Wine Dogs Italy

Name: Wine Dogs Italy - Wine Dogs
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Bi-lingual: The book contains articles and information in both English and Italian.

Wherever wine is made, you’re likely to find a dog wandering the cellar or vineyard. Wine Dogs Italy features over 135 wineries across Italy, and over 200 stunning photos of their loyal pooches. Along the way, the mutts and purebreds are interspersed with short essays by Daniele Cernilli, Lodovico Antinori, Ferruccio Ferragamo, Tiziana Frescobaldi and many more.

Find out which dog can outrun Jarno Trulli, who holds the pizza-eating record and discover Italy’s most fashionable Wine Dog.

Wine Dogs Italy is a photographic journal of stunning pictures and great stories – created all for the love of dogs and wines.

Pre-packed with two postcards and a Wine Dogs bookmark.

Hardcover276 pages

Size8.4 x 6 x 1.1 inches (216 x 154 x 23mm)

ISBN978-1921336119

PublisherGiant Dog P/L

First EditionOctober 2008

$35.00

“I saw the Wine Dogs book in New Zealand and thought what a brilliant idea – why don’t they do this in Italy? And now they have!” ~ Lodovico Antinori

ABRUZZO

Castorani

CAMPANIA

Terre del Principe Villa Matilde

EMILIA ROMAGNA

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA

LAZIO

Sergio Mottura

LIGURIA

Terre Bianche

LOMBARDIA

LODOVICO ANTINORI

Marchese Lodovico Antinori is from Florentine wine nobility and his family has been in the wine trade since the 14th century.

FEDERICA ROSY BOFFA

Federica Rosy Boffa is an enthusiastic writer and dog lover and is also the 10-year-old daughter of Pio and Nicoletta Boffa, owners of the prestigious Pio Cesare label in Piemonte.

ZAR BROOKS

Elena Brooks has been a winemaker in McLaren Vale for a decade and is now making wine for her own winery, Dandelion Vineyards. Zar is her husband and typist who, on occasion, is allowed a taste, only of course, if he is a good boy.

DANIELE CERNILLI

Daniele Cernilli is a Chief Editor for Gambero Rosso Slow Food Edition and the author of many successful wine-related books, including The New Italy.

RICCARDO RICCI CURBASTRO

Riccardo Ricci Curbastro is President of Federdoc and owner of his self-titled estate in Franciacorta.

SUSAN ELLIOTT

Susan Elliott is co-owner and creative director of Giant Dog Publishing based in Sydney, Australia.

ROBERTO FELLUGA

Roberto Felluga, along with Alessandra Felluga, directs the family firm, Marco Felluga, and continues the great family tradition in the world of wine with both commitment and passion.

FERRUCCIO FERRAGAMO

Ferruccio Ferragamo is the CEO of the company that bears his family name. He is also the owner of the medieval hamlet in the hills of Tuscany, Il Borro – which he describes as the most beautiful place in
the world.

TIZIANA FRESCOBALDI

Tiziana Frescobaldi directs the family firm Marchesi de’ Frescobaldi. The family has cultivated vines and produced wine for six centuries and today produces over 10 million bottles annually.

GIULIO PARENTINI

Giulio Parentini is in charge of exports at Morisfarms – the Tuscan property where he and his father Adolfo concentrate on producing high-quality syrah.