Grazie Mille Milo

Milo Photo Antonio Magro

Manhattan will be next week, but first it was Milo.

Palmento made its world premiere on Sicilian (volcanic) soil in this picturesque town hanging from the eastern slopes of Mount Etna. The occasion was the 30th edition of ViniMilo—that’s grown from a local fest of jug wines to a happening that attracts independent winemakers and journalists from across Italy.

The Palmento tour starts September 9 in New York

 The Palmento tour combining readings, food, wine and winemakers from Sicily, begins in September (NY, Chicago, Cambridge). Robert continues the tour  in late October (San Francisco, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle). See the tour schedule. 

PALMENTO : Book Trailer

Watch the trailer for PALMENTO: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey by Robert V. Camuto. 

 

Southbound in France: Driving the old N7

Notre Dame de la Route

Special to the Washington Post

I should have listened to the lady behind the rental car counter. She warned me that there was no sense -- and too much traffic -- in taking Route Nationale 7 through the Paris suburbs.

But I was on a mission to drive almost every inch of France's mythic road, which connects the capital to the Cote d'Azur by nearly 600 miles of what's now largely a back road through La France Profonde, or deep France.

Talking terroir, philsophy and orgasm with Bruno Quenioux

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Bruno Quenioux is something of a wine legend in France. He probably has had something to do with the 21st century wine drinking habits across the Atlantic—even though Americans have never heard of him.  (And though he speaks little English.)

Talking Wine with Daryl Hall

Robert talks with Daryl Hall abut wine and music in the May 31 issue of Wine Spectator. See article here. 

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