Beat the Wintry Blues: Meet Sciaccarellu, Niellucciu, Carcaghjolu Neru, and Minustellu from Corsica!

Meet Sciaccarellu, Niellucciu, Carcaghjolu Neru, and Minustellu from Corsica!

If you’re looking for something new and exciting to liven up your wintry days, or maybe looking for something a bit romantically French just in time for Valentine’s, how about a new to you French grape or region? Honestly, it’s been a miserable January here in Southern California with fog and fires and wind and power outages, and now it’s drizzly with major storms on the horizon. So we’re ready to travel –by glass anyway –to Corsica, a French island in the Mediterranean Sea that offers unusual wines made by uncommon grapes like Sciaccarellu, Niellucciu, Carcaghjolu Neru, and Minustellu.  Continue reading