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JUNE 2006 - SUMMER IN ITALY

EAST OF PANZANO (CHIANTI)

A beautiful Chianti day leads Dom P back to an old favourite - the Ristoro di Lamole - high in the hills overlooking Panzano - the restaurant with a setting to end all settings + excellent food. 

 

Below - Joint proprietor Paolo (Filippo is at the seaside with his wife Kalinka and their two little children) and Johana, originally from Austria, who was working here when Dom P first appeared on the Chianti scene in 2000. 

Below - Dom P concentrates on the Lamole di Lamole Riserva and the salsiccia e fagiole, Johana demonstrates a new Italian device for aerating and measuring a glass of wine (should you want less than a full bottle).

Broom hedge of the Vignamaggio estate on the winding road to Lamole

Further East - the hamlet of Volpaia, which houses a modern winery built into the cottages, and also Carla Barucci's outstanding casalinga / contadina  restaurant "La Bottega" (below).  And you can get your classico or super-tuscan from the winery shop at the base of the torre.

 

 

 

 

8500 kms and looking well travelled - this summer's leased Peugeot 307 SW

  

Pig happiness amidst more broom on the ridge road back to Panzano.  This is a big cinghiale area, so the domesticated ladies are probably having an after breakfast dream of a big wild boar poking his snout or whatever through the gate.  It's quiet now because it's summer, but in winter the area is often swarming with hunters in camouflage gear looking for cinghiale to shoot.

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2007 Home Page Ciao Adriano Paradoxplace Domparadox 2006 Home Page 2006 Page List Abbeys Visited Italy June 2006 Spello Infiorata East of Panzano France Vignory Alpine Crossing Senanque Abbey Valmagne Abbey Fontfroide Abbey Spain & Portugal Al-Andalus Chronology Poblet Monastery Santes Creus Monastery Rueda Monastery Navarra Sanguesa La Oliva Lyre Abbey Canas Abbey La Rioja S-D de Silos Burgos Villasirga Camino to Burgos Rio Elsa Treasures Leon Camino to Leon S de Compostela Alcobaca Batalha North to Evora Salema Sao Vicente Rabida & Colombus NW Andalucia SW Andalucia Central Spain 2005 Home Page 8 Tuscan Days 2004 Home Page

 

Bellatrovata and Paradoxplace are the creations of Adrian Fletcher

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All original material © Adrian Fletcher 2000-07 - The contents may not be reproduced without permission.

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