On a Road to Weight Loss: Here is How Wine Can Help
If you were to get yourself a fine bottle of fine, it could act as a replacement for a wide range of stuff; a nice dessert, Friday night plants, or even a ther...
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Life is too short to drink bad wine. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The 2020 Tre Bicchieri Awards – How it Works And Some of the Big Italian Wine Winners
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!
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
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?
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)
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?
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 ...
Can You Measure the Quality of a Vineyard?
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?
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 ...
The Marchesi di Barolo Moscato d’Asti Zagara 2018 Review
You’ve seen the word “Barolo” in this review and you’re probably thinking that this is going to be an article about the legendary king of wines.
But then yo...