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- Amy, a TV host, travels across the USA exploring local culinary gems: restaurants, speakeasies, wine bars. She interviews chefs, mixologists, and locals, showcasing each town's unique food culture.
- "Templars" is a TV series composed by 5 episodes. Episode 1 is "The Da Vinci Code Secrets", filmed in Rennes-Le-Château. Episode 2 "The Medici Mystery" is filmed in Tuscany. Episode 3 "The Sinclair Legacy" is filmed in Scotland, and England. Episode 4 "Gudrid the Fair" is filmed in Iceland and New England. Episodes 3 and 4 won several international film festivals in the category "Best TV Series". Episode 5 "The Sword and the Circle" is the Season 1 finale and it is filmed in South of France released on September 2023.
- "Aude (France) in a very small village (Rennes-Le-Chateau) a priest (Françoise-Bérenger Saunière) at the end of 1800 became inexplicable rich after he made a mysterious discover. Tania Martino, a young writer from Italy, wrote recently a book about it and she will lead the viewers of this film through multiple connections, legends and real facts. Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" novel and many other writers were inspired by the story of Rennes-Le-Chateau. The Templars and Cathars knights and even the Celts are strictly connected with this ancient place. For the first time this argument has been filmed also with aerial shots and it has a lot of of stunning views and new perspective, including places and subjects never been filmed with a drone.
- The Medici, the Templars,Leonardo Da Vinci, a great mystery in Tuscany, Florence, Vinci, Livorno, Pisa, Valle Benedetta (Benedict Valley). Beautiful scenes are in this new sequel film of its predecessor "Templars The Da Vinci Code Secrets"
- Amy (American actress) and Francesca (Italian journalist) have a gourmet and wines road trip showing things to each other. They try food, wines and aspects of their countries. It's a Reality Show TV series filmed in Texas and Tuscany.
- "San Pietro Island" is about the westernmost island of Italy, named after Saint Peter, located south west of Sardinia region in the Sulcis Iglesiente sub-region. This is the first American documentary ever made about this remote beautiful island in the Mediterranean Sea. "Carloforte" is the only town populated by dual language fishermen. The 6,000 inhabitants speak Italian and "Tabarchino" an ancient unique dialect of the Ligurian language. Called also the "Island of Sparrow Hawks" or "Enosim", for the ancient Phoenicians, because it has always been a migration and reproduction place for the "Queen's Hawk" (Eleonora's Falcon is one of the rarest). Paolo Emilio Centoni will narrate about this yet unknown and preserved place. A perfect example of how Italy used to be in the past decades.
- "Wine Passport" TV Series, the first wine web series produced in Italy that shows the world of Italian wine to the international market, entirely filmed in English language, by Saturday July 18 is on Amazon Prime Video USA and UK. Millions subscribers will be able to watch for free the episodes of Season 1. The creator, presenter and producer of this television format is the Italian journalist Francesca Negri, WSET and former Wine Tutor for "Detto Fatto" on Rai2 (Italian National TV channel). Unconventional, glamorous and seductive wine expert, Francesca brings her joie de vivre, her experience, her style to a new way of communicating the wine's world. With her you can find out the hidden treasures of the most important Italian and world wineries. In each episode Francesca accompanies a foreign guest to discover an Italian wine territory, its traditions, its most typical products and other particularities, a true wine adventure that has the format of the most current and successful television programs; rhythm relentless, motion and emotional style interspersed with confessionals (both by the foreign guest and Francesca or other protagonists), fun and captivating moments, seasoned by a pinch of fashion and a bit of glamor to let the spectators savor the taste of the Italian lifestyle which the whole world dreams about and looking even for the "made in Italy" products. To distribute "Wine Passport" on Amazon Prime Video USA and UK platforms is Web Icon Inc., an American company based in Orlando, Florida, specialized in the production and distribution of docu-films and series on the web TV. Prominent productions made in 2020 are "Templars The Da Vinci Code Secrets" first chapter of the "Templars" saga which has already reached over 2,520,000 shares along the first six months of programming, by January 17th, on Prime Video USA and UK. «Francesca Negri is the first Italian wine expert journalist to lead, in English, a TV program in the USA and UK on Prime Video platform. Besides the novelty is about the fact that the she tells the stories on wine, food, traditions and its culture, completely out of the stereotypes and obsolete clichés about Italy. In addition, the "bubbly presentation" by Francesca Negri is captivating to the Anglo-Saxon female world, whose listening trend is very attentive to such new products as is "Wine Passport" », says the CEO of Web Icon Inc . The current offer of the main TV productions dealing with wine on Prime Video USA, can be counted on the fingers of one hand and are all lead by Americans, English and sometimes Spanish or French characters. Wine Passport is a great journey with Francesca Negri, who is a kind of Virgil in a miniskirt. In each episode Francesca makes the dream of a foreign tourist come true. It's all about touching the culture of the Bel Paese with her hands, visiting vineyards, ancient cellars, browsing through festivals and village festivals and going to know the famous producers of the most important Italian wineries . Wine Passport is already working on the Season 2, which will be again on Amazon Prime Video USA and UK, meanwhile the possibility to be on Amazon Prime Germany and Japan is also being evaluated.
