Central Italy, Naples and Rome

Hi all, sorry for the delay in this post..... Now where we we when we last wrote... Oh Yes! Vinitaly.

We left Vinitaly and headed into Sangiovese country - Montipulicano to be exact. We toured Tuscany, Pienza and Montalcino but the vinegar maker we read about here we couldnt find and no-one had heard of him. It was a good few days break though after a pretty full on "drive, drive, drive" 10 days...

But unfortunately, the driving was to get much worse. We met a really nice sommellier at Binitaly who offered us a personal tour of Abbruzzo, the region on the east coast of italy level with Rome. We got there after 5 hours driving, she couldnt see us for 2 days, the weather was bad and the vinyards were all small and unattractive...... We spent 2 hours driving around before we made a rash decicion to head to the Amalfi coast, south of Napes that day. We had to go to Naples anyway.... so we drove and drove.... 6 more hours to get to Positano. A total of 13.5 hours, the last 3 in the rain on the winding mountain goat track one way roads. It was a harrowing drive.

The accommodation was great, but way too expensive, and we spent two days trying to contact De Nigris vingars to finalise the promised appointment there. I met the CEO, Dr De Nigris at the SFO fancy foods show and he promised me a tour personally... But he never returned calls or emails! Bugger, back in the car and back to rome.

a day in rome to rest, lunch with Robyns cousins, a night at the airport hotel as our flight is 7am to Barcelona and in a few hours we will be in sunny spain!

Love your work... Ian