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The 2020 Tre Bicchieri Awards – How it Works And Some of the Big Italian Wine Winners

Ilenia B.14 March 2020

Have you heard of the prestigious Tre Bicchieri awards? Each year, an organisation called Gambero Rosso hands out these awards to the best and brightest of ...

Vinitaly Gets Postponed…For Now!

Ilenia B.12 March 2020

By now, we’re sure you’ve heard about the effects the Coronavirus is having in Italy. Unfortunately, the country seems to be the European epicentre for the dis...

Coronavirus Won’t Affect Your Favourite Italian Wines

Ilenia B.10 March 2020

We’re sure you’ve heard about the coronavirus by now. If you haven’t, we need to ask about the rock you’ve been living under! It seems like you’re in the on...

Is Wine Really Better at Stimulating Your Brain Than Math?

Ilenia B.7 March 2020

We all know that keeping our brains stimulated is extremely important. After all, you want to have a good memory as you get older. And you don’t much fancy ...

53% of People Consider Themselves Food and Wine Tourists (And Some Tips for the New Wine Tourist)

Ilenia B.5 March 2020

The 2020 Italian Food and Wine Tourism Report is in and it has provided us with some interesting statistics related to the wine tourism industry. According ...

Can You Make Wine At Home?

Ilenia B.3 March 2020

You’ve spent years building up a fine collection of Italian wine… Well, let’s be honest. You don’t exactly have an active collection. It’s more like a list ...

The Symbolism of Wine – Examples of Where Italian Wine Means More Than it Seem

Ilenia B.29 February 2020

When you’re opening your second bottle of Italian wine of the evening, you’re probably not giving a whole lot of thought to the symbolism that lies behind the ...

The Best Wines for Making Sangria (And a Tasty Recipe for Making Your Own)

Ilenia B.27 February 2020

When you think of Italian wine cocktails, you generally tend to think of white and sparkling wines. After all, they usually have the lighter flavours that make...

Can You Measure the Quality of a Vineyard?

Ilenia B.25 February 2020

You’ve heard it from so many Italian wine producers… The quality of the land has a huge impact in the quality of the wine. The terroir has been romanticised...

Warm Weather and Italian Wine Grapes – How Does the Climate Affect the Grape?

Ilenia B.22 February 2020

If you’ve been keeping track of the Xtrawine blog for a while, you probably know that we’ve written about climate change and the effects that weather can have ...

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