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| Dried grapes ready for making wine |
We started with breakfast at the Rialto down the street where there is a vine growing inside the cafe and then pokes out through a hole and outside it hugs the balcony.
We met at Ponte Vittoria. My two friends and expert quilters, Roberta and Susanna, were our guides. We stopped in at a Roman church before heading to the vineyards. They had lots of good information to share with us about the typical italian gardens and italian ways.
We stopped at several villas.
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| Posing in front of Santa Sofia. |
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| On the grounds of Villa Giona |
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| The garden at Villa Giona |
The wine tasting was very popular!
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| This is how you drink the sweet recioto. That's right,
pour it on your sweet cookie.
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We tasted four different kinds of wines from the producers Villa Crine di Venturini Giovanni Battista: Valpolicella Classico, Ripasso, Amarone, Recioto. The sweet dessert wine has been their first prize winner at many wine festivals. All 4 wines were so good. I bought two bottles for my husband but I wanted to buy more!
The family that hosted the tour was so wonderful!! So loving towards each other and so passionate about their winemaking. Their son will be following in their foot steps.
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| Giovanni and Mara, husband and wife, wine makers. |
Our lunch was a selection of local cheeses, home-made salami and grilled polenta.
After wine touring, we stopped at Susanna's house for a coffee and sweets and a taste of her home-made marmalade! and a tour and a quilting demo by Roberta which turned out to be a full class!
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| Roberta shows us an example of the curved piecing we learned. |
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| Susanna's studio. She has her great grandmother's shawl framed and under glass between the two windows. |
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