On the Lash, Yesterdays foray into the Mestre wine world was without rhyme or reason and without a real stand out wine. Myself and a friend took it upon ourselves to try out the various wine bars stumbling roughly between my red hot 35°c apartment and Piazza Ferretto, ending up, typically, at the Lupo Nero…
Category: Ruffino
Italian Wine Fraud
This year Italian Wine overtook French as the world’s most exported wine so it’s not surprising that the industry is riddled with con artists attempting to take a piece of the action. Italy has been on the receiving end of some of the largest wine scams ever seen with a famous recent example effecting the…