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An intimate dinner with Bea Contini Bonacossi reveals tasting notes, questions answered and more…
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I think it’s almost an imperative to have a bottle of Vin Santo available over the Christmas holidays. This one is a striking value.
Continue readingIn 1870, humble Tuscan sharecroppers Emilio and Tranquillo Losi were dutifully tending the adjacent Fontino and Querciavalle farms that would become the Querciavalle estate. At the time, the adjoining farms were covered with grains, beans, grapes vines and olive trees…
Continue readingCastello di Ama is named for the tiny hamlet where it sits, perched high in the Tuscan hills midway between Gaiole and Radda. Since 1982, the husband and wife team of Marco Pallanti and Lorenza Sebasti have driven this property…
Continue reading~ San Gimignano as seen from Campochiarenti ~ Vin Santo, the Saint’s Wine. Golden and aristocratic, winemaker Daniele Rosti once told me that most Tuscans make Vin Santo because it is considered the minimum that someone should offer guests who…
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