Virtual wine tourism to travel with imagination waiting to be able to really do it. This is what the 900 Donne del Vino (Women of Wine) from all the Italian regions who are flooding the internet with images of their wineries and vineyards propose. Many videos of less than a minute, connected by the hashtag ledonnedelvinoconvoi who want to encourage those who are locked in their homes during the coronavirus epidemic.
Videos that convey passion for their work but especially the courage of women with a fighting spirit who are not willing to bend to the difficulties created by the epidemic. Testimonies, real, direct, of everyday life, made in a craft way by the same protagonists who speak in first person and perhaps, for this, emotional.

#LEDONNEDELVINOCONVOI VIDEOS TO MAKE VIRTUAL WINE TOURISM WHILE YOU ARE LOCKED IN THE HOUSE

Propose a virtual “escape” in the world of wine to winelovers who normally, with spring, arrived in the cellars, wine bars, restaurants with the intention of discovering great wines … And instead this year they have to stay home. A postponed appointment say the Women of Wine with confident look towards the future:”Do not give up and stay at home, we are with you and we are waiting for you soon!”

PROJECT GANBEI THE SOLIDARITY OF WINE WITHOUT BORDERS

Project Ganbei is raising funds to purchase medical supplies in China under the supervision of a medical team. …

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by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Some vegetables are cooked three times: boiled, fried and recooked in tomato. In the end, even cauliflower, which is normally not very tasty, becomes a king’s treat.
In Montalcino, one of the most delicious recipes is made with the same three cooking and traditionally solemn lunch of August: rooster stewed with recooked celery .
Here I describe a winter version based on thistles that brings to the table the intense taste of the Tuscan tradition and can be served as a side dish of a roast or alone.

INGREDIENTS FOR CARDI RIFATTI

A cardoon of about one kilo, 8 ripe tomatoes or 150 g of tomato sauce, two eggs, flour, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, salt and black pepper.

PREPARATION OF CARDI RIFATTI

Wash, cut into pieces of about ten centimeters the ribs of the thistle removing with the knife the hardest ribs. Boil them in salted water for over half an hour.

Peel the tomatoes, break them and toss them in the pan where the garlic is frying in the extra virgin olive oil. Add salt, sprinkle with black pepper and slowly remove the sauce.
Mix the eggs and salt, flour the thistle, pass them in the eggs and then throw them in the hot oil making them brown on each side.…

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By Donatella Cinelli Colombini

The name of this dish changes from village to village but the recipe changes very  little. It is a delicious traditional bread soup with cabbage from southern Tuscany, typical of the winter time . In Montalcino we call it washed bread, in Trequanda, where the Fattoria del Colle is located, they call it slices or cabbage with slices.
More than with any other dish you can appreciate the freshly pressed extra virgin oil , especially what is made from olives with a full taste and fragrant scent.
Consequently like all very simple recipes the quality of the result depends on the ingredients that must be extraordinary, the cabbage obviously but mostly the  EVO oil, the vinegar and especially the bread, rigorously without salt and handmade with sourdough.
The most suitable wine to accompany this soup is a Chianti Superiore or a Doc Orcia that come from the  same territory as the oil that, in our case, is from Trequanda where the Fattoria del Colle is located.

INGREDIENTS FOR 4 PEOPLE

1,5KG of cauliflower, 4 ounces of Tuscan homemade bread, garlic, extra virgin olive oil, wine vinegar, salt and pepper

PREPARATION OF PAN LAVATO

First of all wash the cabbage, chop it coarsely and boil it with its leaves in salted water. …

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By Donatella Cinelli Colombini

It must be said that in Italy the problem of alcohol abuse is much lower than in other consumer countries. If in fact in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania and Portugal the average alcohol consumed in a year is 12.5 liters per person. In Italy it is between 5 and 7 liters as in Japan, Iceland or China. It must be known , in the ranking of the OECD countries on alcohol abuse, in the first place are the USA, and Italy is in last position.
However wine is only 12% of the total alcoholic beverages consumed by about 2.3 billion people in the world. To alcohol should be added drugs which are often used in a combined way, especially by young people, to accelerate the euphoric effect.

COMBATING ALCOHOL ABUSE AND EDUCATING ABOUT MODERATE CONSUMPTION OF WINE

Tackling abuse through actions of moderate consumer education has been at the heart of the policy of historically wine producing countries such as Italy, France and Spain. These are the countries where average per capita consumption has fallen most in the last 50 years. In Italy it is now 35 liters per year and seems to have stabilized after a real collapse when occasional consumers have replaced the usual ones.…

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