Sweet & Fortified Wines
Passito, sweet and fortified wines: meditation wines at their finest.
Passito Wine Tre Filer Ca' dei Frati
Dear friends of Wineatwine, today I want to tell you about a passito wine produced by a winery I have already written about in another article regarding a pairing between Risi&bisi and Lugana I Frati. This wine is composed of three grape varieties: 60% Trebbiano ...
Passion: the hidden gem of Cantine Apicella
Cantina Apicella is one of those small southern wineries that truly does excellent work! This estate was born from the entrepreneurial spirit of Giuseppe Apicella, descendant of a family of farmers, who in 1977 decided to create a label and begin selling his 3,000 bottles of Vino Rosso Tramonti...
Icewine or Eiswein: What Are Ice Wines?
Ice wines: this is the Italian term used to define a particular type of dessert wine produced in limited quantities due to low yields and the countless difficulties in the harvesting and winemaking phases. In most...
Passito di Primitivo paired with "sfogliatella frolla"
What do my eyes see: Passito di Primitivo! A modern, colourful box that catches the eye: Cantina Ariano. We have talked about San Severo in Puglia many times, as well as about Primitivo, but never in the same article! Gioia del Colle and Manduria are certainly more suitable locations for this famous Puglian grape variety, but this time curiosity takes centre stage.
Dalmatia in a Glass: l'Ambra
Liquefied Ambra that comes from the sea. I'm sitting at my kitchen table. It must be a good 20 minutes that I've been lost staring at a totally black bottle. There it is, between an old-fashioned corkscrew and a glass of cheap wine that saves itself o...
Let's Discover Passito Wines Together
Fascinating and charming with aromas ranging from ripe fruit to jam, from sweet spices to enamel-like notes, Passiti wines captivate every palate with their softness. They are often obtained from late harvest, meaning the grape clusters are left to over-ripen directly on the vine, harvested weeks after the usual picking...
Sauternes, the Archetype of Wine
Sauternes is a true miracle of nature, taking place fifty kilometers south of the French city of Bordeaux. In this evocative landscape flows the Ciron river, a small tributary of the Garonna, which undoubtedly plays a fundamental role in this precious passito wine...
Muffato della Sala, a Family Excellence
Muffato della Sala is a wine produced by the Antinori winery, conceived through the love and passion of Piero Antinori for France. The wine takes its name from a noble mold, Botrytis Cinerea. This mold, when able to develop fully...