L'Insieme

L'Insieme was founded in 1997 by Elio Altare. The project includes 6 other wineries: Mauro Veglio, Gianfranco Alessandria, Corino, Grasso, Morando, Caviola and Revello. Each winery chooses their best crus and makes the L'Insieme wine with those grapes. 

For every bottle produced, 5 euros goes to the fund. And each year on November 11, the fund is given to a charity. The beneficiaries include many types of charities, and the fund has given to over 42 different causes so far. 

What is the significance of November 11th? It's St. Martin's Day. St. Martin is the patron saint of warriors and winemakers, and a guardian of the unfortunate. He symbolized charity and compassion.

Altare L'Insieme. 
Revello Fratelli L'Insieme. 
Gianfranco Alessandria L'Insieme.
Silvio Grasso L'Insieme. 
And check out the L'Insieme website! 

If you want to learn more, Dan Gorge wrote about L'Insieme on his blog.

New Year 2014: Felice Anno Nuovo

It's been a good year, with lots of good wine, great food and incredible people.
I've tried more new wines this year than the year before, met new people in the wine industry and tried different types of winery work. Safe to say it's been an amazing year "wine wise". 

Hopefully next year will be equally great or perhaps even better. Maybe I'll get to try Harvest, something I always miss due to school. Since I graduate in May, I hope that I'll be able to go to Harvest, even though I'll have to go to the gym everyday if I want to be any help at all. 

 

Thank you to everyone who made this year great! Especially my friends in Italy! I miss you guys and hope to see you soon!

Felice Anno Nuovo!

Winemakerselfie

 

 

Summer 2014 in Wine

 

Mangé

 Mangé is a new restaurant in La Morra. The owners used to have a restaurant in Casteglione Falletto, Le Torri, but they moved. The food is excellent, the wine list is fantastic and the people are wonderful. 

For lunch we had a Ettore Germano Herzu and Mauro Veglio Langhe Nebbiolo. The wine is so cheap compared to Norway, so we are all in heaven. 

We will definitely go back here. In fact, we are having dinner there tomorrow night!

Mario Veglio and the World Cup 2014