Guided wine tours in the Umbrian region of Italy
I know, I know! It’s not about Umbria – but it is about WINE! Italian wine at that! So, it goes in! If you’re close to Bologna on Wednesday 27th March, head towards the nearby Regionale Enoteca Emilia Romagna, south of Bologna. You will need to reserve a spot, so here’s where I found the information: http://www.italianwinesandfood.com/events-festivals-italy/romagna-and-tuscany-in-a-sangiovese-tasting-0884. …
Emilia Romagna & Tuscany Sangiovese Tasting – 27th March 2013.Read More
Phew! Wot a Scorcher! (With quiet apologies to the Sun or the Mirror years ago!) (Wrote this piece near the end of September) We’re lucky, we have the best of both worlds. Where we live looks out over vineyards, our back garden is a small vineyard, but the vines are rented out to a small …
Busy, Busy, Busy!! No apologies for not writing for a while, we have a great excuse! In only our second year, we are exceeding even our own expectations and we’re wonderfully busy and each day brings us new friends along with a daily reason to show off Umbria and a little of what she has …
We have the perfect job! We love wine and we do wine tours concentrating mostly on the Montefalco area of Umbria. Why Montefalco? Well, we think the wines produced in this small area of Umbria are nothing short of spectacular – and they’re right on our doorstep! The king of the wines here is the …
(Originally published in Castiglione del Lago’s newsletter) Snapshot of Sagrantino.Read More
FIRST PUBLISHED JUNE 1ST 2011 … BUT I LOVED THE SPRINGLIKE PHOTOS, SO I’M REPUBLISHING IT! They really don’t call Umbria the Green Heart of Italy for nothing, you know! Right now it’s really living up to its name with the blossoming of that almost fluorescent-lime spring green. The vines are suddenly looking like they …
We originally thought when we first started Gusto Wine Tours that this would be the busiest day of the year – Cantine Aperte (Open Wineries). We were also under the impression that only Umbria did this open day. We were wrong on both counts. The world and his wife descend on the cantine on this …
Gusto’s take on – The Last Sunday of May – Cantine Aperte.Read More
The Colours of Autumn What’s your favourite time of year? When you’ve watched the vines bud, flourish, produce bunches of grapes, see the grapes being picked … I wait with impatient anticipation for the autumn colours to unfold. … Especially the Sagrantino leaves. When you look across the gently rolling hills with the rows …
Whoever said that moving was one of the most stressful things you can do in your life was so right! Anyone else who has been through the same thing recently will forgive me instantly for not writing for months! Even writing this has taken something like 2 weeks because I’m trying to catch up with …
(Umbrian)Wine, (Umbrian)Wine and more (Umbrian)Wine Please!Read More
I couldn’t believe my eyes on the 1st September – there I was wasting time on the computer as usual and, of course, occasionally gazing out the window – I do have a rather spectacular view of Montefalco and the rows of vines at the back of the house – when suddenly there appeared a …
L’Infiorata di Cannara The community effort of the Infiorata in Cannara is truly something special to see! We were introduced to the Infiorata back in 2002 when we were in our campervan and staying by lake Trasimeno. A fellow camperisti told us that we simply MUST see the flowers and that there would be a …
L’Infiorata – An amazing flower festival.. With a twist!Read More
WINE has been with us for thousands of years, and, fortunately, shows no signs of going away soon. But the way we drink and see wine has changed quite dramatically. A few hundred years ago, it wasn’t unusual for an English breakfast to consist of a lot of roast meat, washed down with a flagon …
A different way of doing business…. Sometimes we are struck by the little differences we see living here in Italy as opposed to when we lived in England. The barter system is very much alive and living in rural Umbria. The longer we live here, the more we see of this very sensible exchange. Nothing …
Valle di Assisi – A dinner in elegant surroundings.Read More
8 Years and Counting...
