Maurizio Gabriele – Page 10

A steak? No, an oyster.

I couldn’t help stopping in front of this stand. Oysters of enormous size so big they require two bites to eat. (more…)

Wine Quiz: tasting starts with the nose :)

I see some little cups, and my curiosity shoots through the roof. The wining‑giovani.it project begins with a sort of olfactory re‑education… seeing something similar at the Calabria stand encourages me to catch up with Rachele and Valentina from Social Garden Calabria to stick my nose 😊 into their activity. (more…)

La Geria: a “lunar” vineyard between wind and volcanoes.

Of my Canarian stories, I saved the one about La Geria for last. And to think I expected it to be the most touristy of all, partly because it’s highlighted in every guidebook, and partly because the roads are filled with every type of tourist vehicle, from cars to quads. (more…)

Chinggis Khan, the Vodka from Mongolia

It’s easy to say “Vodka,” but when the “Vodka” in your glass is a spirit that deserves a deeper story, things change. A product from Mongolia, made from undeniably less contaminated grain compared to those from other places. (more…)

Bodegas Reverón: Tenerife’s wine at 1,300 meters of altitude…

Yes — 1,300 meters, in the highest municipality in Spain, Vilaflor, on the island of Tenerife. That’s where I met Javier Linares, after putting the rental Aygo through some real suffering on the steep climbs and hairpin turns along the road leading to Teide, the volcano that dominates the island. (more…)

Bodegas Monje: when wine is expressed in every possible way…

We arrive from Lanzarote, and Bodegas Monje is just a stone’s throw from Tenerife North Airport. We come from full summer and, with a single 40‑minute flight, suddenly find ourselves in the middle of winter. But by now we’re used to it: when there’s a volcano in the middle, the north is winter and the south — barely 30 kilometers away — is summer. (more…)

“Trattoria Da Burde: 123 years old and not showing it…”

It’s an October Thursday — a rainy, heavily congested day, on a street that is anything but convenient, outside Florence. And yet Paolo and Andrea Gori’s restaurant is full. Full of Florentines leaning against a table by the cheese counter, full in the main dining room and in the smaller rooms branching off the space, full even of Americans asking to “store” a couple of cubic meters of luggage just to secure a table at Da Burde. (more…)

With Helmuth Köcher awaiting the 2024 Merano Wine Festival

For 33 years, the Merano Wine Festival has been marked in the calendars of all of us wine lovers as an unmissable event. And for 33 years, the inexhaustible spirit of Helmuth Köcher has succeeded in making this event increasingly solid and capable of engaging visitors with a program that ranges from biodynamics to Champagne — and much more… (more…)