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Italian Wine Origin

The Origins of Italian Wine

Italy is one of the largest wine producers in the world. This incredible quantity of wine, exported and consumed worldwide, comes from almost three thousand years of tradition, experimentation, and research. The oldest reference to wine found in history is in the 6th century BC, in Campania, where the technique was to grow the vines

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How to make Cappuccino

Cappuccino, History And Curiosities

Cappuccino is the Italian beverage for excellence, consisting of Espresso coffee and steamed milk. Italy is the largest consumer of Cappuccino in the world. This is traditionally eaten during the morning, at breakfast or sometimes in the afternoon, but never during meals. The Italians in the morning are divided between those who have breakfast with

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Lambrusco Wine Italy

What is Lambrusco Wine?

Lambrusco is a sparkling wine produced in Emilia-Romagna. It has a reputation for being very food-friendly and excellent value. Lambrusco is known to be an industrial-scale production of sweet, easy-drinking, and even uninteresting sparkling wines. This is not entirely fair as there are some very fine examples of Lambrusco wine made with the same care

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Italian Red Wine

Top Italian Red Wines That You Might Want to Try

Italian cuisine is world-renowned and offers a plethora of taste sensations only matched by classical French food. Almost everyone knows about pasta and pizzas, but fewer are familiar with the incredible selection of Italian wines. However, Italy is famous among wine aficionados for its wide selection of wines that can be combined with food or

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Cooking With Red Wine Ragu

The Art of Cooking with Wine

Cooking with wine is everything but unusual, especially in Italian cuisine. Many recipes will use it, however very few go above and beyond to explain the science behind it. Today we’re going to take a look at the ways you can use and be creative with wine in the kitchen. Let’s start with the basics…

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wine grower picking grapes or doing the harvesting in vineyard close up as sun shines

Vendemmia, Italian Wine Making Tradition

Vendemmia is an Italian tradition, old and still in vogue to this day, so much so that it has its own word for it. Vendemmia is the day on which we harvest the grapes and prepare them for the fermentation process. The word itself derives from the Latin words vinum(wine) and demia(to harvest). Vendemmia takes

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