Wine Stories
Tales, anecdotes and personal stories connected to wine.
Fragolino: the end justifies the means - Contest #StorieDiVino
"The end justifies the means" is perhaps one of the quotes that least represents me, but maybe it's the best one to describe this short story. I couldn't proceed with the tale without first mentioning my particular love for women, my many acquaintances in the social circles of my city, and my being very demanding when it comes to food and wine (though I am a wine lover, not an industry expert).
Wine and Love - Contest #StorieDiVino
On a warm night in mid-July, after having studied, a dinner invitation, a glass of wine, a sofa, love. My love for wine and its passion comes from afar, as from a young age I loved wine since my grandfather cultivated a small...
Wine on time - Contest #StorieDiVino
Every self-respecting story begins with a murder. Mine doesn't. Mine begins with a bottle of wine. A bubble of carbon dioxide clung to the bottom of a bottle of Lambrusco, trying in every way to resist the force of Arch...
Good Wine and Love Have No Boundaries - Contest #StorieDiVino
Good wine and love have no boundaries, a boy and a girl meet by chance, from different nations and traditions, but their families are united by a taste for good wine. While I was strolling along the seafront of Naples, I met a beautiful gi...
Journey with Cirò (red) - Contest #StorieDiVino
Fleshy and violet lips, that's the last normal thing I remember. The classic sequence of emptied wine bottles, shoes and socks thrown into the never quite random chaos of passion, a bed never sufficiently lit where one tried to die upon the other...
The Sommelier Cat - #StorieDiVino Contest
It's unlikely to encounter a sommelier cat, and yet, lucky me, I happen to know one. He lives in the old cantina sociale of my village, and he doesn't wear the tastevin purely out of comfort, also refusing to wear the less demanding little bell. He's haughty, the cat...
Strawberry and blueberry white - Contest #StorieDiVino
...in a few hours the color of her lips would have flooded her thoughts, perhaps even her clothes... The sky was clear and the air sparkled with goodness...Nicole would not have allowed anyone, not even the devil, to postpone dinner with Andrè For days...
The Words You Would Never Say - #StorieDiVino Contest
The house emptied of friends within minutes, it didn't matter much, what mattered was that among them there was also him. A few minutes passed before the doorbell rang. It was him, he had forgotten his phone. In that moment I felt a sensation that photographically could be compared to the face of those die-hard fans when their team scores, or, even worse, to the look of someone who finds themselves holding the winning lottery ticket...
Ornellaia, A Dazzling Encounter - Contest #StorieDiVino
My encounter with wine has roots stretching far back in time. Being an elementary school teacher, the students would tread grapes in the autumn period, to retrace the various stages of the winemaking process. The interest in wine has always been alive in me...
Chianti Fiaschi in the 70s - Contest #StorieDiVino
So many years have passed since those beautiful and special 70s, where my carefreeness was infinite.... I remember the student movements, the demonstrations, the endless waits for the release of some arrested comrade, the charges of the poli...
An Unexpected Night - Contest #StorieDiVino
A truly unexpected night... An evening that started off slow, my boyfriend was tired but wanted to see me. Relationships, you know, are made of compromises and mutual understanding, obviously within limits; so I accepted, even though, between us, I wasn't really feeling it...
Memories of an Aftertaste - Contest #StorieDiVino
It had been an evening like so many others. New and regular customers taking turns until closing time, nothing new. I rest in this wine bar in Rome for a year now; it's a nice place, people are calm, there's good music. I rest and I wait. I wait...