Most people hesitate before buying a $50 bottle of wine. Someone once spent $558,000. Not on a wine collection, not on a wine cellar. On a single bottle. The obvious question isn’t whether the wine was good. The real question is: who spends that much money on a bottle of…
This might be the most controversial thing I write on this blog. Not because Italians don’t love food. They absolutely do. This is a country that can turn a conversation about pasta into a family argument lasting three generations. But after spending time around Italian wine culture, I’ve become convinced…
I need you to stop whatever you’re doing right now. Put down your glass — actually no, keep the glass. You’re going to need it. A while back I wrote about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s winery, Château Miraval — this insanely gorgeous estate in the south of France where…
The Man Who Bet a $650 Million Wine Empire on a Movie Nobody Wanted Two Oscars. One bankrupt vineyard. A Finnish sea captain. And a film that cost him everything. Welcome to the most dramatic celebrity winery story ever told. Most celebrity wineries exist because someone got rich, went to…
Some hotels are beautiful. Monastero Santa Rosa is slightly annoying. Not because there’s anything wrong with it. Quite the opposite. It’s because after spending time somewhere like this, ordinary hotels become very difficult to appreciate. You know the feeling. You return home from an incredible trip, check into a perfectly…
Sting’s Winery Il Palagio: The Rockstar Who Makes Wine as Revenge He got conned on the day he bought the place. What followed was two decades of very expensive, very biodynamic payback. Let’s be honest. When you hear “celebrity winery,” your expectations drop immediately. You picture a famous face on…
Some vacations help you relax. Others quietly convince you that answering emails is actually a terrible way to live. That’s more or less what happens at Almar Jesolo Resort & Spa. You arrive thinking: “A few days by the beach sounds nice.” Then suddenly: Italy can be very persuasive sometimes….
Most people hear “Veneto” and immediately think: Very few think: mountains. Which is honestly a mistake. Because hidden in the northern part of Veneto is Asiago — a place where wine suddenly meets fireplaces, cold mountain air, wooden lodges, long dinners, and the kind of silence that makes you sleep…
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