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Bel Vino. A Year of Sundrenched Pleasure Among the Vines of by Isabella Dusi

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By Isabella Dusi

Isobel and Lou moved to Montalcino and have become Isabella and Luigi ten years in the past and so they have now been embraced via the locals and immersed of their antiquated customs and age-old feuds. In BEL VINO Isabella takes the reader on a winding trip to find the real aristocratic orgins of the world-renowned wine Brunello di Montalcino on whose classic the fortunes of a few of the Montalcinesi count. Taking us throughout the seasons of the wine harvest, Dusi weaves a direction that brings within the neighborhood white-hooded priests who've lived within the Abbey of Sant' Antimo given that a minimum of 814; the final ultimate neighborhood shoemaker; the harvesting of mushrooms, olives and muffins; an archery contest with a neighborhood village at which passions run excessive; and the struggle to avoid wasting a 1000-year-old church with out foundations. As an insider, Dusi is ready to painting Tuscan lifestyles with all its idyllic charms when additionally giving an exciting perception into the day-by-day workings of the traditional village of Montalcino.

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Collina d’Italia, Type Service Editore, Massa — Creativita Popolare Montalcinesi, Nencini Editore CHAPTER ONE The Monks’ Sandals Following the contours of the wooded crag the pebbly track curves downwards, then climbs steadily into oak woods. An hour crossing from hill to hill drifts into two. My knees adjust to the hilly terrain, and my mind is soothed by the silence in this shadowy oak coppice. For the first kilometre or two I have skirted ranks of vines surrounding stone farmhouses and stepped stealthily along a rocky track, hoping not to rouse sleeping dogs.

They have grown from rowdy children to young adults anxious about missing a university lecture. On weekends we watch them, smart young men walking hand in hand with girlfriends, greeting us on the evening passeggiata around the village. And we have watched them grow in confidence and skill, training with Dottore Luciano, proud to become archers for Quartiere Pianello. Dissension has surfaced because the archery tournaments between the four neighbourhoods have been won year after year by each of the other three quartieri.

Dottore Luciano nodded his head in tacit agreement, accom­panied by an expressive hand movement that confirmed his words as his outstretched hand cut vertically through the air. ‘Magari, perhaps you may be right, but it is not as easy as it may seem to you to change the rules whenever someone is not happy. I know you are deluded, but how do you think Massimo and Alessandro and our other senior archers feel? They carry this tremendous responsibility on their shoulders, everyone’s expectations and the honour of our quartiere, all through the year.

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