When you are a wine lecturer, you should have several competences. Knowledge about all grapes, characteristics of all wine producing areas, wine production processes, selling, serving and storing the product of wine. This whole blend should come with lots of enthusiasm and teaching skills. So far so good. There was, until last week, one thing missing; as a ‘ wijnjuf’ , I never has been in a vineyard during the harvesting time in order to select the grapes and to help with the harvest and the first steps of wine production. Now I have! The last week I have been in a little village called Nocchi, nearby the mountains above Pisa. A small winery offered the possibility to experience the life of a wine maker and on top of it; some gastronomic cooking classes to learn how to cook specialties of the dishes from this beautiful area. When arriving in the vineyard, the Sangiovese bunches were smiling at me, waited to be picked! It was remarkable to taste the differenc...
Herkenbare verhalen uit het leven van de gastvrije wijnjuf