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The Commercial Farm and Country Inn Buccia Nera is a family run Tuscan estate with a long tradition, but a young an innovative spirit, thanks to sisters, Alessia and Anastasia, who represent the family's younger generation, and took over the management in 2004.
The Tenuta di Campriano (Campriano Farm) was bought in the early 1900s, and since then vine and olive cultivation, as well as the production of wine and extra virgin olive oil, have been the at the center of the family's commercial business.
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This month we present one cheese produced in the Alps of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Montasio DOP,
and a Piedmontese robiola produced with mixed cow and sheep milk, Murazzano DOP.
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Beans
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Easy-to-prepare at home recipes using seasonal products and what's in the fridge and what's on hand at the time. Among the latest:
Brigit's Cracked Crab
Scrambled Eggs with Spicy Garbanzos
Drunken Plums
Summer Rainbow Fusilli Pasta
Recipe Index
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 The prestigious event is organized by Toscana Promozione (Tuscan Promotion) in collaborazione with the Enoteca Italiana di Siena (Siena's Italian Wine Bar), the Associazione Enologi Enotecnici Italiani (Italian Association of Enologists and Enotechnicians), the provincial administartions, the consortiums fro the protection of the various denominations, the chambers o commerce, and the ICE Istituto per il Commercio Estero, or Itlian Institute for In ternational Commerce).
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 Thursday, August 26, 2010, Slow Food Calabria met in Vibo Marina, in the province of Vibo Valentia, on the southern tip of the Italian boot, in the presence of the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity president, Piero Sardo, to discuss the modification to the production rules for the Cirò DOC wine, among other matters.
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 The event will start with a tasting seminar dedicated to trade professionals and journalists, and will end with recipes of the Neapolitan cuisine paired with sparkling wines form the TrentoDOC association. All 31 producers associated will be present and will pour their best wines.
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VinNatur Taranto
Staff Writer -- Published - August 25, 2010 |
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 VinNatur Taranto, which will take place on the 20th and 21st of November 2010, represents a first step toward making wine lovers and consumers aware of natural wines. The protagonists of the event will be the 45 producers associated with VinNatur, 35 of whom are Italians, five Slovenians and five French, who have subscribed to the initiative.
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 A map of the Franciacorta production area made in 1429, which reports the exact area of the 240 square kilometers (92.66 square miles) and includes the 21towns of Adro, Brescia, Brione, Capriolo, Cazzago San Martino, Cellatica, Coccaglio, Cologne, Corte Franca, Erbusco, Gussago, Iseo, Monticelli Brusati, Ome, Paderno di Franciacorta, Paratico, Passirano, Polaveno, Provaglio d'Iseo, Rodengo-Saiano and Rovato.
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From Europe
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 Each year, the Italian Swiss event offers the opportunity to taste artisanal food items from around the world, prepared according to ancient traditions. This year the fair will take place just a short walk from downtown, at the Centro Esposizioni di Lugano, from the 10th to the 12th of December 2010.
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 AUGUST 25 UPDATE:
We have just received news that the Georgia World Wine Festival Fair 2010 has been postponed to a later date to be announced, because the original dates chosen for the event, from the 16th to the 20th of September, conflict with grape harvesting across Europe.
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 Registrations to the Professional Fair Blue Wine Expo 2011, which will take place in Marseille, France, on February 7 and 8, 2011, ore open,
The Professional Fair Blue Wine Expo has enjoyed a growing success, with more than 500 visitors from various parts of the world in 2009, next year the Expo will launch its third annual trade show featuring over 120 independent winemakers.
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 On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, divers in the Baltic Sea found what is believed to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world in a shipwreck whose nationality has not yet been determined, sunk near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland. The divers were so excited that they tasted the sole bottle they had brought up so far before they even returned to shore.
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Wineries from Italy are invited to participate in 
Recently, close to 600 Chinese wine workers from global beverage giant Pernod Ricard, were in South Australia's Barossa Valley, one of the continent's best-known vineyard and wine production areas, to learn about a range of wines tailor-made for the Chinese market.
