This week’s Wine, Dine & Shine featured Montalcino winery Castiglion del Bosco along with very special guest, owner Massimo Ferragamo, also quite famous for being in the fashion industry and the son of Salvatore Ferragamo. The evening started off with the free tasting event in front of the Molesini Wine Shop and apparently quite a few other people had heard about it and were there to taste the wines! I’ve been a big fan of...

This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine event in Cortona on Thursday, June 27th, will feature Vino Libero, an association that brings together 12 wine producers  committed  to each other,  one towards the other,  to apply a model of  sustainable agriculture  that is both economically viable, environmentally responsible and socially just. These are the wines they will be pouring at the free tasting from 4 -8 p.m. in front of Molesini Wine Shop in...

This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine event in Cortona on Thursday, June 20th, will feature Montalcino winery Castiglion del Bosco at Il Ristorante Tonino on their outside panoramic terrace (weather permitting). For those of you who have never tried Castiglion del Bosco, I highly suggest you either come for the free tasting in front of the Molesini Wine Shop that starts at 4:00 p.m. or reserve for the dinner, these are not wines to be taken...

It’s rough being a wine blogger.  I mean all these dinners and tastings to write about.  I’m currently behind in posting all the goings on as I speak! BUT, I wanted to give the inside scoop on one of Cortona’s newest hidden gems and the amazing pairings they are designing. Benvenuto Zaffiro Rosso, a small intimate little wine bar located within Del Brenna Jewellery’s new beautiful showroom underneath Cortona! Being good...

This week’s Wine, Shine & Dine featured our very own Fabrizio Dionisio who makes one of my favorite Cortona Syrahs. I caught up with Fabrizio at the free tasting in front of the Molesini Wine Shop while sampling all of his newest vintages. Fabrizio is a very modest soft spoken lawyer turned winemaker who still divides his time between Rome and his family estate just outside of Cortona.  He makes only Syrah wines, about 25,000 bottles...