June in Siena between wines and miracles
Posted by admin in Archive, Events, Food & Wine on 31. May, 2011 | 0 Comments
If you’re curious about things to do in Siena during June, here we have suggestions and previews. The city is always bustling and one of the places where to meet people and where culture and gourmet are combined together is the Enoteca Italiana. Here is already started the 45th Wines Week (that will continue until the [...]
Passion, quality and transparency: the Salcheto Winery
Posted by admin in Archive, Food & Wine on 18. Mar, 2011 | 0 Comments
How to combine the excellence of products as wine with the respect for environment? This is an indissoluble tie: projects like the eco sustainable winery Salcheto, in Montepulciano. Thanks to the most modern technologies and to the alternative energies (geothermal science, biomasses, photovoltaic, green building), the Salcheto reduces to zero the carbon footprint (the CO2 [...]
The Medicea Fortress: a Siena’s monument, between past and present
Posted by admin in Archive, Culture on 28. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Among the various attractions of Siena there is one that rises majestically above surrounding hills: the Medicea Fortress, dumb witness of important tales and events of the city. Her history begins in a distant past: in 1548, infact, the emperor Carlo V, king that ruled over extended domains in three continents, ordered to his commander [...]
The wines of Siena: History and curiosities of Chianti
Posted by admin in Archive, Food & Wine on 05. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
Since ancient times Tuscany, and especially Siena and the province, has been closely linked to wine making.Despite that the first traces of vines have been traced to about 4000 years B.C. in the region of Mesopotamia, some fossil traces of Vitis Vinifera were found in the Travertino marble in San Vivaldo, which lead us be [...]
