Valentine’s day is near and you don’t know what you can buy for your foodie lover: oh my!

Here are 10 (foodies) suggestions:

1. A wonderful artisan foodie gift from Foodzie.
2. Chocolate from the chocolate masters of the world: Valrhona o Richart.
3. An awesome, incredible, unforgettable dessert by Pierre Hermé.
4. One of the most beautiful, strudy and elegant pan in the world, by Le Creuset.
5. 2 identical special bottles of wine, like a well aged Barolo, or a Bourgogne or a Cahors.
6. A selection of special and rare teas, from Adagio, Revolution Tea, Whittard of Chelsea, or Teaposy.
7. A 2 years subscription to the best cooking and style magazine in the world: Donna Hay Magazine.
8. A bottle of Champagne or Franciacorta (Italian Champagne, as good as the French), already chilled, to drink right away.
9. Something silly, like the “love toaster” or the cupcakes lip balms.
10. A trip off the beaten track in countryside France, lodging in a wonderful castle, like Chateau Clement a Vals les Bains, in Ardeche: nature, spa and one of the owner is a chef!

Bonus: a voucher for a luxury spa or hamman: everybody would love that!

Ah, la vendange!

This year we had the wonderful possibility to participate to a photo vendange (thanks Marco!) with other Flickr people in Oltrepò Pavese.

Oltrepò Pavese is a part of Lombardy, just south of the Po (“oltre” means beyond), lavishly filled with castles, hills, and, of course, grapes!

We had the opportunity to visit Tenuta il Bosco and its extensive grapes fields. The actual harvest tooked place 2 days before we went there, but it was quite inspiring and fascinating even without the grapes…

Few where still there

And of course, after the tour, well, we drank

Have you ever been in Oltrepò Pavese? Tell us everything about it!

Of course, having a husband sommelier, we couldn’t, by any possible mean, skip the French wine cellars! Those in the picture is just a little taste of the many we visited… And the many bottle we tasted and bought!