Beautiful Wines, From Beautiful Grapes

When asked about the vision of her winery, Ilaria Petitto, managing director of Donnachiara winery, responds; “To make beautiful wines, you must have beautiful grapes.” Donnachiara may only be twelve years old, and in relative terms a smaller winery producing 12,500 cases, but I think they are going to be a winery to winelovers will begin…

Podcast Ep. 64; Welcome to Winephabet Street; N is for Negroamaro

Welcome to our next installment of #WinephabetStreet. In this series, Debbie Gioquindo and I will be working our way through the wine world by way of the alphabet. Each month we will take the next letter in the alphabet and learn the characteristics and history of the grape, as well as suggested wine pairings. So uncork,…