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Metodo classico Italian sparkling wine has become a very important category, with numerous excellent examples from Piedmont (Alta Langa), Trentino (Trento DOC) as well.
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Metodo classico Italian sparkling wine has become a very important category, with numerous excellent examples from Piedmont (Alta Langa), Trentino (Trento DOC) as well.
For 50 years, Maurizio Zanella has gone for extremist causes. The first time he flunked out of high school was at a posh Milan parochial school in 1969, when, Zanella remembers, “I joined the Communist revolution.” After that, Zanella’s father, a successful European logistics entrepreneur, placed him in public school. “There, everybody was a Communist, so I became a fascist,” Zanella says, a broad, infectious smile stretching across his face. “I was playing war. I wasn’t a real Communist or fascist. It was just an excuse to not go to school.” As Zanella flunked his second yea...