Sommelier

It is almost eight years since I started this wine blog with the intention of making my notes from the sommelier course I was taking available to everyone...

If you are attending a sommelier course, you may already be familiar with my sommelier handbook dedicated to trainees taking the sommelier exam...

The topic of job satisfaction is particularly topical in our house: my husband and I talk about it a lot. And along with it comes...

Everything changes, even the Italian Sommelier Association. And with it changes its famous AIS exam. Since you often email me to find out....

Today is exactly one year since the worst day of my life, the day Dad died. This year everything has changed. I renewed...

Every day you send me beautiful emails (almost all of them, I would wring the necks of some...😅) and one of the things you ask me most often is 'how...

Valentine's Day has always been a cross and a delight for each one of us, even if we have been trained since we were kids to say that we don't care or that it's just the...

Giacomo Gironi's 10 Rules for being a perfect Sommelier (like him). Read his Decalogue of the Sommelier and write in a comment what you think!

Thanks to my reader Francesca, who just yesterday took the third level written exam at the AIS Mantova, with whom I am just now in the process of...

Facebook has for some time now been displaying 'Memories', i.e. reposting old posts that you have made on the platform in previous years. Today I...