Welcome, Friends and family our goal with this blog is to help you keep tabs on what we've been up to after moving to Italy in 2007, by sharing some of our experiences with you. We have many of our old favorite places yet we always seem to stumble into something really cool just when we think we've seen everything. Our goal is to share these new experiences, along with an occasional wine or travel tip.
Sincerely,
Robert and Leslie Alexander

2014 Hazelnut Harvest

19/08/14 Wine

First signs of the 2014 grape harvest is the hazelnut harvest
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Vaccuming up the nuts is a very dusty job
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Unloading the hopper on the harvest machine into a trailer pulled by a tractor

When full the nuts will either be sold in bulk for Nutella or processed in many different products from flour to roasted hazelnut snacks
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Hazelnut (1)

Hand vacuuming up nuts the machine can't reach

While the hazelnut harvest is in high gear these nebbiolo grapes are slowly ripening, Nebbiolo is the last red grape here to be harvested.