Sunday, December 7, 2014

Try This Wine Before It Disappears



The railway would remove nearly 750 acres of Verdicchio.
Looking Towards Lake Garda

Lugana Region Lake Garda Turbiana Vineyards

In other regions, this would be a serious issue but not devastating. In the case of Lugana, since they are so small and located in between a lake and a completely different region (Lombardy), they don’t have any space to move. The vineyards would be lost forever.


The new tracks will cover an area just a quarter of a mile away from the original tracks to accommodate a high-speed connection that was originally planned to run from Kiev to Lisbon when it was drafted in 1992. The project is truly impressive, having been created just 4 years after the Berlin Wall fell, but recently several countries, including Portugal, Spain and France, have backed out.

The consorzio of Lugana made an effort. They crunched the numbers and figured out that if the new train worked with the original rail line that the time cost might only be 4 minutes more. They created a petition and appealed to the president and now we wait to see what they decide.

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