Special offers Cilento

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Crystal blue sea, fine sandy beaches, rugged and wild nature, culture and traditions of millennia, unforgettable cuisine tastes: this is the Cilento, land ideal to spend an unforgettable holiday. read more…

The unique flavor of Sorrento Aromatic Oils

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Tired of the usual recipes and you’re looking for original and different flavors?
The spices oils and, easy cook oils can help flavor your dishes and embellish your table with wholesome and tasty flavors.
The mill Gargiulo, on the hills of Sorrento, produces and sells the widest variety of aromatics oils: hot pepper oil, basil oil, garlic, rosemary oil until to the most special and unique as the oil bruschetta olive oil, puttanesca oil, marinate olive oil or spaghettata.
An excellent food and condiment also for the benefits that extra virgin olive oil has on our organism because it prevents the alteriosclerosi, an activity of antioxidant and protects the heart and arteries.
So quality, health and taste in one product.
The mill Gargiulo gives you the opportunity to purchase from the comfort of your home the extra virgin olive oil and aromatic oils that best meet your tastes, and not only, also gives you the opportunity to see a section where you can find recipes olive oil ideas for your lunch and your dinner special. The product that differentiates it from all other Italian mills, however, is lemon oil or orange oil of an unique bounty and ideal for salads or to accompany fish dishes.
For more information on all its products please visit olive oil from italy.

Italianwineselction Suggestions

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Who says pizza-wine pairing is wrong?
Experts, such as Terminiello brothers, show us some labels and types of wine perfect to accompany a dinner or a lunch of pizza in all variants.
The Terminiello brothers are the owners of the famous restaurant O Canonico and the wine shop online with the widest selection of the best Italian wines.
The pizza margherita is perfectly in keeping with the Lambrusco, a term for a number of different varieties from which we can distinguish Lambrusco di Sorbara, Lambrusco Grasparossa; Lambrusco Salamis. The most famous is the one produced by the Cantine Ceci of ruby color and smooth, slightly crisp and fresh taste.
Pizza marinara instead is combined with white wine as Falanghina, Fiano or Greco di Tufo. Finally, a type of pizza of stronger taste such as Pizza Salumi may be accompanied with a strong and full-bodied red wine such as Aglianico Pallagrello Black
You can buy these and other of the best Italian wine production until to the most rare and precious bottles on Italianwineselcection e-commerce dedicated to selling wines of Terminiello Brothers that provide customer knowledge, experience and a large culture about the sector of wine. For the summer 2010 they thought the following promotion: If you buy Sparkling Wine for an amount of more than 100 euro you will get a free bottle of sparkling Franciacorta Brut Montenisa. For more information on promotions please visit the wine sell.

Gastronomic tradition of the Amalfi coast

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The culinary traditions of the Amalfi Coast have been affected strongly fluctuating periods of glory and poverty related respectively to the dawn and to the auge and the forfeiture of the Republic of Amalfi. read more…

The Golden Glass

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The Italian American entrepreneur and founder of Slow Food, Lorenzo Scarpone, he conceived and organized the Golden Glass event held June 12 in the enchanting bay of San Francisco that can accommodate hundreds of people. The event was characterized by meeting among the best Italian wines and mouth-watering recipes of Italy.
Now in its seventh edition Golden Glass has enabled thousands of Americans who both love Italian wine to taste about 100 different labels and a variety of culinary delights prepared by chefs dialedis carefully for the occasion. In short, a true food and wine tour to celebrate the Italian product and in particular the Italian wine in accordance with the traditions and principles of sustainability.
An appointment has become important for chefs, sommeliers, wine experts from international, journalists and other professionals. So Italian wine landed in San Francisco and this has prompted many producers to become a wine shop online to meet desires and needs of wine lovers worldwide.. The borders were killed and the number of Italian wine shop continues to grow!

