A chance encounter at a wine tasting means new beginnings for this remote Italian cascinaLittle did Summer Wolff know that a tip-off 13 years ago would change her life for ever. The American wine importer – and already long-term Italophile – was running gourmet tours of Tuscany with her business partner when they heard about an “impressive young winemaker” who was breathing new life into indigenous varieties and natural production in Monferrato, east of Turin.Wasting no time in beating it up there, they arrived through the forest in the throes of the mid-autumn mist at dusk. “There was this romantic, other-worldliness about it that was so different to the Italy I knew,” Wolff recalls. “I was immediately enchanted.” Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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