Stop and smell the rosés of Puglia, the heel of the boot of Southern Italy, where rose wine has been a tradition going back to when the Greeks occupied the area 3000 years ago. To this day, Puglia (aka Apulia) is the focal point for rose wine Italy: it makes 40% of Italy’s rose wines, in country which is the biggest producer of rose wines in Europe, after France, in the continent which makes 75% of the world’s rose wines. Find out what rose wine is and how our founder first discovered a dry rose wine, and discover your own rose wine best in this article.

In the countryside of Romagna, Italy, capretto al forno, or oven roasted goat, is a popular recipe, especially when drizzled with a really good Italian olive oil. We have an authentic recipe to share straight from the local trattorias of Romagna, thanks to the Braschi Boys sharing their passions of food, not only wine. In fact, Braschi’s recommended pairing wine with food with this goat recipe is a full bodied red wine: their riserva sangiovese wine. Check it out!

Tucked into the Adriatic coastline, is Le Marche Italy, a region full of delicious wines! They are famous in the world of Italian white wine for their age worthy wines like verdicchio or trebbiano. Discover the white wine grapes of Le Marche, hearing from Lombardy transplant and self-proclaimed Le Marche local Stefano Pintossi with his family farm and winery, Quercia Scarlatta. Find out why he doesn’t cultivate the most famous white wine grape of the region, what drew him to make organic, biodynamic and natural wines, and why he loves Le Marche.

Straight from the land of pasta, comes a journey exploring a traditional filled pasta. While it is not the more well known tortellini, it is just as delicious and versatile. It is tortelli pasta from Romagna, the eastern half of the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Learn all about tortelli in this article, including pairing wine with food, and find an original homemade pasta recipe from one of the Braschi boys, Romagna natives who run the traditional Romagna winery Braschi.

Looking for a new italian white wine to sip this summer? Try Trebbiano Abruzzese, what the New York Times calls one of the “10 Grapes Worth Knowing Better”. Learn about why this trebbiano wine from Abruzzo Italy is unique and special. Get to know the young newcomer to the Abruzzo wine scene, after Emidio Pepe started the trend of making high-quality trebbiano. Explore this up and coming white grape variety in this article.

After you check the boxes off of Rome, Florence and Venice while visiting Italy, what else should you explore while visiting this beautiful country? Emilia Romagna.

Learn about this off-the-beaten path region for tourism and find out from an insider what there is to see and taste in the heartland of Italy. It has many tucked away corners which, sadly, have been damaged by the apocalyptic flooding that recently took place. Hurry and find out more, and help this region so it rebuilds in time for your next visit to Italy.

Discover a new, yet old, Italian white wine grape, Albana. It was the first white wine to get the highest quality designation in Italy, DOCG, yet many people have yet to hear of this Italian white wine. We’ve uncovered the history, tradition, taste, and versatility of the Albana grape from Romagna, including perspectives from a local winery owner, in this article.

You've heard the term, but do you know what biodynamic means?

In this article, we will take you what is biodynamic wine, biodynamic wine vs organic, and what makes up a biodynamic farm.

But it turns out the answer is not easy as you think. Find out why!

What is umami flavor? Do you know that it is considered a fifth taste, after sweet, sour, bitter, and salty? In what foods can you find this fifth taste? Can you find umami in wine as well as food? … You may not know that some wines have umami flavors, or that certain wines pair better with umami dishes than others. Discover the flavor of umami and how it interacts with wines in this article.

Michi Lorenz is a young wild winemaker in Austria. While crafting natural, organic, and biodynamic wines, from his family’s land where they’ve been winemaking since 1524, he is a breath of fresh air to the more typical traditionalists in Austria.

His motto in winemaking is “attention but not interference” to create expressive terroir driven natural wines. Despite his seriousness and talents when it comes to vineyard cultivation and winemaking, his playful side comes out easily, you’ll find out in this article, after we sat down to get to know him at our last VeroTalk where he marries his passions of wine and rock music with his natural wine creations. Discover also why he loves his Sauvignon Blanc white wine that comes from the schist rock of Austria.

We’ve heard the dish Pasta Primavera before, right? Do you know why it’s called primavera?… Spoiler alert, it means spring in Italian, but what does the word primavera come from? Find out in the article and get yourself an authentic trattoria recipe from Italy to make your own sugo for vegetables with pasta, great for pairing with Sauvignon Blanc.

Here is a forager guide to what you can find when going to seek out and explore wild plants around your home, nearby fields and forests, and even in cracks in sidewalks. Use it to identify useful wild plants as you forage for things like spring greens, wildflowers, fennel frond and all sorts of edible wild plants.

Get on your way to start a your own forager kitchen!

We might think of nettles as a nasty weed, but it actually has loads of benefits, from to curing ailments, to being a tasty and nutritional food. Find the inner forager in you as we continue to explore backyard-to-table cuisine in this article with a fresh homemade pasta recipe that uses this wild food plant, making it flavorful and healthy. Check out this article to discover nettles tea benefits, get the nettles pasta recipe, find out what sugo to serve it with, as well as natural wine to pair along.

While farm-to-table is the rage, have you thought about upping it to backyard-to-table?

What wild foods are growing in your backyard, or neighboring fields and woods, that you can add taste and originality to your dishes? And not only - backyard-to-table takes sustainability to the max!

We talked with master forager and vegan chef Beatrice Calia to learn how she cooks with wild foods in her kitchen. Get her tips and tricks in this article.

Our food foraging skills out in the wild may be part of our DNA as hunter-gatherers but the skill is lost. Beatrice Calia, a chef turned author, educator and consultant on wild plants took it upon herself to learn one new plant every day so to be able to live her life and livelihood centered on plants around her home in the hills of Bologna. What inspired Beatrice to become a wild food expert? What is there to know? Find out in this article.

Meet Rosanna Melchionda, a native from Apulia (aka Puglia), in Southern Italy, whose passion for history led to passion for wine. What drives her is her love and commitment to her family and her region. Read this exclusive interview as she takes us through the history, culture and beauty of Puglia, and what is unique about her family estate’s terroir for wine making.

Meet Aldo Clerico, born into a family with vineyards that make some of the best red wines in the world, yet he was the first to make their own wine with them. What prompted him to take this initiative? How did he learn how to make wine? What are his secrets to making the really good Barolo wine? Get to know Aldo Clerico, his Barolo winery and exceptional red wines in this article.

This is the story of a Ukrainian woman, farm raised who winds up immigrating to Italy and heading up a winery in the mountains surrounding Modena, called Frignano. Upon meeting Irene Balim, we were struck by her commitment and passion towards the unknown native grape varieties in her area and to making traditional and natural styles of sparkling wine, trailblazing in the heart of Lambrusco land. This woman in wine and farm girl at heart has an inspiring story. Read it in her words in this exclusive interview with this woman winemaker.

We ‘get’ transitions in life, and are fascinated with sharing how people’s life journey takes them from 1 country to another and from 1 career to another. Learn about woman in wine Tanya Ho-Shue, who grew up and started a family in Jamaica, then London, working in finance, and wound up in the heart of wine country in California, becoming a certified wine expert and working for a top wine school.

Wine and beer lovers need not pick a side! Let us find middle ground in the wine vs beer discussion with something that both can love. Through exploring alternative wines and lambic sour beer, we can find beers that wine lovers can enjoy and pet nat wine that beer fans will fall in love with. In this article we find the common ground between wine and beer, so beer drinkers can find wines that they will enjoy.