Serprino wine sounds like a cartoon sidekick, and it drinks like one: small, bubbly and hard to dislike. It also gets mistaken for its famous cousin all the time, which is a bit like calling someone by their sibling’s name. If you’ve seen it on a menu near Padova and…
Colli Euganei Rosso is an Italian wine made almost entirely of French grapes. Merlot, Cabernet and Carmenère moved to the volcanic hills near Padova in the 1800s, never left, and now everyone treats them like locals. It’s one of Veneto’s best surprises. So let’s look at what’s in the bottle,…
Once a year, Italian wineries do something very generous: they leave the gate open and invite strangers in. Even better, they pour wine, offer a tour and sometimes throw in a pizza. It’s called Cantine Aperte, or “open cellars”, and Cantine Aperte in the Colli Euganei, the volcanic hills south…
Wine trips come in two kinds: the ones you plan, and the ones where you follow a brown tourist sign, get lost twice and end up arguing with your phone. This guide is for the first kind. The second kind is fun too, but nobody can promise you a tasting….
Most people visit Padova for the frescoes and the basilica, then head home without noticing the bumps on the skyline south of the city. Those bumps are volcanoes. Extinct, very well behaved, and covered in vines. I’ve toured a winery there, watched a harvest and even stomped grapes with my…
There’s a special kind of confidence in arriving at a winery gate at 1:15 pm, glass-ready and smiling, and finding the whole estate has gone to lunch. Here in Italy, lunch is not negotiable. If you want to buy wine directly from Italian wineries, that’s lesson one. Lesson two is…
Picture one of those small Italian wineries from the postcards. Golden hillside, stone cellar, a grandfather squinting at the sky like he’s negotiating with it. Lovely, right? Now picture the part nobody photographs: a laptop, a tax form and a family trying to work out who is going to buy…
Guess who else has joined the footballers’ winery club? Neymar. Yes, that Neymar, the man who spends his days bending footballs into impossible corners and has now decided to try the same trick with a wine label. Meet the Neymar wine Le Prince, which reported advance sales of 300,000 bottles…
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