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The Chiorri Winemakers Company is a vineyard under family management, which with special care from their very own vines, produces D.O.C. Colli Perugini and IGT dell'Umbria white, red and rosè wines. The family, together with the help of experienced workers,...
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The first traces of Bisol family in the heart of the Prosecco D.O.C area date to the 16th century and are contained in a census carried out for fiscal reasons by the aristocratic Venetian family Da Pola, who were landowners of the leading the very prestigious...
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Country House Palazzone was built in medieval times and is located not far from Rocca Ripesena in the area northwest of Orvieto, in Umbria. This building is an exceptional example of a country residence: it possesses all the characteristics of a town...
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Hundred and ten years of vinegrowing starter at the end of 1800 when Francesco Marcato bought the first 3 hectares of vineyards in Roncà. Afetr few years he started to produce also the white wine Soave with the Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave grapes....
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The CASTELLO di BOSSI is located in the commune of Castelnuovo Berardenga, on the road that leaves the old Chiantigiana road, at Pianella, and ascends to Brolio amidst evergreen forests and long rows of vines. With its centuries-old trees, its fossil...
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Almond pastry, "le granite"
Almond, widely and successufully cultivated in Avola, from the second half of the XIX century thanks to Giuseppe Bianca, and lemon features the territory. In February the trees in full bloom are a really unmissable event. The most cultivated variety is the "pizzuta" since its fruit, the Avola Scelta is an excellent one and moreover, it is appreciated for its incomparable organoleptic features all over the world. Various and very delicious are the products of local confection. Really good and genuine are almost all almond based. The almond "ice" is a very refreshing drink. Little sins of gluttony are nougats, the white one is typical and delicious, little treasures of taste are almond cookies, eye-catching is frutta martorana, jewel of Sicilian pastry made with marzipan, and incomparable are the famous sugared almonds.
(source: Avola, la città esagonale)