For us wine-lovers, participating in your first wine-tasting can be a bit daunting. I remember my first tasting as being quite an intimidating experience—I hadn’t ever learnt the real etiquette or the true process. If you feel the same, this post will reveal 3 favourite tools that helped me go from wine amateur to wine confident!

Piedmont was recently recognised by Lonely Planet as the number one region to visit in 2019. Find out three reasons why you’ll want to put it on your bucket list this year!

You can still see the ancient Roman ruins that have left a skeleton upon which Turin was built; Via Garibaldi was constructed by the Romans and remains one of Turin’s main streets, as well as one of the longest pedestrian-only walkways in Europe, if you love shopping Via Garibaldi will be your go-to destination while in Turin.  

Touch up on your knowledge before you travel Piedmont with this brief yet complete run down on the history of Italy’s prior capital state.

Here is a rundown on the labels (or lack of) that you can find around the neck of the bottle. P.S Classifications are not an assurance of quality; they are more of a way to organize the wines in your mind.

As of 2009, there were 948 wineries in Barolo & 426 wineries in Barbaresco alone - trying to find the best producers, requires a whole lot of time, of wine drinking, of talking to people & understanding of what makes a producer “good”.