Taste of Italy 2022 Archives

Dispatch from Houston by the legendary Darrell Corti, featured Taste of Italy speaker and “tastemaker” to a generation of Americans.

Leave a Comment / People, Taste of Italy 2022 / By Jeremy Parzen

Above, from left: Rick Mindermann (Darrell Corti’s assistant), Ed Revak (a Houston-based spirits distributor), Darrell Corti, and Jeremy Parzen (Taste of Italy co-organizer and emcee). Darrell Corti, says celebrated food writer Colman Andrews, co-founder of Saveur magazine, “is one of those people whose importance is far greater than the name recognition.” The quote comes from …

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Dream team for Chianti and Texas BBQ tasting, standing room only!

Leave a Comment / Featured Speaker, Taste of Italy 2022 / By Jeremy Parzen

It was standing room only on Monday at this year’s BBQ and Italian wine tasting and seminar at Taste of Italy, featuring celebrity pit master Ara Malekian of Harlem Road Texas BBQ. Chef Ara (above, second from right) was joined by a true “dream team” of panelists including Tom Dobson (left), the Italian wine buyer …

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Congratulations to the winners of the Villa Sandi Houston Sommelier Competition!

Leave a Comment / Featured Speaker, Sommelier Competition, Taste of Italy, Taste of Italy 2022 / By Jeremy Parzen

Congratulations to the winners of the Villa Sandi Houston Sommelier Competition! Above, center from left: Tony Elsinga (1st prize), Mark Fusco (2nd), and Carlos Rosas (3rd). Well done and well deserved! And thank you to everyone who competed! It was a great event. Candidates in the competition underwent a series of exams: Theory (arguably the …

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320 attendees, 45 Italian brands, 200+ products. Thank you for making Taste of Italy 2022 a spectacular success!

Leave a Comment / Featured Speaker, Sommelier Competition, Taste of Italy, Taste of Italy 2022 / By Jeremy Parzen

Click here for a Facebook album of photos from the fair. More than 320 attendees, 45 Italian brands, 200+ Italian wines and food products, 3 seminars presented by leading food and wine professionals, 1 sommelier competition. We thank everyone — exhibitors, presenters, sommeliers, and organizers — for a fantastic Taste of Italy 2022, now in …

320 attendees, 45 Italian brands, 200+ products. Thank you for making Taste of Italy 2022 a spectacular success! Read More »

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Dispatch from Houston by the legendary Darrell Corti, featured Taste of Italy speaker and “tastemaker” to a generation of Americans.

Dream team for Chianti and Texas BBQ tasting, standing room only!

Congratulations to the winners of the Villa Sandi Houston Sommelier Competition!

320 attendees, 45 Italian brands, 200+ products. Thank you for making Taste of Italy 2022 a spectacular success!

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