Tag Archives: red wine

Morellino di Scansano

By Janelle | Published 02/14/2010

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 gemstones, hot sulfur hot springs, Leonardo da Vinci’s house and San Galgano where… [more]

what you should know about Chianti wines and vines…

By Janelle | Published 12/09/2009

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 have been sampling wines (duh). Chianti refers to both a wine and a… [more]