Vendemmia 2014 Continues at Cascina Delle Rose in Barbaresco Last month, in an earlier post, I introduced you to Giovanna Rizzolio and her family at Cascina delle Rose in the Barbaresco appellation of Piemonte.

Many winery doors in Europe are thick, wooden barriers to domains through which centuries of winemakers have passed. On the edge of Barolo’s central district, on Via Vittorio Veneto just below sprawling Nebbiolo vineyards, there is one such door. A shiny brass sign affixed on the right of the door…

  Romancing the Grape at Cascina delle Rose From far away, wine lovers romanticize about the process of making wine. They long to participate in a harvest, to experience the crush of vinous fruit and inhale a winery’s intoxicating, musty odors fermentation creates.

  In 2004, my husband Dani met Paola and Valentina Grasso at a Barbaresco tasting in the village by the same name.  He was snakebit by the wines and charmed by the knowledge and professionalism of the two young Grasso women.  Fast forward 10 years.  The three sisters – Paola,…

  Whoever concocted the Italian proverb – Mangiare per vivere e non vivere per mangiare (eat to live and not live to eat) – obviously never dined at Il Centro in Priocca, Italy. Had that survivalist visited the decades-old temple to Piemontese cuisine, they definitely would have wanted “to live…