sushi night

I stayed at Julia's last night and we ordered sushi. I of course brought the wine, one of my favorites, Ettore Germano. 

#tbt

#tbt to summer in Italy

Picking hazelnuts in Piemonte

working the fork lift

Working hard, or playing hard?

Not easy to tell when driving a forklift. 

I also got a really cool souvenir for helping out. I'll show you tomorrow!

blindtasting

heaven on earth

This is my favorite garden, maybe apart from my own at home. But my garden at home does not have a beautiful olive tree or the most wonderful people, Elena and Bruno Viberti.

The garden is part of a small hotel in La Morra, Corte Gondina. It is run by the Viberti family, and can most sincerely be recommended to anyone. Not only does it have a pool, wonderful food, idyllic rooms and wonderful service, it also has the most peaceful garden. 

Sitting here with my coffe and Jo Nesbø, life is perfect. 

Worth a visit. Maybe I'll see you there. 

vin cafe

After some shopping in Alba, I sat down at this wonderful cafe in the middle of the shopping street. Vin Cafe offers drinks and snacks, a great place to relax and people watch.

Good day so far.

is there another way to drink wine?

First dinner at Vietti, eating food from the garden and drinking wine from the cellar

The wine, as you can see, is label less and was bottles 3 weeks ago. 

What a start to my new adventure. 

new job title

Today I begin a new adventure in Italy. I will be working in a vineyard, as a farmer, with Vietti. I am not sure what the job entails, but I am sure it will be amazing! I will try to keep you posted, but the internet is not exactly great in wine country. 

Rejoice!

it was a good day

good night

Fabulous dinner at More e Macine in La Morra. Wonderful evening!

alessandro veglio

Wonderful wine visit. Wordlclass. 

good morning

Good morning Piemonte!

Let the wine tasting begin!

piemonte

Starting our stay in Piemonte with a bang!

Cavalotto and Vietti, two of my favorites. 

#tbt

La Morra, Piemonte 2012

See you soon Altare!

wine in tremezzo

I am drinking so much good wine these days. I feel so spoiled. I prefer white, most of the time, but I also like red. The problem now is that I am so spoiled. I have been drinking so much high quality wine, that I am spoiled.

Vietti, Altare, Cavalotto, Mascarello.

Then som white burgundy, then red burgundy. 

Life is good.

Rejoice!

friday pizza

It has been a long standing tradition in our family to have pizza on fridays. Well, since I am going away this weekend, I made friday pizza today, thursday. And as always, the pizza is accompanied by "pizza wine", and these days my favorite is Nadia Curto's Barbera d'Alba. Excellent, as always.