Buon Giorno!
This month, we travel to Liguria, the third smallest of Italy's provinces of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. Liguria is a very small wine-producing region located in northwest Italy on the Ligurian Sea. It touches France's
Provence region on the west end and tuscany on the east. This area is on the Italian Riviera and includes well-known resort areas like Potofino and San Remo, as well as the port city of Genoa. Liguria has only about 12,000 vineyard acres, and its wine production is one of the smallest of the twenty Italian wine-producing regions. It contains the DOCs of
Cinqueterre, Colli di Luni, Colline di Levanto, Golfo del Tigullio, Riviera Ligure di Ponente, Rossese di Dolceacqua and Val Polcevera. It is the home of pesto, ciuppin, and great seafood.
This month we're sampling wines from the Val d'Aosta, Italy's smallest and most mountainous province. Once the crossroads of Europe - where Hannibal marched his elephants and where Napoleon's armies crossed on their way to victory at Marengo, today the Val d'Aosta is best known for world class skiing and hiking, and Fontina cheese. 
