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On the 20th of June we had a romantic dinner in Munich, the place around the terrace was a fusion of modern and old buildings. With two dishes of international cuisine, we decided to drink a South African wine: Shiraz produced by La Motte. It is a renowned winery of South Africa and our first impression of the smell in the glass was amazing. I caught Illy’s glance and she assented. We are talking about a delicious wine. In fact we appreciated very much this wine. It was a little strong, 14 degrees, the color was dark red and the taste was spicy, just everything my palate wanted that night.

Glass after glass we emptied the bottle and I said to Illy: is the bottle volume really 75cc? Maybe less…..

PS: I took a look at La Motte distribution and I found that it doesn’t distribute in Italy, isn’t the web site updated? I hope so.

As Illy announced, last Saturday we went to Franciacorta, a small region between Brescia and Bergamo, located south of Iseo Lake, a nice small romantic lake. This region increased its popularity in the last years thanks to its wines. There, wine is produced since hundreds of years but only in the last 30 years it became really famous for its sparkling white wine named Franciacorta. The wine is produced with the same method as Champagne, the classic method, and using the same grape varieties, mainly chardonnay and pinot noir. Certainly there is a difference but some Franciacorta are even considered at the same level of some Champagne. The reason of this success can be attributed to good entrepreneurs, right choices, high quality of wines and a good marketing.
Franciacorta is today one of my favorite wines. You can find many kinds of Franciacorta: Brut, Saten, Rosé and Millésimé.

You can choose from which of those you would like to start exploring Franciacorta!

Our Tastings:

• Barone Pizzini

Few nights ago Illy and I tasted Pecorino, an Italian white wine produced near Chieti, a small town in the region of Abruzzo. If we consider the position only, we can deduce that this wine has a particular smell and a typically Mediterranean taste. In fact the region is a few kilometers from the Adriatic sea, on the other hand, it is near to the mountain chain of Gran Sasso and the influence of that climate marks the characteristics of those wines. I am not a specialist and, in order to find out more, I searched what the web is telling about Pecorino. I found that Pecorino is a native grape in that region, the color is straw yellow almost golden with deep smells and an alcoholic scale that can reach 14 degree.
I appreciate the freshness and the taste of this wine. The winery to produce this wine is Citra.

Finally, we suggest Pecorino in a summer day, when the hot is intolerable and we want to drink a good and cold white wine.
This wine can be paired with white meats, fish and paella.

Try and enjoy it.

Few days ago, Illy and I tasted a new wine. We talked about it many times and we finally bought a bottle and decided to drink it.

The wine was Anthìlia, an Italian white wine produced by Donnafugata, from Sicily, one of the most important wineries in Italy. The smell immediatly grabbed our attention, it reminded us some flowers and citrus of southern Italy. I poured the wine in the glasses and the color was pale straw yellow. Then we tasted it and we were very satisfied about our choice. In my humble opinion this is a very good wine.

And the food pairings? Anthìlia is good with white meats, every kind of fish and fresh vegetables or everything together like the experimental paella cooked by Illy.
I am curious to know if someone of you has ever tasted this wine.