Halloween: legends of haunted wineries
Legends of haunted wineries and estates today on xtraWine Blog. Read on!...
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Wine and hospitality with Alois Lageder
The #xtraWine summer season is still going strong with tips on wine tourism, hospitality, and wine reviews.
For this article, we go back to Trentino Alto Ad...
An xtraWine exclusive: Pian di Seta
xtraWine presents an exclusive on its line of organic wines: Pian di Seta Vermentino di Toscana IGT Bio 2021. from July 12th to September 12th xtraWine will be the only online wine shop in Europe to offer this organic wine. xtraWine's endless dedication to sustainability continues, in collaboration with Tenuta di Monterufoli....
xtraWinexperience #10: Campania
xtraWinexperience goes to Campania
https://youtu.be/MGJ_MbLL8GY
Playground of the Romans during the heydays of the Roman Empire, Campania has a fascina...
xtraWineXperience Tuscany: Poggio al Tesoro
xtraWinexperience Tuscany brings us to Bolgheri, a small hamlet (which is a small settlement, smaller than a village) near Livorno, south of Pisa. Livorno is a...
Cantina Contratto, a 150 year old fairy tale
We have already talked about the Piedmont region, it is one of the best suited in Italy for wine production. The Contratto winery is one of the many realities...
Brancaia N°2: pure Maremma Cabernet Sauvignon
“Our Cabernet Sauvignon from Maremma? Bold, powerful and elegant at the same time”, says Barbara Widmer. ...
A chat with Barbara Widmer, Brancaia
Harvest time is already over in the Brancaia estates in Chianti and Maremma and Barbara Widmer, winemaker at the winery for the last 20 years, takes some time to answer some questions....
I SODI DI S. NICCOLÒ CELEBRATES ITS 40 HARVESTS
Castellina in Chianti, May 2021. 40 harvests, 40 years of history. I Sodi di S. Niccolò, for the second timeranked first Italian Red Wine by adding the scores of the five Italian wine guides and the four most authoritative international wine critics, celebrates its 40 harvests....
The Podere Forte, the star of the Val d’Orcia
In an ancient Tuscan village an engineer-farmer runs a farm that covers 500 hectares, in the Val d'Orcia (UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004), in the hills of Siena. His name is Pasquale Forte and he defines himself as "conductor"....