On the history of beer and where to find the best in town. A ridiculously hot summer just made its triumphal entry, especially in the Northern regions of Italy. Many of us are not on holiday yet and, from Milan to Venice, we sweat, we pant, we struggle performing easy tasks, we constantly complain about this crazy weather and, above all, WE DRINK. If red wine is not recommended when the heat gets torrid, besides icy white wines and cocktails, we could definitely say that beer

Lying on the spurs of a hill range, right in the heart of a Collio natural reserve, Roncada estate used to be owned by Austrian princes. Madi Cattaruzzi, the young woman who nowadays runs the winery business, describes the place as a green island surrounded by woods, fruit trees and grain cultivations. In other words, a pristine paradise where, along with other colleagues - women and young as much as she is - Madi continues the work her grandfather started when he bought the

Graceful and flexible as a leaf of grass, light and evanescent as a floating bubble (he loves this similarity!), Gualtiero Salbego set foot in Venice, for the first time ever, in 1998, and since then he never left. At that time he was 26, and probably too shy to imagine his brilliant future as one of the finest artists in town. Born and raised in a small village of Veneto countryside, Gualtiero lived in a family that considered job as a primary source and sent him to work rig

Much More than an Antique Bookstore When I first scheduled an appointment at Lineadacqua antique bookstore, I was expecting to face an austere, donnish, old bookworm hidden behind piles of untouchable tomes. Surprisingly enough, I was warmly greeted by a young man, whose elegant bookstore doesn’t boast only a vast collection of precious volumes, but also displays a number of ancient and modern artworks, such as stunning paintings, refined sculptures, literary journals and nic