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Luxury Travel and Lifestyle News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Planning the perfect destination wedding in Italy? The romantic essence and fanciful elegance of Tuscany has long captured the hearts of brides looking to plan the perfect destination wedding. These are some of our top Tuscany wedding villas offering nothing but the best for your big day. These picturesque luxury villas exude elegance, romance and beauty in spacious estates catering...
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The Majestic Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Our Majestic Ayr Manager, Jonathan Wilson, recently returned from his honeymoon in Tuscany and reports here on his experiences of Tuscan wine. We like to talk about having a passion for wine at Majestic, so when the time came to plan my honeymoon, I couldn’t resist incorporating some of my favourite wines into our romantic getaway. [...]
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Berry Bros. & Rudd Fine Wine Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... not sure whether they should play the ‘We’re so like Bordeaux’ card or champion the ‘Sangiovese is Tuscany’s Pinot Noir’ instead. Marco Pallanti, also President of the Chianti Classico Consorzio (representing the growers) was in no doubt as he attended the very first gathering of the three Tuscan Sangiovese DOCG Consorzi (Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, and Brunello di Montalcino)...
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Small Bites (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Tuscany Bistro will host a benefit called Dining for D.O.V.E. from 5 to 10 p.m. Dec. 3. A three-course $25 menu will be served during a fashion show. Proceeds will be donated to NY Presbyterian Hospital’s D.O.V.E. program, (Domestic and Other Violent Emergencies.) All the info, in a press release, after the jump. Planned is an elegant [...]
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On the Wine Trail in Italy (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The road to Querciavalle ~ June 1987 One of the great things about being on the wine trail in Italy for all these years is the precious opportunity to see the baton passed from an older family member to the younger generation. The first time I met the Illuminati kids, they were young teenagers. Now they run the winery and are my colleagues. One of my longest watched wineries in Tuscany is a...
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Food & Wine TV (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
http://www.bkwine.com/wine_tours/wine_tours.htm --- Harvest at Isole e Olena winery in Chianti, Tuscany. Harvesting the grapes with a tractor - mechanical harvest machine. You can see the ripe grape bunches in the vineyard before harvest and the naked grape stems that remain after the harvester has passed. In the vineyard in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy. - Machine a vendanger pour les vendanges...
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Tourism of Cardiff (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Tuscany, beautiful Italian region located in the central part of the country, its capital is the beautiful city of Florence, his heritage is shaped by its architecture, sculptures, paintings, so much so that six of the towns of this region were declared as World Heritage by UNESCO. Region beautiful spring countryside!. Known also for its excellent [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... Silenzio, a breathtaking open-air theater, holding up to 8,000 people, among the rolling hills of Tuscany, for a night of music and romance. This world-class event is sure to be a night to remember.
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Villa Break Holidays (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
What a delight a holiday or short break is in Italy and one of the best loved regions to getaway to and enjoy is Tuscany. The Holiday Villas in Tuscany give you the ideal place to stay so you can get out and about and explore everything that this wonderful within this part of Italy and all that it has to offer. The pure essence of this region can be found in the stunning countryside and...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Chia bought the Castello Romitorio winery, a crumbling castle and estate in the Siena hills of Tuscany, and has since transformed it into one of the top producers of Tuscany's most famous wines, Brunello di Montalcino. Restoring the castle and winery is one of his life works, and the aromatic Brunello wines seem to parallel the man himself — transformed through aging and now...
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talk of tomatoes (Free subscription) | yesterday
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. [...]
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49 Writers (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... can LOOK like art. That photo above, utilizing figs and a fig leaf picked from just outside our Tuscany apartment door, reminds me of a Caravaggio still-life. Sometimes, it felt like the whole day was structured around the morning trip to the market (whether in Rome, or down a steep hill from our apartment in Tuscany, or in the Piedmont city of Asti). To get supplies for a day or...
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wrongful-convictions (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... anniversary of the abolition of capital punishment from a European state, by the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in 1786. The approval, in the last two years, of two resolutions for a universal moratorium on capital punishment in the General Assembly of the United Nations confirm a change in sentiment in the world to a new and higher threshold, to respect for human rights. According to Amnesty International's...
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EIN Presswire (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... judging ACF sanctioned culinary competitions. Chef Tanner's Boot Camp theme is "A Taste of Tuscany." Students will learn about traditional Italian cuisines, classic Italian ingredients, Antipasti, Primi (pasta, polenta and risotto), Italian ingredients, pairing wine with Italian dishes, and creating Italian desserts. Brief seminars combined with extensive hands-on cooking time...
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EINNews Press Releases (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... judging ACF sanctioned culinary competitions. Chef Tanner's Boot Camp theme is "A Taste of Tuscany." Students will learn about traditional Italian cuisines, classic Italian ingredients, Antipasti, Primi (pasta, polenta and risotto), Italian ingredients, pairing wine with Italian dishes, and creating Italian desserts. Brief seminars combined with extensive hands-on cooking time...