Food and wine tour in Sorrento: choose Hotel Savoia

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Sorrento offers tourists a perfect combination between nature, sea and culture and enjoy in every season a mild, dry climate. This summer, however, is perhaps the best season to visit for those who love the sea and want to enjoy pleasant days on the beach under the warm sun of Sorrento or rich and delicious dinners on the beach facing the gulf of Naples.
So Sorrento and all the villages of Sorrento peninsula are rich in beauty from artistic to landscape to seaweed and finally are famous worldwide for their authentic flavors of culinary traditions.
If you are looking for a comfortable, welcoming, central, but economic hotel Hotel Savoia is ready to welcome you. Among cheap hotels in Sorrento is offering the best service, the more good breakfast and the best proposals. 3 star hotel just steps from the main square of Sorrento, the train station and the port of Sorrento offers double, triple and quadruple rooms and is suitable for couples, singles and families.
Hotel Savoia has an agreement with the best restaurants of Sorrento, the tavern, the Lantern, the abbot and the Basilica, and offers its customers the opportunity to choose a different restaurant every night enjoying all kinds of cuisine from the more homemade to more high. The special price is only 140 euros per night per couple. Book rooms available>>special offers summer sorrento

Italian Wine and Web

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Wine is part of history and Italian culture. Domenico Bosco, responsible for the wine sector of Coldiretti, argues that “today the italian wine sector and italian wine merchant employ over one million people, up 50% over the last decade and that growth is related to wine tourism, web and production of alternative energy”.
The italian wine sector, as shown by data presented at Vinitaly is best reacted to the crisis and offered employment opportunities. Also last year, increased sales of Italian wine abroad one of the reasons for increased productivity in this sector.
The process of winemaking, from vineyard to bottle, comprises about 18 steps and involves about 18 productive sectors by bottlers, distributors, sellers, sommelier up to the tourism and marketing. Today, there is increasing tendency to buy wine online through the deployment of wine shop online from the comfort of your own home you can choose from a selection of wines and simply with a click to purchase. The wine has therefore become a new frontier of financial investment.

Olive oil and the new label speaker

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The international exhibition of italian extravirgin olive oil was held under the Vinitaly in Verona from 8 to 12 April 2010 and was dedicated to spreading knowledge of international and national oil production between consumers and operators. And not only was an opportunity for companies to assert its presence on the market to spread the culture of olive oil quality and present the news.
The most interesting novelty presented in this edition was the “speaker label” for the best italian oils
It is not science fiction. It is smart label adhesive, a sort of smart identity card, which “speaks to the consumer and tells the story of the product with a movie.” The label can cause a lot of information, using a code, QR-CODE: the consumer frames the code with a camera-equipped mobile application can read and see information displayed on the phone about traceability organoleptic quality of the producer and also movies.

Olive oil and Mediterranean diet

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Who says olive oil is the enemy of health and fitness?
The base of the Mediterranean diet, dietary pattern of most industrial countries, is extra virgin olive oil that was rich in natural antioxidants slow the aging process of cells and also plays a protective role for our body.
And not only! Olive oil is known as the most digestible fat, as characterized by 75% from monounsaturated fat, and 9% from polyunsaturated fats than to avoid a health-conscious diet and body. The monounsaturated instead stimulate the production of bile and aid digestion by increasing the immune system.
In short, many reasons to enjoy the olive oil: stimulates metabolism, promotes digestion, prevents cardiovascular disease, eliminate toxins and prevents dehydration
So we can without guilty eat garlic bread with olive oil and fresh tomatoes. Today you can buy olive oil on line thanks to Sorrentolio that also offers citrus flavoured olive oil, honey, spicy oil, truffle oil.

International Conference on Wine Industries

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In the period 1-3 April 2009 there will be the 5th International specialised conference on sustainable viticulture in the cities of Trento and Verona in Italy with the title : winery waste and ecological impacts management.

Wine industry has a benefit in recent years in the market of agro-food, but this activity is linked to the production of large amounts of polluted effluents, both liquid and solid, which have to be properly managed to prevent environmental problems and to preserve resources. The conference will cover topics directly related to the effluent treatment as well as sustainable viticulture, with emphasis on the rational use of water.

After the appointments in France ( in 1994 and in 1998) and those in Spain ( 2004 ) and Chile 2006, 2009 is the Italian turn for this event, organised by the Universities of Verona and Trento.

For more informations >> Winery 2009