This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine event featured Livio Felluga, a large award-winning winery from the northern Friuli area of Italy. The wine tasting begin in Piazza Repubblica in front of the Molesini Wine Shop.  Marco Molesini and a very handsome representative from Livio Felluga poured tastes of the wine. It had rained cats and dogs earlier in the day but luckily stopped just an hour before the tasting started.  They still had...

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This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine event in Cortona on Thursday, July 11th, will feature Livio Felluga with very special guest, Maurizio Felluga. Livio Felluga, located in the Friuli region, is considered on of the area’s most impressive wineries and is also credited with re-establishing the area’s winemaking heritage after World War II by reviving old vineyards, planting new ones and bringing about fresh ideas. These are the wines...

Friday evening in Cortona there was a wonderful collaboration between Baracchi Winery and Ristorante Il Comanchero, located just outside of the walls of the Cortona on the hillside with beautiful views of the Val di Chiana. Guests were greeted with a glass of Baracchi sparkling wine and this blogging diva was encouraged by Benedetto Baracchi to help open one of the bottles in a very traditional way using a sciabola (sword). Benedetto showed me...

Tasting menu for dinner by Trattoria Dardano at Agriturismo Castel Girardi:  APERITIVO : Fantasia di antipasto a buffet Pensiero Pinot Grigio delle Venezie IGT 2012 Tuscan Sun Wines ANTIPASTO : Sformatino al Tartufo Tondo Tondo IGT Toscana 2011 Tuscan Sun Wines PRIMO PIATTO : Pennette allo Speck – Tagliatelle al profumo di bosco Sentiero alla casa IGT Toscana 2012 Tuscan Sun Wines SECONDO PIATTO : Caramelle di maiale ai funghi porcini con...