Wine Tours Rome - Red Wine for the Festive Season

During our Rome Wine Tours, many of our recent guests have been asking about the ideal wine for the festive season. In my opinion, it should be oak-aged red wine with at least 14% alcohol content and dark ruby in colour. To me, this describes 'Morrone'. This wine is made of 100% Syrah and is produced in small quantities here in the Sabine Hills near Rome by the boutique vineyard we visit during our Rome winery tour. 
Morrone is red wine with strong personality, extremely aromatic and quite spicy, with notes of berries, chocolate and a little vanilla. In order to be called Morrone, this very traditional Central Italian wine has to be aged for 18 months in small oak barrels, then at least 6 months in the bottle. So, it will have to be Morrone...
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Rome cooking classes outdoors: woodfired sourdough bread

Sourdough is the ancient technique to make bread. At Convivio Rome Cooking Classes we use sourdough culture that's 30 years old and special stone-ground flour from a 300 year old local mill to make beautiful bread. Yesterday afternoon, we went to a friend's place in the countryside to experiment with their outdoor wood-fired oven and baked 4 delicious loaves of walnut bread!