Vin Santo is a traditional dessert wine, with origins in Italy. Vin Santo means wine of the Saints—or holy wine; it is often used for communion, and happens to be bottled right around Easter. It is known as the wine of friendship and hospitality, and myth declares a 14th century friar gave it to the [...]

It is not the last time I will show up to taste Chianti wine. There was a tent set up in Piazza Repubblica over the weekend, hosting 7 different wineries from the Chianti region referred to as LAMOLE (a subregion within Chianti Classico). (The Chianti region is one of 7 regions that make up Tuscany; [...]

So I sent an email with inadequate Italian (I used Google translator), to an Agriturismo in the Maremma region of Tuscany. (I am planning a Tuscan road trip with my family: 6 days of driving around to see everything an adolescent boy would want to see: Etruscan caves, Napoleon’s castle, a mining museum full of [...]

I love learning about Italian wine, glass by glass, region by region. I had a short writing stint (a few articles) with a travel company in Tuscany, and one of the articles I wrote about was Chianti. It was an excuse to ‘cozy up to the bar.’
Since we arrived in Florence this past August, we [...]

I love this town. We only visited because I had an interview—to write articles on all that is available to tourists in Tuscany. It looks promising; sign me up to research on the art, history, food and culture of Tuscany.
Castellina in Chianti is a small, quaint hilltop town south of Florence by about an hour. [...]