Mr Spittoon makes an excellent spag bol. It might not be ‘traditional’ however it’s jammed packed with deliciousness with all your favourite ingredients + things like black olives and mushrooms. I love red wine with my spaghetti and if I can get my hands on an Italian red wine, even better! I was ever so…
Cheese, prosciutto and Italian Rosé. Thank you so much to Romulus Wine Selectors, specialists in bringing in Italian wine to Australia, for this sample bottle of their 2016 Le Fonti Toscana Rosato.
February 9th is #WorldPizzaDay so I thought I’d get some practice in before the big day! When #wine and #pizza matching, you really can’t go wrong with an Italian tipple. After visiting Tuscany back in 2011 it really sparked my love of Chianti and thanks to the team at Vino Bambino they recently introduced me…
On the 11th day of Christmas, The Wine Gallery sent to me, a bottle of Toscolo 2016 Chianti from Tuscany in Italy. If you saw my video this morning, then you’ll know as soon as I opened door number 11 on my advent calendar and saw this, I was destined to have a tomato-based pasta. There…
Apparently it is this Tuscan city that turns your average person into an art gallery loving freak… Yes I could see how that could happen but in our case it did not. The simple reason is we would much rather buy a couple of nice bottles of Chianti than pay 11€ each to see David’s…
It was only by luck that I came across a snippet on an Internet article about the Montefioralle Estate about 2km’s out of Greve in Chianti. I sent off e-mails to various estates, as I knew having only given 2 days notice that many people wouldn’t get back to me. Luckily for me, Lorenzo Sieni…
Everyone knows Tuscan wines, particularly Chianti but when you’re planning on visiting the famed Tuscan wine country – it is not so easy to work out where to go and how to get there. Let alone making reservations to visit wineries. Tuscany is not public transport friendly. As I have a Eurail train pass, I…