A few months back, Paul Balke reached out to me to ask if I’d be interested in a one week trip to what he calls the “North Ariatic”. As per his definition, this is a strip of winemaking lands that compromise pieces of northeast Italy as well as Western Slovenia and Croatia. Covering these areas a great deal over the last two decades, I of course agreed, interested to see how this grouping of regions would play out. As fate would bake it, we happened to be there during the […]

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