A fun outing today!
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A fun outing today!
| Sun, 05-30-2010 - 12:44am |
We live in central Italy and are going to an event called "Cantine Aperte." Basically it means that many of the winemaking companies in the region have an open house for the day (actually the whole weekend)... people can come to taste the wine and have a look at the vineyard and possibly buy something. You just get in your car, look at the map and choose which wineries you want to visit, then go. We did this last year too and liked it a lot. Today looks like it will be a gorgeous sunny day, perfect weather for it. And I will allow myself to have some very small tastes of the wines (not too much of course). I am on the cusp of 13 weeks and nausea is starting to wane. Hooray!!
Molly
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Hi Molly!
The wine tasting sounds like it was a fun activity...and to do so in Italy! What a dream!!!
My brother and his wife and kids live in wine country in Missouri here in the United States.
My sister-in-law is an asst. manager at one of the wineries and so needless to say we always have the best wines at celebrations/meals. Their property backs up to one of the vineyards so when you look out her back windows all you see are the grapes growing...breathtaking. Not to mention they live up in the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River.
Let us know how the event went! I've been craving a glass of Merlot, but a German Riesling is always good too!!!
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Wow -- I had no idea there was any wine country in Missouri. First of all I have never visited that part of the USA, but also, in my book about wines of the world, the only American wines mentioned come from CA, Washington state, Oregon, or New York state. Anyway, your place really sounds beautiful!
I am allowing myself to have a really small quantity of wine each night at dinner. I mean something like one
Update -- the visits to the wineries was very pleasant! We only went to 2 places, and didn't stay for hours and hours (the children were getting bored), but both places had good wines and we met up with some friends that we hadn't seen for a while, too. (I drank a little wine but not much.) The highlight was the drive itself out to these places. Scenery/countryside is JUST gorgeous, at its peak of beauty in late May. This region (not Calabria) is full of rolling hills, so everywhere you go, there's plenty of beauty to behold. It has taken me 15 years to kind of feel "at home" here -- I was born and raised in New England and will never stop feeling like that's my real home -- but, I gotta say, it's truly beautiful in this region. (My camera is broken so I don't have pictures, sorry...)
Joan, I hope in the next few years you will get a chance to take a trip to Italy