December’s ‘Food and Wine Interview’ is with Enrico Rivetto of the Rivetto Winery in Sinio, Piedmont. For over 100 years the Rivetto family has been making wine in the Piedmont region in northwestern Italy. Today this medium size estate occupies some 35 hectacres, 20 of which are vineyards, and faces the spectacular Serralunga d’Alba castle and the charming picturesque village of …
Read more »A wine critic paid 105,000 euros for a 900 gram white truffle at the annual truffle auction in Alba, Piedmont last Sunday. The auction was held as usual at the medieval Castello di Grinzane. The buyer, Jeannie Cho Lee, a South Korean wine critic living in Hong Kong, made her bid via a satellite link-up, …
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