February 16, 2020 Touring Piemonte / Piedmont – Barbera, Barbaresco, Barolo & Beyond… Welcome to my first post on PiemonteMio – my revamp of Darryl’s great blog about life here in Piemonte (Piedmont): I hope you like…
December 24, 2019 Wine Tours with Evan Byrne After a difficult 2019 in which I turned 70, lost some mates and family, and endured treatment/surgery for cancer, I have decided to give…
June 28, 2017 It’s not just about Barolo, in fact it’s not just about nebbiolo It’s been an interesting spring and I was not really looking forward to the release of the 2014 Vintage of Barbaresco. I had experienced…
October 30, 2016 The grapes behind Italian Red Wines Interesting article featured on Fix.com by Joe Roberts exploring the history of some of my favourite grapes, Barbera and Nebbiolo.
July 13, 2016 New discoveries For the first time in a while it’s raining and humid outdoors so I have been replenishing racks in the cantina and opening some boxes…
February 17, 2016 2015 Successes 2015 will be year I will remember for a long time, not just for the the quality of the harvest, that will produce excellent…
January 14, 2016 Tourism in The Langhe accelerates in 2015 There was a dramatic increase in tourism to the area in 2015 which, whilst providing a welcome boost to local businesses, also had its…
December 23, 2014 2014 – weddings, parties, tastings and a difficult vintage First of all best wishes to everyone for a very merry Christmas and a healthy and lucky New Year from the Neive Baldwins. An…
June 25, 2014 My back garden becomes a Unesco World Heritage site At last the Langhe and Roero area where I live has become the 50th Italian site…
June 24, 2014 5:2 Diet in Piemonte part 2 and tasting at Demarie & Ettore Germano On a wet miserable day recently I started this update on the diet incorporating that week and other recent highlights. Friday started well with warm sunshine…
