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Special Facebook August game – guess the wine and win a bottle
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Edoardo Miroglio winery presents to you our special game for August with a superb prize – a bottle of wine. This games is featured as a Facebook event here - https://www.facebook.com/events/1205515599512153/ . You are welcome to join in! August is the Rose month and we ask you which is this wine? You could leave a reply in the Facebook event from 16th until 31st August by writing the full...
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Edoardo Miroglio winery with a stand at Green Life Expo 25-27 August in Flora Exhibition Center, Burgas
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Dear friends, We would like to invite you to Green Life Expo – an exhibition for natural and healthy lifestyle, which will be held from 25 to 27 August 2016 in the Flora Exhibition Center in the seaside city of Burgas. At the exhibition you will get acquainted with the cleanest and most environmentally friendly bio wines of Edoardo Miroglio winery. In the divine drink of organic varieties for...
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A note about Piobesi d’Alba, where the Tenuta Carretta is located
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From the department of "just in case you were wondering"... The Tenuta Carretta is one of Piedmont's oldest and most storied estates. It can trace its roots back to the 15th century. And it's well-known among the world's wine cognoscenti as one of the great, historic houses of Nebbiolo. But even some of the most veteran wine travelers have never heard of the township where it is located:...
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Silver medal for EM Chardonnay 2015 in the Chardonnay 2016 competition at Wine Fest Burgas
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Edoardo Miroglio winery took part in Wine Fest Burgas 2016 together with 30 Bulgarian wine cellars. Over 300 high quality wines were presented at this year's edition of the wine fest between 28 and 31st July in Flora exhibition center in Burgas sea garden. The festival was held for a third year in a row. The main theme was Chardonnay and there was a professional jury from the Bulgarian Vine and...
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Vineyard hikes and tours: A new way to visit Italian wine country
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Please note that Tenuta Carretta will closed from August 6 until August 21. It was just two years ago that UNESCO made the "vineyard landscape" of Piedmont a designated heritage site — for its historic and cultural significance and for its pure beauty. According to UNESCO's website: This landscape covers five distinct wine-growing areas with outstanding landscapes and the Castle of...
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A world-famous travel blogger visits our sister winery in Bulgaria
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Lesley Carter on her visit to the Edoardo Miroglio winery The Edoardo Miroglio winery is proud to announce that one of the most famous travel bloggers in the world – Ms. Lesley Carter from the U.S. — visited the estate in Elenovo during a 6-day visit to Bulgaria in mid-May as a part of a group sponsored by a tour operator from Sliven and the winery. The visit took place on the fifth...
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What does the word locanda mean? And the best view in Barolo.
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These days, most English-speakers know the Italian words osteria and trattoria. We could go into greater detail as the origins and minute differences between the two (including their regional usage). But basically they both mean restaurant. But there's another word that is often used to denote the casual dining experience of the osteria or trattoria. That word is locanda. It...
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Tenuta Carretta stories. From “Nebbiolo dei Roeri” to “Nebbiolo del Roero”: The Roero DOCG
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Until the 1970s in the provinces of Asti and Cuneo, Roero was not considered a distinct geographic region. During those years, Monferrato and Langhe were the only place names that people wrote or spoke of. Monferrato included all the land to the left of the Tanaro river while Langhe referred to the right. People working in wine did, however, use "Nebbiolo dei Roeri" or "Nebbiolo from Roero"...
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Red, white and Barolo? Happy Fourth of July to all of our friends in the U.S.A.!
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As I was throwing around ideas this morning for today's post, I Googled "red, white and Barbera" (in quotes) and found scores and scores of blogs and sites that used the expression around the Fourth of July. It's only natural that American wine lovers would reach for Barbera to pair with their Fourth of July grill-outs and barbecues: Barbera is arguably the world's most food-friendly red...
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Edoardo Miroglio’s Bulgarian Wines Impress Italian Journalists
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"Exhausted but extremely enthusiastic", said a group of Italian journalists who, from June 6-9, took part in a press tour devoted to one of the least known and most mysterious appellations in Eastern Europe: The Thracian Valley, a wine region located in the heart of Bulgaria. The writers spent four intense days among the endless sunflower fields and picturesque vineyards as they toured the...
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