Wine Vacation: Sleeping in Amarone Country — Villa Quaranta Tommasi, Valpolicella

There are hotel spas and then there is the Terme della Valpolicella. Most hotel spas give you eucalyptus steam rooms, a swimming pool, and a list of treatments with names like “Serenity Journey” that involve warm stones and someone playing a flute somewhere in the background. The spa at Villa... The post Wine Vacation: Sleeping in Amarone Country — Villa Quaranta Tommasi, Valpolicella appeared first on The Finest Italian Wine .

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A Murdered Wife, a Wandering Ghost, and the Best Vineyard Stay on Lake Garda

There’s a castle at the southern tip of Lake Garda that you can only reach on foot, across a drawbridge, over water on every side. Cars stop outside the gate. You walk in like everyone has for the last seven hundred years. The Scaligero Castle in Sirmione has stood since... The post A Murdered Wife, a Wandering Ghost, and the Best Vineyard Stay on Lake Garda appeared first on The Finest Italian Wine .

Verona’s Best-Kept Wine Secret Is a Six-Room Hotel

Here is a sentence I did not expect to write about a hotel in the middle of a city. They make their own wine. Not “they have a good wine list.” Not “the sommelier is very knowledgeable.” The family who owns Massimago Wine Suites also owns a working winery forty... The post Verona’s Best-Kept Wine Secret Is a Six-Room Hotel appeared first on The Finest Italian Wine .

🍷 The Veneto Wine Vacation Nobody Tells You About

Most people who visit the Veneto never actually see the Veneto. They land at Venice Marco Polo airport, take a water taxi into the city, spend three days walking over bridges and eating near the Rialto, and then fly home. Which is wonderful, truly. Venice is extraordinary. But it’s also... The post 🍷 The Veneto Wine Vacation Nobody Tells You About appeared first on The Finest Italian Wine .

Wine Vacation: Sleeping in Amarone Country — Villa Quaranta Tommasi, Valpolicella

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A Murdered Wife, a Wandering Ghost, and the Best Vineyard Stay on Lake Garda

Verona’s Best-Kept Wine Secret Is a Six-Room Hotel

🍷 The Veneto Wine Vacation Nobody Tells You About