Food and wine pairing is nowadays a controversial topic but of great importance in the restaurant world. Lately, the best starred restaurants in the world have chosen to offer, in combination with their tasting menus, a very precise selection of wines by the glass chosen by their Sommeliers. A different glass for each dish in…
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La scena gastronomica mondiale sta attraversando un delicato periodo storico che ad oggi vede ancora aperta la polemica sul come e cosa scegliere di voler versare nel proprio bicchiere. Tra gli esperti del settore enologico è in corso una vera e propria guerra tra due fazioni. Da un lato i “conservatori tecnologi del vino” fautori…
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Barolo is often introduced through a saying: Barolo the wine of the King and the King of wines, which in my opinion helps more to trivialize than to give importance to this wine and its territory. But what is Barolo really? Wine known all over the world but do we really know what it is…
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How do you proceed when you order wine? Do you order taking a look at the wine list or you ask for a suggestion? Basically, in each restaurant the wine list should help us make our choice, unfortunately very often it is not present and in many cases we find it not completely exhaustive. So how…
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This is the phrase we commonly hear when someone wants to drink bubbles.But, are all wines with bubbles called Prosecco? Some of you will say with certainty “absolutely not!” Actually many people don’t know the difference. Here is a brief overview to clarify the ideas on sparkling wines… As people commonly use the word Prosecco…
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Today, Malta boasts a large number of restaurants, but how many of these truly satisfy the needs of wine enthusiasts and professionals? How many could contribute to obtaining an international recognition such as the Michelin star? As a distributor, the justifications that most of the times I have to deal with are: “In my restaurant I…
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The world gastronomic scene is currently going through a period of change that is debating how to choose and what to pour into one’s glass. A real war between two factions has broken out among wine industry experts. On one hand, the “wine technologists conservators” advocate industrial wine, on the other the “avant-garde of degrowth”…
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