Mario’s sons working the booth at Vin Italy Helen Gallo of Winebow and my daughter Vanessa Nestled at the base of Mount Vulture is a dynamic winery called Bisceglia. It was founded in 2001 by Mario Bisceglia, and designed by Japanese architect, Hikaru Mori along with Italian architect Domenico Santomauro. This state of the art [...]
When I travel to Italy, my main focus is food and wine, I love to discover a new wine for Varano’s, one that is available in the United States and that fits into our format. I love driving through wine country and seeing all the vineyards, planted in perfect rows. The scenic vistas that vineyards [...]
There was a time when Maine Restaurateurs never had wine reps from abroad stop by and visit. To say times have changed is an understatement, we’ve had more top producers visit our restaurant in the last year than the previous three combined. Typically, when an Italian producer lands in Boston, his itinerary consists of the [...]
Everyone thinks February is all about Valentine’s Day and Love. I’m not going to tell you to forget about your husband, wife, girlfriend, boyfriend or significant other. What I am going to tell you is that every month is wine lovers month. My Dad’s birthday is in February and we celebrated at Varano’s. My Dad’s [...]
Mr. Varano says: I know this is a wine blog, and I sure don’t want to write about politics. We live in a world where it’s hard to decide what’s real and what isn’t. Politicians pander and shout rhetoric at us, the media bombards us with half truths. As consumers, our job is to wade [...]
With the Euro and Italian wine rising like an Apollo rocket, restaurants are witnessing a decline in high-end wine sales. This is where savvy owners and consumers alike have to be creative and do their homework. We have had an unprecedented run of great vintages in Italian wines, typically in a great vintage, the difference [...]
One of my favorite places to visit in Italy, is Tuscany. I love driving through the countryside and taking pictures of all the vineyards, or stopping for lunch in a little medieval town. Tuscany is a timewarp, you feel the passion of the people. You sense what it was like before machinery was used for [...]
At Varano’s Italian Restaurant, we love to reward our customers, in May we ran a promotion for our rewards members, the prize being a private wine tasting for a customer and up to eleven friends. Elizabeth Seavey of Kennebunkport was the winner and she brought her husband and six of their friends for an evening [...]
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