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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Another Day ... Another Cheese Tasting ...


Another day .. another cheese tasting ... (yawnnnn). 

Just kidding of course! This was a great one! We accompanied some restaurant owners to Luigi Guffanti Cheese Producers, in nearby Arona, for a cheese tasting event open to restaurants, shops, and other distributors of their products. On an unassuming street, in a nondescript building, distinguishable today only by the large balloon inflated outside to draw attention to the event, a large group of people were gathered inside for a tour of the cheese cantina, to be followed by a buffet tasting.

Here are some of the highlights:


You would never know that underground, below this parking terrace, is a gigantic cantina filled with thousands of cheeses. This is the entrance to Luigi Guffanti. Inside those doors there is a retail shop to the right, and the rest is offices and business space. Following through to a stone staircase, we descended into the cheese cantina.

Luigi Guffanti, Formaggi per Tradizione da 1876, is what their business cards say. I'm not sure how many generations into the family the man below is, but he is the current patriach and current Luigi of this proud family dynasty. It was he who proudly showed us around the cantina. Read on; there's a lot of interesting information here:

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Event: Carnivale 2014




Hear ye, hear ye! Carneval week has arrived again! The annual procession of King Falcett took place on a warm and sunny day, and after the Falcett procession to Piazza Marconi the entire entourage continued on to Piazza Cadorna as always for the costume judging. After a proclamation from the King and Queen, the contestants each had a chance to display their costumes. There were categories for single costumes, pairs, and groups. Below are the first and second place winners this year:
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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Wine: Travaglini Gattinara



Last evening we drank this wine: Travaglini Gattinara DOCG. The wine, made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes, is grown and bottled by the Travaglini family on their property in Gattinara, in Piemonte, only about 40 minutes from Stresa by car. The winery was established by Clemente Travaglini in the 1920s and has been passed down generation to generation. It's an excellent wine, but what I want to tell you about is the bottle, which is unique among wine bottles.
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