Muchas gracias Giulia y Ricardo the wine shop owners from Forte dei Marmi
Enoteca Giulia, is place where one is surrounded by love. Love for life, love of novelties love of good food and great wines …. Love for people and especially for Ricardo Giulia’s very nice Spanish husband.
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Forte dei Marmi, now a cult seaside resort for Russian billionaires and before
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that for the Agnelli family. It is a place where it is difficult to offer the usual things; here everything must necessarily be different.
Giulia has succeeded in this. And without much effort also, because she is one who reads Cervantes in the original language, she blends design objects other things invented with exquisite taste.
Let me give you an irreverent example, but all the same you will understand better, al you need to do is visit the bathroom.
The wine shop is not very large but one finds there the top of European winemaking, with a little more space for Italian and Spanish products. Here too the furnishings are informal, funny and is really a cultural puzzle. What a
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woman this Giulia! The restaurant hall is an authentic invention, from the roof which curves in lightly, to the tables built from the lids off wooden bottle crates.
In the summer the seating space doubles up as there are tables outside as well <<work becomes frenetic but stimulating>> says Giulia telling us the history of the place << Ricardo and I wanted to propose our Spanish and Italian worlds in the cuisine and in the wines>>.
At the beginning it was only a very small wine bar, in the summer we earned the money that allowed us to survive in the winter, then the place grew with us, we built the kitchen, then the rest and now we have many guests who follow is with passion>>.
I have no doubts! The dinner organized for my Brunello, Rosso di Montalcino and Orcia Docwines was an exquisite mix of Spanish and Tuscan cultures. The
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guests were great wine lovers, a public that every wine producers dreams of. Even the choice of the collaborators was perfect with Christian the sommelier and the very clever chefs Marino and Federica who, when we left to come home, gave us cakes for breakfast the next day. Well done Giulia the future of Italian wine and tourism is in the hands of people who are as impassioned as you