Looking for a great wine (or wines) for your Thanksgiving gathering? The Wide Roots team has you covered! Pairing a wine with Thanksgiving can be like threading a needle. The wine has to be delicate enough not to overwhelm the turkey while being substantial enough to stand up to the sides. A big oaky red…
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The case for putting Italian wines on your radar
The case for getting off the beaten path, and for exploring wines outside of typical locations and grapes
June 2021 Wine of the Month: Celler Jan Vidal Brut Cava Selecció
While Wide Roots has had an emphasis on Italian wines in the early part of our journey, we are also excited to bring on a producer from Catalunya, in Spain, and their excellent Cava. Since 1970, Cellar Jan Vidal has been producing high quality Cava and is now in the 3rd generation of the family….
Wine of the Month: “Gavigliano” Lacrima di Morro d’Alba DOC Superiore
Spring has a certain freshness to it, and we couldn’t imagine a more fitting wine to celebrate it than this one.
Wine of the Month Tasting: Villa Corniole Pinot Grigio Pietramontis Trentino Doc
Dispel myths about Pinot Grigio and taste this rugged Dolomite example with us.
Wine of the month: a Pinot Grigio that tastes like cool mountain breezes
The general descriptor for Pinot Grigio is a crisp, dry, refreshing white wine. And generally, when you visit a wine store, you will see many options for Pinot Grigio. Among all the variety of labels and bottles is also variety of how the wines show. In March we launched Villa Corniole, a winery launched and…
Introducing our partner from Sardinia…Audarya
A fun fact about Sardinia, known in Italy as Sardegna, and an island to the west of the Italian peninsula: It is a “blue” zone, one of five places in the world with the highest concentration of centenarians, or people who live 100 years and beyond. I’m sure many people want to know the secret,…
A special, great value, and lesser-known (not for long) region: Marche, Italy
Medieval towns, magical mountains that whisper of fortune-telling witches, and the music and performance of opera. The birthplace of Rafael, of the Renaissance, the painter and architect. A cuisine influenced by a beautiful coastline and the farming traditions of the inland parts of the region. We are in Le Marche, a region in central Italy,…
Now available…your convenient and simple quick reference guide to the Old World
Looking for something good, interesting, and inexpensive? Use this quick reference guide to easily explore Old World wines.
Wine Hack #2…Bevi Italiano.
Beloved Italy. In the US, we love Italian food; we dream of travel to Italy. Its history inspires us dating back to the Roman Republic. The cuisine of Italy is no secret to those of us in the US…and other countries, as well, as I’ve stumbled into good establishments serving Italian-inspired food all over the…