of wines. As I mentioned in my writing over the weekend, it is one of the denominations that they protect. Made with a blend of grapes that includes 60-80% Sangiovese, 10-25% Sagrantino, and 0-30% other grapes, the […]|
Tonight, August 10, is officially known in Italy as la Notte di San Lorenzo or the Night of the Shooting Stars. This is because, apparently, if there are clear skies, one can see many shooting stars. I always thought this was very poetic but somewhat of a myth. Until I went sailing in […]|
This past June I was invited by Miriade & Partners to attend the Anteprime called A Montefalco and produced by the Consorzio Tutela Vini Montefalco. The Consorzio presented to 2021 vintage of Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG and the vintages currently on the market of Spoletino DOC, Montefalco DOC, and Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG. According to the Consorzio, […]|
I was invited by Paola Pavan of OPC Consulting to a wine & cheese pairing event last month at the Columbus Citizens Foundation hosted by the House of Made in Italy. The cheeses were some of the classics from Italy and the wines were a surprise group of wines, some of which were also shown […]|
This week has been surprising with Earthquakes shaking our home in New Jersey two days in a row. Luckily I have had lots of nice bottles of white wine on hand to help calm my nerves through it all. This lovely wine from Villa Matilde’s Rocca dei Leoni estate was a Falanghina, a white wine […]|
Here we are. August and rather than focusing on the dog days of summer, most people involved in the wine industry are thinking about tariffs which have been in effect thus far at around 10% on impo…| avvinare.com
Over the course of the last two days, I have had a lot of fun tasting various wines and foods with wine friends and a couple of events. While I tasted many different wines, every time I taste Sangiovese, I confirm that it is my favorite grape in most of its iterations. It could be […]|
I have been fortunate enough to celebrate La Fête Nationale Francaise – Le Quatorze Juillet, a holiday marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789 of the Bastille, in Paris on a number of …| avvinare.com
As we celebrated our 249th birthday, I am musing about the Fifty States of Wine in the United States. I will be launching a once a week article on wines from each of the states and by next July 4th, will have completed the 50 posts. The first one will be about New Jersey. While […]|
Last week I had the opportunity to join a group of writers, sommeliers, importers, and educators at The Gattopardo in New York City for a delightful tasting on wines from Abruzzo organized by the C…| avvinare.com
This month the #WorldWineTravel group is writing about lesser known wine regions. I am taking the opportunity to write about an area of first heard of in 2018 from one of the members of the Scurek …| avvinare.com
This weekend, the #WorldWineTravel crew will be dishing on lesser known regions of the wine world. We will be posting our articles on our respective blogs and social media outlets. The wine world h…| avvinare.com
This month the Italian Food Wine and Travel crew looked at wines from the mountains also known as Alpine wines. I am always excited to drink wines that I know are grown at altitude and as climate c…| avvinare.com
It feels fitting that after a long absence on this blog, since May 1, 2024, I would start writing again and it would be about Piedmont, Italy’s renowned wine region. It’s thanks to the …| avvinare.com
