Month October 2023
Foligno on the fly
Last Saturday we visited “Umbria in un Bicchiere”, the yearly Umbrian slowwine gathering.. After 6 hours of wine tasting we needed food. Nixy obviously came up with a place that offered una “Fiorentina”. It was 7 pm and our train…
Friday, October 27, 6 pm: We taste 6 rose\’
It\’s getting winter and we have still some Rosati in the cellar. We counted 6 types and decided to make a comparative tasting. The tasting is open, No registration needed. Just call 3665010443. Contribution:15 Euros. We will taste Terre San…
Osteria a Priori
..run by Eat Umbria SRL We visited on October 17, 2023. If you don’t want to go there for the food, go for the wine, I think they can challenge most orher Restaurants in Perugia for the quantity of Umbrian…
Il Giardino
The name is a program. And this charming place is just 5 steps from our flat in Perugia. It is a Restaurant garden with stunnig views on the walls of part of the city center. What we did not realize…
Italian wines should make themselves easier for customers
At one of our tastings, a guest, who was born and grew up in Rome and now lives in Brussels, told me that she prefers French wines to Italian wines. To be specific, she prefers haut medoc. I was very…
Verticale “lunato” 2018-2022
italian whites can age. We tried and proved this many times, and we try this again today. we have a vertical tasting of an orvieto classical, 2018-2022 vintages from le Velette, which is made of 60% of grechetto and other…
Se Serena aumentasse i prezzi un pò?
“Il Conte” è anche Buonrespiro e probabilmente ci sarei molto più spesso, se non ci fosse sempre la folla. Si mangia bene da Serena e si paga poco. Il Conte non appartiene alla categoria “fine dining”, Ciònonostante ho mangiato dal…
Il Frantoio
We wanted to make a trip out of Buonrespiro. An incentive to have dinner outside was a block of the draining pipes to be repaired only the next day. So we decided to go to Lubriano a charming village just…
A drinking trip in the core of umbria wine
usly there are many good wines from other parts of the Umbria too. Some really brilliant sangiovese and elegant but resistant orvieto classico for example. But they are made of grapes also growing in other regions. while montefalco makes important…
29th October: Cannonau and Gamay del Trasimeno
Tasting: October 29, 5 pm, Buonrespirio 37 |Online Registration| Phone: 3665010443| 38 Euro Grenache (Garnacha) is an important grape in Southern France and Spain. In Italy, there are some expressions of Grenache, especially Cannonau in Sardegna. Also in Umbria this…