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Cacio e pepe is the greatest pasta in the Italian culinary canon. Six ingredients. 100% technique. Cacio e pepe is the omelet of the Italian kitchen. All of the ingredients must be of the highest quality. The quality of the peppercorns matters. The salt level of the water the pasta is cooked in matters…
Cacio e pepe is the greatest pasta in the Italian culinary canon. Six ingredients. 100% technique. Cacio e pepe is the omelet of the Italian kitchen. All of the ingredients must be of the highest quality. The quality of the peppercorns matters. The salt level of the water the pasta is cooked in matters…
Natalino Crognaletti’s wife, Thanthiwa, is one of the greatest cooks in all of Italy. She is of Thai decent but her food makes you think her family had lived in Italy for the past thousand years. She has the touch- that inherent knowledge that makes great chefs, great. We recently asked Natalino to take a small video of Thanthiwa making tortellini. Note the care and the love.
A list of where you can find our wines, other fine wine, and delicious prepared food. These are many retailers and restaurants that we work with in our direct distribution states: NY, WA, OR, and CA; along with their current business status. Thanks for supporting these wonderful shops and restaurants!🍷🍽
Cacio e pepe is the greatest pasta in the Italian culinary canon. Six ingredients. 100% technique. Cacio e pepe is the omelet of the Italian kitchen. All of the ingredients must be of the highest quality. The quality of the peppercorns matters. The salt level of the water the pasta is cooked in matters…
There are no dragons. What there is is an archipelago of islands that consists of walls of limestone that rise right out of the sea. There is a history which dates back to the time of ancient Greece, and a people- the Ardiaei- whose tribe, the Illyrians, staunchly defended these islands…
The best value pet nat in the Northeast is ready! We were fielding requests for Morphos back in September and it’s finally coming in. And there is no one better than owner/winemaker Brian Smith to talk about this release. Below is Brian’s personal note to us regarding the Morphos 2019…
What’s all the hubbub about? We gave an Oregon winemaker a blank slate for R&D and here’s what happened. As we talked about in the last Thanksgiving offering, we’ve worked hard these past couple of years to really develop our domestic conversation in the portfolio- specifically coming out of Oregon…
Our thoughts on the whole business of Thanksgiving wine pairing: We are members of so many email distribution lists, and like clockwork somewhere around 3-4 weeks ago the Thanksgiving emails started to rain into our inboxes. The first are cute- reminders of a time of the year…
Four separate farmers from Monferrato in the Alto Piedmont. Friends. By themselves each is working hard to work in that classical way, the old way. They came together in 2016 out of a love for their land, for the work, and for a tradition that has dated back to Davide’s grandfather and Ezio’s father sitting […]
