Culinary Adventures with Camilla

  This is a sponsored post written by me in conjunction with the October #ItalianFWT event. Wine samples were provided for this post and this page may contain affiliate links This month, the Italian Food Wine Travel bloggers are turning their eyes towards Abruzzo. David of Cooking Chat is hosting and that lucky duck traveled to Abruzzo last year for a press trip. You can read his event invitation and some more information about Abruzzo:  here . If you are reading this early enough, feel free to join in the live Twitter chat on Saturday, 5 October 2019 at 8 o'clock, Pacific time. Search for #ItalianFWT to follow along and add that to your tweets so we can see your comments. Cin cin . In the meantime, here are the Abruzzo posts...these will go live between Friday, October 4th and Satuday, October 5th. Steven from Wine and Food Pairings  discusses Cioppino – Red orWhite Wine? Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm writes about The Food and ...

Earlier in the year, we had our themes for the group selected and October was slated as a focus on Abruzzo. I tracked down this bottle of 2013 Lunaria “Coste di Moro” Montepulciano d’Abruzzo before I knew that samples were available. Then I received three bottles - Citra Montepulciano d'Abruzzo DOP 2017, Caldora Montepulciano D'Abruzzo 2016, and Passerina IGP Terre di Chieti 2017 as samples - and my official post will be the pairing of  Scrippelle 'mbusse + Ferzo Passerina . But I still wanted to share a little bit about this  wine ahead of the actual chat. The first thing that struck me was that this is a DEMETER-certified wine. This year we've been exploring biodynamic wines in several of our wine blogging groups. DEMETER is an international certification for products produced using biodynamic farming methods. Biodynamic parameters are much more rigorous than straight organic farming. Having been formally defined in the early 20th century, biodynamic winegr...