“What a fabulous fair!” Imagine entering a fantastic space (an ancient train station, from what I understand) rebuilt with the latest technology, and filled with some of the best wine producers in Tuscany.   This was the 2012 Buy Wine event, which allowed the trade to meet producers small and large, and taste some of [...]

  Just imagine excavating a space for a winery and finding rocks so large and fascinating you are compelled to change plans and create a “glass cellar” so that visitors (and workers too, of course) can look out from the underground space and see the incredible collection of large rocks that form the basis of [...]

“My great-grandmother was famous for being a harsh negotiator,” Gaia Gaja tells me, telling a cute story about her great-grandmother and her marketplace shopping habits, which explains the name of the winery which means “endless negotiations” in Italian. Apparently, buying the land from a merchant family took many years and hence the name. Gaia is [...]

  Isn’t this art incredibly gorgeous? Who would have thought that it is located in a Tuscan winery, not a museum! It is part of a program created by Tenuta dell’Ornellaia in 2009 designed to celebrate the “marriage” between art and wine … one that celebrates the character of each new vintage of Ornellaia. The [...]

Professor Attilio Scienza Seminar Tasting "The Italians seem so happy to be here in New York," says a friend, after the Friday night close of the Italian Wine Exchange Grand Tasting. "Why is  that?" Yes, it’s true – the Italians did really seem happy to be here and have the opportunity to share their wine [...]