Kategorie: Wine & Fine Dining
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Florence does not produce wine. It does something more interesting — it collects the finest bottles from the hills, valleys, and coastline that surround it, and offers them to anyone who knows where to look. No city in the world gives you better access to serious Tuscan wine than Florence. This is your guide to…
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Italy is the most complex wine country on earth. It has 20 administrative regions, 341 DOC designations and 79 DOCG wines as of 2026 — the highest quality tier — and over 500 indigenous grape varieties found nowhere else in the world. Understanding Italian wine means understanding Italian geography: the soils, the altitudes, the microclimates,…
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Lake Como from the water is one thing. Lake Como from above is another entirely. The mountains, the villas, the villages arranged along the shoreline, the deep blue-green of the lake itself — from a rooftop, it all comes together in a way that no ferry ride or lakeside terrace can replicate. The best rooftop…
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Lake Como has a reputation problem when it comes to food. Travelers arrive expecting mediocre tourist menus and overpriced pasta with a view — and in the most crowded spots on the most crowded days, that is exactly what they find. But it is not the whole picture. The best restaurants on Lake Como are…
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Lake Como is not a destination you typically associate with wine. You come for the villas, the water, the mountains. And then, on a warm afternoon on a vineyard terrace above Domaso or in a quiet enoteca in Bellagio, you taste something that stops you mid-sentence — and you realise that wine tasting on Lake…
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Most visitors to Lake Como come for the villas, the hotels, and the views. The serious traveler comes also for the wine. Lake Como wine is one of Italy’s best-kept secrets — a small, high-quality production from terraced hillside vineyards that has been quietly improving for decades and is only now beginning to attract the…