Laura Donadoni, Autore presso The Italian Wine Girl

Written on September 30 2019. Posted in Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Riparbella, the coastal Super Tuscans’ kingdom

Riparbella, situated in the verdant hills of Tuscany’s Pisa province, is a town that dates back to 1034. Named after the sandy white tufa soil concentrated here, Riparbella boasts a breezy microclimate...

Written on September 23 2019. Posted in U.S. wine regions, Wine Event.

How to detect BS wines? Marketing tricks, transparency and labels…

We are constantly bombarded with advertisements and marketing offers about wine: it’s easy to get confused and sometimes companies play around with the lack of wine knowledge...

Written on September 18 2019. Posted in video, Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Albino Armani on a mission to rescue ancient grapes and preserve Vallagarina’s identity

What can push a wine maker to invest 30 years of genetic and viticulture research to rescue from extintion a bunch of old native grapes? Easy: the immense love for his land and the willing to preserve...

Written on September 11 2019. Posted in Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Claudio Quarta, the Salento producer who showed me what can’t be seen… yet.

Here is what I will never forget about my first meeting with Claudio Quarta and the main reasons why I feel so blessed in doing my job: wine can be the connecting tool between dreamers and souls.

Written on August 27 2019. Posted in Italian products, Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Cilento’s renaissance starts with wine and buffalos

Giuseppe Pagano is a man devoted to his land and its products: I had one of the most emotional visits during my Southern Italy tour last June, in his winery. We immediately connected, through the love...

Written on August 21 2019. Posted in Italian products, Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Vineyards management at its extremest: Tenuta Podernovo pioneer of 2.0 surgical organic farming

Tenuta Podernovo was the first winery in Italy to apply Animavitis, the innovative system that allows surgical, extreemly precise viticulture techniques...

Written on August 16 2019. Posted in Wine Story, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Tormaresca: traditional soul, modern techniques, a new standard for Puglia’s wines

On a hot June summer day I visited Bocca di Lupo, one of the two Tormaresca estates in Puglia, Italy and I share with you my experience, as I do everytime I find a wine treasure. I truly appreciated...

Written on August 8 2019. Posted in Wine Event, Wine Tasting, Wine tourism.

Going South: a journey to the up and coming wine regions of Southern Italy

Last June I served as a wine judge at Radici del Sud, a wine competition dedicated to Southern Italy wines that took place in Bari, Puglia. More than 300 wines from Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Sicilia,...

Written on July 3 2019. Posted in Wine Event.

The first European Women in Wine Expo: how women can make wine dreams come true

I have met women from the most undiscovered wine regions who believed in their skills, in their dreams and struggled to make them happen, and now are leading successful wineries in Georgia, Moldova,...

Written on June 24 2019. Posted in Wine news, Wine Story.

Are red wine health benefits true or just a myth?

should be drinking more red wine,” but does the research actually confirm these statements?

Author: Laura Donadoni