Collecapretta, great small wine producer in Umbria
Just back from the Viniveri and Vinnatur. Two events that can be marked as the 'wilder cousins' of Vinitaly. You'll undoubtedly see, in the near future, some short posts on some wines we picked up there. But first up is a recent visit to a small natural winemaker in...
Difficult choice.
According to noi, the worlds two best beverages are water and wine. In our cozy little hilltop cottage we have a 'waterhole' setup that sometimes poses a problem of choice... On the left it is our ceramic water filter that cleans the rainwater of any impurities. A...
The Pro way
As mentioned before it is the time of the year to go hunting for the slender wild asparagus stalks. Well, I say hunting it is more searching with a very big S. You see one of the great talents of the wild asparagus is to hide itself from view. You know the shoots have...
Homemade Pranzo
Just as we started driving full throttle up the hill we was halted by one of our neighbours. They are always interested in what we are up to and they must have spotted the big branches filling the car. "Hazelnut and fig trees someone donated us", we explained. Great,...
How to hunt for asparagus the Umbrian way.
Well I guess hunting for these elusive sprouts is the same all the world over but this is a piccolo filmato using Umbria as a background. If you have decided this will be your new hobby for the coming time stick to it. As they say in Germany Es ist noch kein Meister...
spring flowers
True colours.
Just peeping outside to get something from my cantina I saw this and I swear in real it looked even more bizar. Difficult to capture those things on camera.
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