The holiday edition! A visit to a royal ‘hunting lodge’ and a Vintner returns to Piedmont…

Week 13 of wine adventures in Piedmont August 15th marks ‘Ferragosto’, from the Latin ‘Feriae Augusti’ as the holiday was conceived by Emperor Augustus during the heady days of the Roman Empire in honour of the Gods, particularly those responsible for fertility and ripening, of course. So Italy empties to the coast while the luckless […]