Choosing a wine at the restaurant is not so easy as it could seem, but there’re few tricks to safely escape the situation. In the last 12 months the entire world accumulated an insane quantity of postponed dinners to date to be set. Dinners with friends, relatives, business dinner or with future lovers. Sooner or […]
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This is probably the more frequent question people are gonna ask you as soon they will get to know about your knowledge on wine, regardless you are a wanna-be sommelier at his very first lesson, a worldwide famous expert or a very experienced wine drinker. Personally, when I’m asked this question, I have a double
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The biggest fear for students approaching the final exam to become sommelier is not being able to remind the hundreds of existing denominations (italian DOCG and DOC, plus those from other Countries). In Italy only there are more than 70 DOCGs and over 300 DOCs. The neo-somm have to – must – know each of
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Let’s admit it, looking at an expert tasting a wine in front of an audience is fascinating. The ease of observing, of sniffing, of tasting the wine and talking to the public about the characteristics, about the flavours and the tastes, make the audience hanging on his lips. The tale of the flavors is, even
Winemaking in Liguria region is an exercise of willingness and tenacity, that really tests both physical and mental resistance of those who work that land in such a difficult conditions. Once all energies are gone for the vineyard management, only the most resilient and passionate are able to concentrate to produce high quality wines. Passion
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And now, let’s study! As everyone will tell you, get the certificate and wearing the tastevin are just the starting point to really become a Somm. Yes, because the 3 levels (either by Ais or Fisar – rigorously in alphabetical order) that lead to the final exam will be, till that moment, a pile of
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Fashion, trend, discover, re-discover, innovation, renewal of traditions. Call it as you like, but what sure is that Orange Wines became today an integrated part of the wine world and find their epicenter in Italy. For less wine-experimenting people, orange wines are basically (and for the more experts, please forgive me the extreme simplification) white
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There’s a game that I like to play with the sommelier course students, but also at events where self-proclaimed wine connoisseurs. It cannot be avoided to note that the majority of these persons – luckily not everyone! – already at the beginning of their study/knowing start to ignore the cheapest wine, in Italy the Tavernello
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