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GrapeHops Wine, Beer and Food Adventures in Italy, Spain and Beyond

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GrapeHops · 2M ago

An “Edible” Tour of Italy’s Beautiful Piemonte Region

We love the craft beer scene in Piemonte, but of course there is another beverage coming out of the region: wine. Piemonte is also known for local and seasonal foods and products.  What better way to check them out than with the publishers of Edible Santa Barbara magazine? September 22 – 29, 2012, w
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GrapeHops · 12M ago

Day 8 – Goodbyes

A sad morning as it was time for everyone to depart. Megan was the first to go, catching a flight to Barcelona. You can follow her continuing travels at Drunkenly Aware. Then Palma and Brad (who had flown in the night before) left for their tour of Bologna. Palma leads groups there through Palmabell
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GrapeHops · 12M ago

Day 7 – Rialto/Ghetto

We have a few things on the agenda today, but to start we return to the Rialto Market. Shannon is preparing dinner this evening (I’m the sous chef – lots of slicing and dicing for me), so we want to pick up things at the market. Some of the group decides to join us, and [...]
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 6 – Castello/Clocks

We’re winding down now in our travels and we’ve covered a lot of ground (in all, sights, food, wine and spritzes – oh and Kevin held up the beer end for us nicely too), so we decided on a lazy morning before we hopped onto the vaporetto for the 30 minute ride to Castello. There [...]
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 5 – Fish/Rest

This morning we headed over to the Rialto Mercato, where we met Nan, of Living Venice and author of Italy: Instructions for Use as well as Lolo, President of the Fish Market (please don’t ask me his real title in Italian). The combo teamed up to give us a frenetic tour (it’s hard nailing Lolo [...]
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 4 – Wine/Grappa

Today was our mainland day.  We got to the station early (in time for a round of espresso/cappuccino) before catching our train to Verona. There our guide met us and took us for a lovely day visiting a small winery (producing some amazing Valpolicella Ripasso and Amarone) for a tour and tasting, fol
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 3 – Sunny Skies/Blue Water

We lucked out today. Original forecasts called for rain but it was a gorgeously clear morning. So clear, we could see mountains in the distance. I’d been to Venice about five times and had never seen mountains! We spent the day tooling around the lagoon in an open boat, meandering through the “grand
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 2 – Rainy/Lazy Sunday

Well, no one likes rain when they travel but luckily this seems to be the only day we’ll experience in Venice and probably couldn’t pick a better day. First though, it held off until after breakfast so we were able to enjoy our first breakfast together on the veranda but once that was done, it [...]
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

Day 1 – Meeting/Greeting & Arsenale

I’ve been on the ground here in Venice since Wednesday, and our tour officially started Saturday! We have a great group of people.
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GrapeHops · 1Y ago

St. Francis Winery

I want to do a piece summing up all of our winery visits.  Well, that’s what I want but if it gets unweildy, I may break it up.  Though, I want to treat St. Francis differently from the get go because our experience there went beyond a basic wine tasting. St. Francis offers a food [...]
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