It's All Over

29 June


It’s All Over

Well the flight back happened. Not the way we planned, but it did happen. We got our luggage today. Funny, I thought it was supposed to get to our destination the same time we did…

It was a great trip overall. Great company, wonderful food, excellent wines and a whole lot of high speed driving. What are our take-aways?

1. Gelatto is better than ice cream (and makes a great breakfast food).
2. Pork and cheese are the #1 and #2 food groups. Pasta is as foundational as air.
3. Piemonte is a wonderful place (few tacky tourists). Go there to stay; tour the rest.
4. A big meal covers for no one being able to speak a common language.
5. After 1128 miles in two weeks I’d rather drive in Italy than California (JB).
6. Italian food is good.
7. Italian wine is good (and makes a great breakfast food).
8. Family is good.
9. Small wineries in Italy are a lot like small wineries in California.
10. We would all go to visit again.

Recommendations (in no particular order):

• Pietro Rinaldi (Piemonte near Alba)
• Crociani (Montepulciano)
• Arnaldo Caprai (Montefalco)
• La Villa Favorita (Alba)
• The gelateria on Via dei Serpenti just down from the Maharajah restaurant in Rome
• Target restaurant (Rome)
• Ristorante Nelle Vigne (somewhere near Alba)
• Ra Del Ca (Verduno in Piemonte)
• La Taverna (Perugia)

And that’s about it. Our next blog will be for harvest and will start in late August (who knows, I may do a twitter feed. Just what you need: a text message that says “Holy @#?! 14 tons of nebbiolo? Now what?!?!” but who knows, it could be interesting.

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Ciao!

Jill, John, Sheila and David