Italians Have Been Getting Blitzed on Wine for a Very Long Time
When we think about wine in Italian history, we think of the booze-soaked bacchanalias of ancient Rome. But it turns out that Italians were using wine to get their drunk on long before that, as evidenced by an exciting new discovery of the region’s oldest vino near a Copper Age site in Sicily. It’s a spicy meatball indeed. Read more from Gizmodo.com
A Look Inside Dario Sattui’s Massive ’13th-Century Italian Castle’
Where He Produces Wine in the Middle of California Wine Country
Nestled in the rolling hills of Calistoga, Calif., Castello di Amorosa is a world-class winery based in a replica of a 13th-century Tuscan castle. The owner, Dario Sattui, is a fourth-generation winemaker and ardent Italophile who spent $40 million to bring a slice of the old country to Napa Valley. At 142,000 square feet, the castle took more than a decade to build.