Muscadine wine

Is muscadine wine the new champagne? It just seems so. This is what has been happening lately. As soon as Jay Z, the partner of Beyoncé, decided to boycott the French wine choosing muscadine, the rap world has gone mad…

From Bisanzio wine to the Chianti wine: a journey through time!  

When you think of red Tuscan wine your mind immediately goes to the Chianti area. However if you just go south two hundred miles from that zone, you discover something you would have never imagined. We are referring to Montepulciano…

Sweet red wines

History tells us that the red sweet wines were precious and  tasted only during some special religious worship and practices from the highest echelons of power, so by kings and emperors. The sweet wine has supporters and detractors, but today we…

Chianti wine: Classico Collection

On February 13 and 14 at the Leopolda Station in Florence was held “Chianti Classico Collection 2017“, the presentation of the new year of Chianti Classico: 185 wineries, 87 of the Chianti Classico Great Selection and above all, 57 preview…

Tuscan wine tours with Angie

We think that quality is very important in every aspect, and as we saw,  the quality always reward. For this reason,  we  select our wineries carefully and we have built since 2003 special relationships with  small tuscan wineries producing  the Chianti Wine, the Chianti…

Oxygen into the Wine: good and bad factor

Where we talk about vineyards and wine, it is correct to speak of oxygen for wine, because oxygen into the wine, should be dosed with intelligence to create important “things”, sustainable and deeper: sometime it must be assumed in small…

Tuscany countryside: pruning season, when the past and the future meet

To Prune a vine has the main purpose of controlling the quality and quantity of grapes that you will want to collect: this is done by acting on the number of buds that the winemaker decides to leave on the…

Wine tour to Machiavelli’s Chianti Villa

“VILLA”: A WORD FULL OF MEANING In Italy we say “we go in villa” to say “we go to the countryside” to reconnect ourselves with nature; from the ancient Latin word “Villa” means tuscan countryside, farm and land. Many centuries…

Wood, terracotta, concret and steel: the wine houses.

IRON AND STEEL In Italy to say that a person is safe, at work, in life and love is said to “being in a iron barrel”, a phrase that is probably from ancient Rome when the soldiers were traveling with…