Laura Donadoni has started the Italian wine girl blog with the aim to spread Italian wine culture and love across the world. You will read stories, ideas, struggles, joys and sorrows, this is the journal of a passionate ambassador of the Italian wine and good taste!
If you have attended schools to become a sommelier or wine tasting courses, I am sure you have come across these precepts: “cork is best for wines that need to evolve because it breathes, while screw caps or synthetic polymer corks block oxygen.” Or: “bottles should absolutely be stored lying horizontally”. I myself professed these […]
The anxiety of missing an event does not only concern companies or business opportunities, but also those who attend wine events for pleasure, for passion, perhaps exploring the idea of making it a...
I started dealing with gender gaps, discrimination and sexism one day in mid-January 2020 when I decided that I didn’t want to put up with it anymore, that I didn’t want to “be superior”,...
Moscato is one of the most "bullied" grape varieties at home, in Italy, and one of the most exported in the world, especially in the States where the most appreciated version is the low-alcohol, sugary...
Wine is the result of the magical combination of many elements: nature, vine, terroir, but there is a factor which is too often considered as secondary, in particular in this latest fashion of "natural"...
A noble wine, a historic cru, from organic grapes, and produced with the help of an innovative zero-emission tractor. It will be Barolo Vigna La Rosa, Fontanafredda, 2021, a vintage destined to make...
An evocative name, a fascinating history and a wine with great potential: Albarossa has all the elements for success. The vine was created in 1938 by Prof. Giovanni Dalmasso, one of the noble fathers...
Are you all about reds? Do you feel adventurous? Here is a list of red grape varieties from Southern Italy to look out for when the devil of online wine shopping comes to possess you again.
The end of the year is approaching and so the famous “draw a line" moment. Already the various memes about how this 2020 was a disaster are popular on the social media, with preludes of extraordinary...
Dessert wines are the most neglected wine category: they are hard to sell, according to many sales representatives and hospitality professionals. The problem is, in my opinion, that they are sold only...
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