Lover's Walk -- Cinque Terre, Italy

Touring & Tasting is in Cinque Terre--had a lovely glass of vino bianco frizzante locale: a slightly sparkling white wine made from the local grapes Vermentino, Bosco and Albarola. The grapes are grown on steep rugged hillsides that fan above the five little villages clinging to the rocky coast north of La Spezia. The rocky terraces have to be built and scaled without machinery, so the local wine tends to be expensive relative to other Italian wines (which are very inexpensive relative to other countries'. Cheers!