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  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Tom Mullen

    2 hours agoAn elegant weapon, from a more civilized age. Some people can tell great wine from okay wine. They go on wine tastings, take wine tours. They tend to spend more money on wine than most. I am not one of those people. I can tell wine from vinegar if you show me the bottle. I am just a little bit …

  • 1 week ago | forbes.com | Tom Mullen

    After recently visiting multiple producers and tasting 130 wines from the Bourgogne region in France, I selected the following 14 bottles from five of its wine producing sub-regions based on their overall quality and value. This renowned French wine region is now pressing to be called Bourgogne rather than its English translation of Burgundy (or Italian translation of Borgogna).

  • 3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Tom Mullen

    How to Spend THREE Days in Verona, Italy: The Best 3-Day ItineraryPlanning a trip to Verona? We’ve got you covered! Verona might be best known as the setting of Romeo and Juliet, but there’s so much more to discover …

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tom Mullen

    The Italian Island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea includes Sant’Antioco, a southern sub-island attached via a constructed isthmus. This isle is 42 square miles (109 square kilometers) in area, about twice the size of New York’s Manhattan Island or the same size as the city of Florence. The population is about 11,000—half of one percent of that of Manhattan and 3% of that in Florence.

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Tom Mullen

    NorthwestThree years ago I vacationed in Italy on the island of Sardinia for a week, tasted wines and wrote articles about the north and central/southern regions. I recently returned to focus on signature regional wines. The quality endures, and wines made from lesser known indigenous Sardinian grapes can be excellent. During that first trip, I phoned a winery in the north at random and within hours sat with Mario Bagella tasting a lineup of his vintages.