Patio Pounders

Easy-drinking summer wines.

This fizzy wine has a bad rep, but suddenly everybody’s talking about it.

forward to some frizzante wine parings. The menu at the place I am going to is: Sage Tagliatelle with Roasted Pumpkin & Brown Butter 2005 Medici Ermete “Daphne” Malvasia DOC secco Pancetta Wrapped Scallops with Celery...

If it were local while in Roma, it wasn’t Lambrusco—that’s from Emilia Romagna. Ergo, it wasn’t Brachetto, which is from Piedmonte. Roma is in the center of Lazio. The local DOC wines that are made in...

But why, Michelle ?secco</b>, dolce, passito ?"/> And what about the great and not yet well known wines from Colli Piacentini as Gutturnio

, it was a friendly place with guys having a drinking contest and big seafood plattters, all the way out in the Santa Elena district (in Castello – out past where we were staying at the Arsenale – address is Secco...

carne secco. You have to look around though. Some versions are ok. Some are exquisite.

a word doc.) Thanks! Venice Eats Murano Trattoria Busa Alle Torre Da Lele, Campo San Stefano 3, +39 041 739 662, closed M/evenings Twice I’ve been to Trattoria Busa Alla Torre Da Lele, Campo San Stefano 3, Murano. Twice I’ve...

to see Italians at their expansive best. We had been wandering in that end of Castello – started to go to Dai Tosi (a nearby good place, tried on our last trip) on Secco Marina, but unfortunately I stepped in dog doo right...