Fedoras afield

[RJR]

Wow!

 

[hatsRme]

Daniele you are a wonderful tour guide! Always the best photos, scenery, and your descriptions are splendid. Thank you again!!

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Really nice. Thank you for sharing!

 

[mikespens]

Living large Daniele! Wine tasting is a bit more casual here in the new world.

 

[alanfgag]

... as is the wine. All sorts of great photos to catch up on here - thanks for sharing your journeys!

 

[1mach1]

Wow, Daniele! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Thank you all for your compliment and your kind words.
I try to do my best to show you the world of an Italian "tourist " in his land

Tommy, Allegrini, as other producers in the Valpolicella is well represented in the US. You can easily find the products, I believe in a high price range. The main difference with the wines of Tuscany is given by the type of grape used. Valpolicella is a compound of three native grapes: Corvina Veronese, Rondinella and Molinara with prevalence of the first that can also be a part of Corvinone . In Tuscany, the grape most widely used for Chianti , Brunello and Supertuscany is Sangiovese.
Currently there is a renaissance in Italian winemaking in the use of indigenous grapes. They are many and there was and still is present a replanting them to get top quality wines.
Mike, the major producers, given their international status, have representative offices very interesting and in historical mansion. In Valpolicella there are excellent Venetian Villas which in some cases have become the symbol of some manufacturers with prominence in the international market, especially the US and China. The medium and small producers are still very free-range and their cellars simple and approachable and as you know is not the house or the beautiful building to make good wine. It is inside the glass and then on your tongue.
However Allegrini is a great producer.

 

[Tedquinton]

I love this thread!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[mayserwegener]

Daniele, Fantastic photos of Villa della Torre! Very dramatic! Also great insight on the wine.

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Second episode of the visit of the Valpolicella and its historical producers of wines.

Villa Mosconi-Bertani is the home to one of the oldest wineries of Valpolicella.
The first part was built in the sixteenth century and can be seen even now some of the underground halls.

The Villa Mosconi was built near the renaissance winery since the early years of the eighteenth century and completed in the first half of that century.

It belonged to the family Mosconi who made a country house and literary salon in the early nineteenth century. It was the home for two of the most important Italian poets (Ippolito Pindemonte and Ugo Foscolo) of the time who have enjoyed the hospitality of the mistress, the Countess Elizabetta Mosconi and the good drink.

It is now the headquarters of the winery Gilberto Bertani, belonging to a family of historical winemakers in Verona. The visit was pleasant with a tour group of American winelovers.

The wines tasted were as follows: the white Soave, a blend of Merlot-Syrah called Pragal and Ripasso della Valpolicella vinified from the estate Santa Maria della Pieve.

They are present in the complex of the huge wine cellars with the equipment largely nineteenth century that enhance the charm of this historic winery.

As most of the Venetian Villas of those days there is a huge park

Here there is a tiny lake surrounded with "exotics" wood.

Ippolito Pindemonte was the creator of this Romantic Garden embellished with a small house, dedicated to the cafe, on the banks of the lake.

The visit continued in the following days to other manufacturers with less prestigious locations, but with wines of special quality to the great satisfaction of my curious and competent Australian lovers of Italian wine. Then the weather has failed and the last three days were windy, cold and rain.

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Daniele, looks like a really quiet place to be.

 

[mayserwegener]

Fantastic!

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Yesterday when to Praia Grande (Big Beach) to see the sunset.

And went to diner near Praia das Maças (Apple beach)

 

[triple-d]

Nice pics......hard to beat the sunrise or sunset over the ocean.........thanks for sharing.

 

[RJR]

Thanks for the "tour",Joao.

 

[Frunobulax]

Beautiful, Joao. There's something about the ocean.

 

[mikespens]

Thanks Daniele and Joao for expanding my little world's view.

 

[Daniele Tanto]

Joao, the ocean is wonderful.
I remember many years ago a long trip to Portugal.
I have to come back......

 

[Joao Encarnado]

It really is something.

 

[dh66]

Daniele & Joao - Thanks for sharing your visits by those magnificent photos!!