No famous names, only small growers and bottles with a story. Meet the sommelier behind it.
By Elena Rossi
Her list has no famous labels. Not one. Only small growers, many of them farming fewer than five hectares, some making a few hundred bottles a year.
"Anyone can sell a great name," she says. "My job is to make you love a wine you have never heard of." She succeeds, every night, one table at a time.
Ask her for something surprising and she will disappear into the cellar for a long time. It is always worth the wait.
Why dinners for twenty are coming back to country houses and city apartments alike.
Twelve covers, a menu that changes every night and no interest whatsoever in guides.
A chef cooks the same dish all year long, and lets the seasons rewrite it.
One long read, three rare addresses and an image no one has seen yet.
