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Big Stairs, Bigger Potential (Visiting Sicily’s Torre Mora)
While Etna’s Torre Mora hasn’t been in modern operation for very long, it’s already off to as good a start as could be hoped. After all, they’re already making the very best rosé in all of Italy. And yeah, I do really mean that. Now…
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A Step Ahead (A Look Inside Sicily’s Passopisciaro)
I’m immature enough, even in my 50s (!!), to have had trouble getting my head around the translation of Etna’s Passopisciaro when I visited last year during a media jaunt. Foot step? Pissing step? “Pitchpiss?” You see the travails that I have to deal with…
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Wine In The Time of Coronavirus, Part 68: The Last of Us? (Reviewing Rimessa Roscioli Selections)
It’s with mixed emotions that I announce that today’s Wine In The Time of Coronavirus will be the last entry in the series. Given the state of the global pandemic, and the fact that folks like me are now being invited to travel the globe…
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Wine In The Time of Coronavirus, Part 66: “Vivid & Clear” (Revisiting Lugana)
Back in October `22, I was invited for a virtual tasting of various Lugana DOC whites, organized by Civilta del bere and Alessandro Torcoli. Longtime 1WD readers might recall Torcoli, who I met in Argentina when judging the Argentina Wine Awards, and for whose Italian…
