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Dinner with Leonardo LoCascio

Last night we hosted Leonardo LoCasio, the Founder and CEO of Winebow at Varano’s. We feature two wine dinners a year at Varano’s, these are the only times I cook personally in the restaurant. I write a special menu for the evening and spend three days preparing the menu with our Chef. It’s alot of [...]

Wines of Veneto

I recently received a phone call from a friend of mine who imports Italian wine in Manhatten. He told me to purchase the 2000 Bertani Amarone. Bertani feels this could be even better than the 1990 Amarone, which was outstanding. You don’t have to tell me twice, I absolutely love Amarone, as a matter of [...]

Vinitaly

I recently returned from Verona, where I attended Vinitaly for five days. Vinitaly is one of the largest wine shows in the world featuring approximately 4,400 wineries and about 100,000 different Italian wines. The show is located in an industrial complex spread out over eighteen different warehouses. Each warehouse is dedicated to a particular region [...]