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Archives for November 2017

Vermouth: 10 things I learned in Barcelona

20/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace 1 Comment

When was the last time someone told you they love vermouth? I’ve just spent 4 days tasting vermouth and when I tell people this I get odd looks and grimaces. There’s a vague idea that it is old-fashioned, too sweet, not trendy, and besides, what exactly do you do with it or like about it? […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: absinthe, Barcelona, bars, Catalonia, cocktails, France, Italy, manhattan, martini, Reus, vermouth, vermut, wormwood

For the love of goats and sheep

19/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace Leave a Comment

Wine and cheese are classic buddies, and pairings from the mountains anywhere are among my favourites. I live in the Swiss Alps, at 1,100 metres, with a small herd of beautiful Val d’Hérens cows next door; in spring and fall they eat down the pastures that surround my garden, and in early winter I listen […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Garden & nature Tagged With: Alps, cheese, goat, mountains, sheep, wine

Architecture and wine: Italy’s Carapace succeeds

08/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace 3 Comments

Final article in a 4-part series Wine-alive inside a living sculpture, a photo montage The Carapace, a winery designed by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro for the Ferrari estate Tenuta Castelbuono near Montefalco, is a rarity, for it is everything an architectural masterpiece and working winery should be (see my article on Medium). The Lunelli family, […]

Filed Under: Wineries Tagged With: architecture, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Carapace, Italy, Montefalco, Tenuta Lunelli - Tenuta Castelbuono, Umbria, winery

Sagrantino’s technical tamers

07/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

Third in a 4-part series How to make great wine despite astringent tannins If a wine has strong tannins, you cellar it until it becomes drinkable, right? That’s one step, but there is quite a lot more to getting a good wine from grapes with very strong tannins. Sicily’s Nero d’Avola is the grape I’ve […]

Filed Under: Travels, Wineries Tagged With: Antonelli, Caprai, Còlpetrone, Consorzio Montefalco, DOCG, Perticaia, polyphenols, Sagrantino, tannins

Best of Sagrantino

04/11/2017 by Ellen Wallace 2 Comments

part 2 of 3 articles on Montefalco’s Sagrantino wines Montefalco’s top wines: my picks A note about prices: the Montefalco Rossos, which are blends, vary from about €10 to 15 (cellar prices), sometimes higher for reserves, and in Europe you can expect to pay anywhere from €18 to 40 for Sagrantino wines, with higher prices […]

Filed Under: Food & dining, Wineries Tagged With: Antonelli, Italy, Lungarotti, Montefalco, Persecaia, rosso, Sagrantino, Tenuta Rocca di Fabbri, Tenute del Cerro Còpetrone, Tenute Lunelli - Tenuta Castelbuono, Trebbiano Spoletino, Umbria

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