casa olivi

25.5.13

working on our wine cellar

Le champagne de casa olivi, Extra Brut, Metodo classico (méthode champenoise) from great vineyard UMANI RONCHI.

Chardonnay 50% - Verdicchio 50%

Perfect combination with fried zucchini blossoms...

24.5.13

slow wine in Le Marche

Coined “the New Tuscany”, the Marche Wine Region is one of Italy’s last untouched wine regions, and a must for gourmet travelers. Sandwiched between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic Sea, Le Marche was long kept from realizing its full potential as a wine-growing area by poverty and geography; even with the relative prosperity of recent decades and the improvements in communication lines, Le Marche is still off the beaten track. Tuscany and Umbria lie just to the west, but the charms of rural Marche - wines that are as easy on the palate as they are on the wallet, long stretches of pristine coast, and stunning medieval towns like Ascoli Piceno and Urbino - have remained largely undiscovered. Yet this area is as captivating as anything you'll find in Italy, and as Marche wines are finally begin making their mark on the wine world, the region is inching ever closer to the mainstream.

Top wines of the Marche include Moroder Rosso Cònero Dorico, Fattoria Le Terazze Rosso Cònero Sassi Neri, Lanari Rosso Cònero Fibbio, La Monascesca Verdicchio di Matelica, Bisci Verdicchio di Matelica Vigneto Fogliano, Sartarelli Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Tralivio and Umani Ronchi Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Casal di Serra, Bucci Verdicchio, La Distesa Verdicchio, Pievalta Verdicchio, and Fattoria San Lorenzo.

Excellent Marche Producers:

Umani Ronchi, Sartarelli, Moroder, Bucci, Le Terrazze, Bonci, Malacari, Velenosi, fosso dei ronchi...and much more!

23.3.13

22.3.13

Outstanding food in Le Marche

Il Risotto di Cianuscolo e Arancio con Farina d’Olio di Errico Recanati
www.restauranteandreina.it
Loreto, Le Marche, Italy

frescarelli di castagne, erbe aromatiche dell’orto e il suo cinghiale di Lucio Pompili
www.sympsium4stagioni.it
Cartoceto, Le Marche, Italy

La Tartare di Stefano Ciotti
www.tenutasantigiacomoefilippo.it
Urbino, Le Marche, Italy

Le costine con la torta di mele di Camerino di Michele Biagiola
www.ristorantelecase.it
Macerata, Le Marche, Italy

16.3.13

outdoor furniture

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GANDIA BLASCO

“A collection featuring sinuous, ergonomically

designed curves for maximum comfort. The

repetition of items such as the lounge chair and

table creates larger areas for more people. They can

be arranged in all kinds of diﬀ erent ways to make

outdoor seating areas for socialising, having a drink

or sunbathing.”

www.gandiablasco.com

1.3.13

Dolce Vita in Le Marche, "I delfini", 1960, with Claudia Cardinale.

I Delfini also known as The Dauphins and Silver Spoon Set (USA) is a 1960 Italian and French drama film directed and written by Francesco Maselli. The film stars Claudia Cardinale. Shot in Ascoli Piceno, Le Marche, Italy.

The idle lives of the rich or famous or both are depicted from an aloof and uninvolved perspective by director Francesco Maselli. Claudia Cardinale appears in one of her early screen roles as Fedora, a member of the elite and privileged in a provincial Italian town. The seedy underside of illicit affairs, quick flings, betrayals and deceptions, and other, similar pasttimes of the "in" circle slowly become apparent when a young outsider tries to gain acceptance into the exclusive group.

10.2.13

soon in Coté Sud, special food issue, around may-june 2013...

It has been such a great experience to welcome Andrea in casa olivi a few months ago. Fresh fish from the Adriatic sea, bio-vegetable from his farm, delicious panacotta, amazing dessert with bufala yogurt...
Reportage Laurence Dougier, pictures Nicolas matheus.

very, very soon the recipes in Coté Sud!