The Blog of Dolce Oltrepo
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Success for Bacuco & Pezzabianca
Tuesday 25 November
On November 13th & 14th 2008 I took part in a wine tasting event at the Restaurant ‘t Scheperken in Blaasveld with the Bacuco and Pezzabianca. Well, they have been the protagonists of the events and despite the competition with red French wines and other importants wines from Toscana and Piemonte, the Bacuco and the Pezzabianca have been appreciated by the customers. The prove was the number o... -
Restaurant Arte
Monday 28 July
Do you really feel like eating a real Italian pizza, but you can’t fly to Italy? We nominated Restaurant Arte in Antwerpen (Suikerrui 24) as the pizza place! They serve the best pizza I had since I came to Belgium. I like it because the pizza is not really thin, well cooked topped with the stringy tasty mozzarella (which often is not the case at other pizza places). The other night, I tr... -
’t Tegendeel
Monday 28 July
Since it’s the right period to eat mussels, Saturday we decided to go to the coast. Without any doubt we decided to go to Knokke. We really like the town, it is a rich and fashionable place. It is a nice place to have a drink in one of the many bars and brasseries along the promenade and look at the people. We choose among the hundred of restaurants available the ‘t Tegendeel. We made... -
Snapshoots in Oltrepo
Saturday 28 June
Torre Pentagonale (Tower with 5 sides) in Rivanazzano
Church tower in Rivanazzano
Torre Pentagonale (tower with 5 sides) in Rivanazzano
Vineyard in Santa Maria della Versa
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Sunset in Oltrepo
Friday 13 June
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My vineyard
Friday 13 June
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Petition for a true and traditional Brunello di Montalcino
Sunday 25 May
The “Enoclub of Siena”, a group of people strongly passionate about the Brunello wine, launched an online petition addressed to the “Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino”. The petition says: As a group of people passionate about wine, we ask respect for the tradition of the Sangiovese grosso grapes cultivated in Montalcino. The modern agriculture, with massive use ... -
Blind Tasting
Monday 19 May
Source: Good Grape
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Bonarda Oltrepò in the top ten selling list
Tuesday 1 April
Chianti was the number one selling denomination of origin (Doc, Docg, Igt) for 2006 in large-scale distribution centers like supermarkets. The most popular denominations after Chianti are as follows: Montepulciano d\'Abruzzo, Sangiovese, Nero d\'Avola, Merlot, Pinot, Bonarda, Barbera, Vermentino and Barbera d\'Asti. This is the top ten classification according to an AC-Nielsen survey for Vinitaly,... -
Oltrepo Pavese wines at PROWEIN 2008
Wednesday 5 March
10 wine producers from the Oltrepo Pavese area will attend the Prowein 2008 exhibition in Dusseldorf from the 16th to the 18th of March. With the coordination of the Consorzio Tutela Vini Oltrepò Pavese and the Chamber of Commerce of Pavia a common stand will be set up in Halle 3 n° 3K141. Here you will find all the Producers showing their wines and a dedicated welcome area, managed by... -
The not-to-do list
Tuesday 4 March
Are you sure that your preferred “Italian Restaurant” is really an Italian Restaurant? Check it out! “Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, there is a lot of confusion concerning dishes of Italian Cuisine in the world. Therefore, chefs and restaurateurs working outside Italy who really want to offer authentic Italian Cuisine must offer dishes as they are made in good restaur... -
Virtual Group of Italian Chefs
Tuesday 4 March
I was readying some news in the blog of Ivan Musoni, owner of the restaurant Ca’ Vegia in Salice Terme, and I found one that made me happy to be Italian. It is the kind of news that the entire Italian cuisine supporters should be happy for and that should be read by all the foreigners that still believe that a good Pasta Carbonara must drown in the cream. Have you ever been advice to have a ... -
Un mondo di Pinot Nero
Sunday 2 March
On Sunday 17th, at the Città del Gusto del Gambero Rosso in Rome, has been organized the meeting “Un mondo di Pinot nero: L’Oltrepo Pavese” (A world of Pinot Nero: The Oltrepo Pavese). Daniele Cernilli, co-director of the Gambero Rosso has closed the meeting saying these words “The Pinot nero in Oltrepo Pavese, in comparison with the others Pinot nero in the world, m... -
Italy's Divisionist Painters
Friday 29 February
From the 18 of June to the 7 of September 2008 the National Gallery in London will host an exhibition about the Italy's Divisionist Painters, Morbelli, Previati, Russolo, Longoni and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo was born in Volpedo, a village on the Oltrepo Pavese border side, in 1868 into a family of small landowners and wine maker. Having completed his academic stud...
