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That's me and my *tall * 12 year old son crossing

That's me and my *tall * 12 year old son crossing our arms, calmly gesturing our preference for loop hikes.

We've hiked and chowed at many a rifugio in the alps so far this week, but Bonner Hütte so far is my fav for food, view, rustic essential architecture - and of course for the loop hike there and back.

#dolomiti #portovinoitaliano #rifugio #hiking #italia #moderation

Lago di Braies is the jewel of the Alpine lakes in

Lago di Braies is the jewel of the Alpine lakes in Alto Adige. That makes it pretty popular too. We had it almost all to ourselves this year.

The tireless cut of the radiant-wind here envigorates.

#altoadige #dolomiti #italia #portovinoitaliano

Italy without tourists this year is pretty amazing

Italy without tourists this year is pretty amazing. I wish all of you were here. I am in the Dolimites, the part of the Alps above Veneto, in Alto Adige. I think the flower might be what is used for Arnica, a natural medicine for sore muscles and joints. #vacanza #italia #portovinoitaliano #dolomiti

Mortellito 'Calaniuru' Rosso Sicilia 2019 [Frappat

Mortellito 'Calaniuru' Rosso Sicilia 2019 [Frappato blend] 2019 13.0% 19/06/2020
I tasted this 6 months ago out of tank and today, and it keeps getting more precise in the nose and complex in the mouth. That said, 2019 was a cold and late harvest year, with lots of problems of drought (Dario picked his old vine Nero d'Avola early as it suffered quite a bit from the drought). The cool and long season gives these wines a delicate character, with the fruit as a distant background to the minerality and salt sketchings. Pale cranberry color, aspirin and chalk, icy fruit in background, high toned-iodine (think toasted nori or clean smelling red-fleshed anchovies under salt).The length and structure here is less prominent than other years but it's by no means short, and the developing complexity more than makes up for it. ... Mortellito 'Calaiancu' Bianco Sicilia 2019 [Grillo blend] 2019 12.0% 19/06/2020
The Grillo is all exotic this year, letting its Thiols hang in the hip-wind of a belly dancer's belt. Passion fruit and lime oil, and that unmistaken fine salinity that comes from these beach vines on limestone soils. Excellent length. It'll be interesting to see in a few months when this inevitably oxidizes a touch, as natural Grillo does. ... Mortellito 'Viarìa' Moscato Bianco Terre Siciliane 2019 [Moscato] 2019 12.5%
Aromatic wine, lychee and white lemon pith in the nose, a bit Gewürzy but not overbearing. Whoah! in the mouth, a veritable Fun Slide of citrus textured salty juiciness. Grilled and lightly salted grapefruit, and a distinct (slimy in a good way) umami earthness that you get when eating Engawa Halibut sushi or the prized Sicilian Gambero Rosso di Mazara fished off the coast where these vineyards are. I am not a pairing fetishist, but Gambero Rosso and Mortellito Moscato = Happy Happy Happy.
@dario_mortellito #sicilia #vininaturali #portovino #portovinoitaliano #nowomanisanisland🌴 #winestagram #realwine #winegeek #vinnaturel #letmeexplainyou

Today's Festa della Repubblica in Italy, a celebra

Today's Festa della Repubblica in Italy, a celebration of modern Italy's formation in 1946. Italians and Italophiles tend to fall hard for ancient Italy (as they should), but there's much to be proud of in modern Italy, including how Italians recently followed the rules of lockdown for the greater good of everyone.
Now, if modern Italians start playing more tennis rather than drooling with zealot-like-fever to soccer/football on the TV, we'd be a progressive country indeed.
#italia #festadellareppublica #tuttoandràbene #letmeexplainyou #portovino #portovinoitaliano #tennis #noalcalciomoderno

Italy's highest grand cru vineyard in alpine Valle

Italy's highest grand cru vineyard in alpine Valle d'Aosta: Clos du Curé. Piero Brunet is the plumber turned hero. Silence between the rocks.
#italia #portovino #portovinoitaliano #valledaosta #prieblanc #naturalwine #realwine #winegeek #vinnaturel

The days are longer now in toscana, and the sunlig

The days are longer now in toscana, and the sunlight abundant. It's what's needed for the flowering of the olive trees, and me too this year.

Tuscan accent in full force! Qwesta hosa!

#italia #portovinoitaliano #tuttoandràbene🌈 #olivo #letmeexplainyou

It looks like a large olive crop this year. The hi

It looks like a large olive crop this year. The hills are filled with white flower confetti. Achooo!
#italia #toscana #portovinoitaliano #evoo #liquidgold #mediterraneandiet

My first caffè kiss after three months. I still

My first caffè kiss after three months. I still am taken away after all these years: the espresso machine's hot whisper, the clink of the metal spoon on the ceramic saucer, the metaphysical powers of Italians who drink it in a sec - yet with such disarming languish. #portovinoitaliano #italia #letmeexplainyou

Fennel has always been a bridge veggie from Winter

Fennel has always been a bridge veggie from Winter to Spring for me, and I could use a bridge. Chopped fennel + shopped oranges + minced capers and whites onion+ whisked lemon EVOO vinagrette. Not the easiest dish to match wine but I have a bevaege that's killer match here.

Doors poorly shut that won't open themselves, and

Doors poorly shut that won't open themselves, and the overgrown grass not really caring that much at all. #janus #nature

Some turf wars never end.

Some turf wars never end.

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