Paul Inksetter
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© Paul Inksetter 2016
Just the next mountain over from renowned Montalcino, source of the incomparable Brunello di Montalcino (see Bayview Fall 2021), lies another central Italian mountain town with an ambiguous name an
Jutting southward into the Mediterranean Sea, the Italian peninsula is shaped like a boot – lo Stivale in Italian.
The River Rhine marks the eastern boundary of France with Germany, but it wasn’t always so.
Italy’s northeastern Veneto region is a bottomless well of wine, and as such, quality struggles to find itself in that overwhelming quantity.
Italy is the world’s largest wine producer, and the Northeastern region of Veneto is its most productive agricultural zone and largest wine producer, vinifying some 20% of all Italian wine.
As we northerners struggle through our long, cold winter, that paradise on our west coast looms large in our consciousness.
Above Niagara Falls and its escarpment, the great high plane of southwestern Ontario stretches westerly to Lake Huron and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers.
The Niagara Peninsula lies where the western end of Lake Ontario overlaps the eastern end of Lake Erie.
Wine has been known since the dawn of civilization. The first thing Noah did after the flood was plant a vineyard and get drunk (Genesis IX: 20, 21).
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