There’s a castle at the southern tip of Lake Garda that you can only reach on foot, across a drawbridge, over water on every side. Cars stop outside the gate. You walk in like everyone has for the last seven hundred years. The Scaligero Castle in Sirmione has stood since…
Sometimes the best pairing with a glass of wine is a good laugh. Here are five jokes for anyone who’s ever “accidentally” left a wine shop with more bottles than they planned. #1 I bought a wine rack to organize my collection. Now I have an organized excuse to buy…
More bubbles doesn’t mean better Champagne, and Prosecco was never trying to be Champagne in the first place. Here’s what’s actually happening in your glass.
Here is a sentence I did not expect to write about a hotel in the middle of a city. They make their own wine. Not “they have a good wine list.” Not “the sommelier is very knowledgeable.” The family who owns Massimago Wine Suites also owns a working winery forty…
There are hotel spas and then there is the Terme della Valpolicella. Most hotel spas give you eucalyptus steam rooms, a swimming pool, and a list of treatments with names like “Serenity Journey” that involve warm stones and someone playing a flute somewhere in the background. The spa at Villa…
Let me tell you something about the Prosecco hills that most travel blogs don’t think to mention. You can sleep inside them. Not in a tent. Not in a rustic farmhouse with questionable plumbing and a charming smell. I mean inside an actual medieval castle, two thousand years old, sitting…
There’s a moment in Veneto that doesn’t look like anything special at first. But it is. It’s early evening. Not late enough for dinner, not early enough to still be working. Someone says “just one glass,” and nobody believes them. Not because they’re lying. But because Prosecco in Italy is…
Most people who visit the Veneto never actually see the Veneto. They land at Venice Marco Polo airport, take a water taxi into the city, spend three days walking over bridges and eating near the Rialto, and then fly home. Which is wonderful, truly. Venice is extraordinary. But it’s also…
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