by Patricia Guy | Mar 4, 2020 | Patricia's Diary, Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
ANTEPRIMAS AND ALPINI A SHORT PREFACE I took the train from Verona to Umbria to attend Anteprima [preview of] Sagrantino. People in the train wore masks over their noses and mouths and the air was infused with the fierce lemony-sweet scent of handwash. Hushed voices...
by Patricia Guy | Oct 31, 2019 | Patricia's Diary, Wine & Spirits blog
October 18 Amarone tasting at Valentina Cubi’s Valentina picked us up from the bus stop in Valpolicella and whisked us to her winery, where some thirty wine aficionados gathered for a vertical tasting of her Amarone “Morar”: 1997, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012. Valentina,...
by Patricia Guy | Sep 19, 2019 | Wine & Spirits blog
Verona, where I have made my home for over twenty years, is seventy-five miles from Venice, one hundred miles from Milan and light years from El Dorado, Kansas, where I grew up reading Black Arrow, Nancy Drew, and The Three Musketeers. I would climb right down inside...
by Patricia Guy | Feb 8, 2015 | Wine & Spirits, Wine & Spirits blog
There is no other important red quite like Amarone. Amarone is a celebration of the senses. Its heady fragrance overflows with scents of cherries, ripe plums and violets, as well as intriguing wisps of plump raisins and Church incense. Its zone of production, its...
