Leading Texas wine writer Katrina Rene includes Scarpa among her “top wines” for 2019.
“I loved so many of the wines from the Scarpa portfolio,” writes Houston-based wine writer Katrina Rene on her popularContinue Reading
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Kerin O’Keefe (Wine Enthusiast): 92 points for 2015 Barbaresco Tettineive
Scarpa 2015 Barbaresco Tettineive92 points This opens with enticing aromas of red berry, leather and underbrush. The structured, elegant palateContinue Reading
How do you explain what a “tailgate party” is to an Italian?
Something that never occurred to me happened yesterday. An epistemological conundrum of great import, no less. I found myself askingContinue Reading
Breaking the rules? Barbera and seafood can be a match made in heaven.
It’s one of the oldest taboos of historic gastronomy: Never serve red wine with fish. No one knows for certainContinue Reading
Rouchet (Ruché) vertical tasting notes
The following are tasting notes by Australian Burgundy lover and intrepid wine traveler Greg Love, who recently visited Scarpa andContinue Reading
Scarpa La Bogliona at L’Oca d’Oro, one of Austin’s “top ten restaurants 2019” (Austin American-Statesman)
“You have the beauty of summer cucumbers to play off the bitter salinity of the vegetable,” wrote Austin American-Statesman foodContinue Reading
Salsiccia di Verduno (and a couple of vitello tonnato sightings)
The Scarpa English-language blogger recently found himself at the LHANGAR wine bar in the village of Barolo where he hadContinue Reading
