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Wine Travel Guides comes to Tuscany: a review
If you’re an enthusiastic wine-tourist, or would like to be, you need to meet Wine Travel Guides. The venture was launched in 2007 to offer wine lovers the essential information for planning a private wine tour. There are now 50 regularly updated micro-region guides to download or view online, including 2 new ones on Tuscany. It’s a well-timed expansion: the region was recognised this month for excellence in wine tourism.
An annual subscription offering unlimited access to all 50 guides is £49, or download a single guide for £7.50.
The two Tuscany mini-guides are packed with just the sort of detailed wine tourism information likely to be missing from a mainstream guidebook. Author Michèle Shah has an impressive pedigree in Italian wine, and shows it off with plenty of winemaking and DOC(G) knowledge. There’s just the right portion of technical nuggets for a proper enthusiast. Read the rest of this entry »
Ragani – Umbria’s Best Olive Oil
Here’s a couple of shots sent to me by the folks that run the Ragani family olive oil business. If you’re anywhere near Assisi or Spello, be sure to stop in on their frantoio (p. 206), for trying and buying. Their first cold-pressed Colli Assisi Spoleto DOP Umbria was the best we tasted in Umbria.
Driving directions are here.
