Northern Italian Lake Country
With just a few days left in our yearly autumn journey, we decided to travel farther north to the Italian lake country area. We stayed on Lake Maggiore, which is the second largest lake in Italy, after Lake Garda. Lake Maggiore is partly in Italy and partly in Switzerland. After being socked in the first day, the next day brought high clouds and by noon, the sun was out and it was beautiful. We decided to take a long drive along the coastline. We made our way to the small to
John Zuchero
Nov 64 min read
“The Quest for the Holy Barolo - Finale
The last few days in the Barolo region ends with four wineries that have been identified as having wines with the characteristics John is searching for: minerality, flintiness, tar, and graphite. Those may sound strange, but that’s his “quest”. What is stranger was how he identified the next four wineries. He used ChatGPT, the AI tool that’s all the buzz in the last few months. John has been having a running dialogue with “Chatty” and it identified three of the four wineries
John Zuchero
Oct 297 min read
“The Quest for the Holy Barolo” - Part 2
PSA : to all of the readers who think John writes this blog solo, you must know that John writes the first draft and then Nancy edits and embellishes it. And by embellish, we mean, adds the personal flavor to John’s, “just the facts, ma’am” approach, as in Joe Friday in “Dragnet.” So don’t just praise (or pan) John, Nancy is responsible too. Enough said. 😊 Monday was an open day—no wineries scheduled. So, we did laundry, went grocery shopping, and just chilled. We both alre
John Zuchero
Oct 2611 min read
