We’ve updated our wine list for the 2009 season. It’s becoming very challenging to keep our list current. Vendors are consolidating constantly and wines change importers regularly. Our goal is, keep wines on our list that we consider to be great values, unique wines or hard to find gems. We constantly search for new wines [...]
Every year I attend Vin Italy, I get excited and come back and share my experiences with my family and friends. There is one experience I’ve never written about and I feel bad I’ve never shared this with everyone. Most wineries in the Veneto region are known for their Valpolicella and Amarone. There is one [...]
I just returned from Vin Italy and I don’t even know where to start. I spent four days with my daughter and closest friend tasting Italian wine. Vin Italy is located in Verona, which is in the heart of the Veneto region. Valpolicella and Amarone are the wine of choice in a region steeped in [...]
I started collecting wine in 1987, it was sort of a novelty at the time for me, which in turn grew to become my passion. The hardest part of starting my wine collection was the first fifty bottles. I would reach about twenty bottles of wine, have a dinner party, invite friends over and then [...]
It’s hard to believe our seven week winter break has come and gone. The holidays were wonderful, my wife and I spent two weeks in the British West Indies, got a tan and still managed to enjoy some great Italian Wine. I couldn’t believe the nice selection of Italian Wine available in the Turks and [...]
One of the main reasons for traveling to Verona every spring and attending Vin Italy is the exposure I get to Italian wines. Unfortunately, owning an Italian Restaurant in Southern Maine is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is we’re a half mile from the beach, overlooking the Rachel Carson wildlife preserve, and we’re [...]
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