- Gretchen Cornwall explains how the Sinclair family had an important part in the Templars history including their travels to North America with the Venetians Zeno brothers.The Sinclair legacy is also linked to their Viking ancestors.
- Venetians Zeno brothers,sailed from Scotland to North America in 1383.But in 1021 a Viking Icelandic woman Gudrid (Amy Erin Johnson) went and settled to Newfoundland (with Freydis Erikdóttir),she had a son there and later met even the Pope
- A magnificent land, a traditional high level method, Franciacorta is a world to discover. Guest of this episode of Wine Passport is Gegè, a French enologist married to a Florentine silversmith. With her, Francesca visits two of the most emblematic and famous cellars of Franciacorta: Barone Pizzini and Ca 'del Bosco. But this are just two ingredients of this engaging episode...the chef is waiting.
- In a late afternoon of April 1320, in a magnificent castle near Verona, Federico della Scala, Count of Valpolicella, proceeded to invest the first Knights of Recioto. This Order has come down to the present day and we will discover it together with Francesca and her guest, Xin, with whom she will also visit the cult winery where Amarone della Valpolicella was born, Bertani. Founded in 1857 by brothers it is a sacred name for all fans of the red Valpolicella and Valpantena. Bertani produced the legendary bottle of Recioto della Valpolicella Acinatico 1928 of which there are yet very few bottles. The story of Acinatico nearly myth. In 1928, following an exceptional quality harvest, Bertani brothers elected the best grapes grown in Valpolicella and Valpantena and vinified after prolonged drying. The wine was aged for more than ten years in large wooden barrels and then hidden, covering every single bottle of wax to ensure further protection, during World War II. Found in 1984 in perfect condition, it has become the historical heritage of the company and of the Italian oenology. After more than eighty years Acinatico is still one of the best wines in the world, sold at auction by Christie's at around 2,200 dollars per bottle.
- Truflles hunting with Urbani Tartufi, olive harvest and tasting lesson with Monini, wine safari with Roccafiore and more in this new episode of Wine Passport, with Francesca and his guest, the sommelier Eugene, from Ukraine. Umbria is a land full of extraordinary treasures. Among these there is olive oil and Monini, which in 2020 turned 100 is a great producer that focuses on quality and sustainability. Among the olive trees of one of the estates of Monini, Frantoio del Poggiolo, Eugene and Francesca will compete in the olive harvest and then learn how to recognize a good oil from a bad oil. Then, thanks to Urbani Tartufi, they will experience the thrill of hunting for precious tubers and then they will go to relax in Roccafiore, cellars and wine resorts of Todi, where between a massage and a dip in the pool, they will also do a safari in the middle of the vineyards. hunting pigs that live in the wild on the farm.
- In this new episode Francesca is in Soave, Veneto, with Steve a photographer and model who contacted Francesca to better understand how to capture the soul of wine in his pictures. Their wine adventure will spread between a Medieval Festival, wine tastings, wineries and a restaurant where "to put their hands in pasta" and also the curious practice to play wine bottles. Soave DOC, Soave Classic DOC, Soave Superior DOCG, Soave Spumante DOC. A wine, four declinations, or even five if you want to consider the sweet version of the Recioto di Soave DOCG. Soave has many shades, it is the most long-lived white in Italy (it can age up to 20 years) and the most exported to the world, certainly one of the most modern - in its historicity - for its remarkable value for money and a mineral style but also pleasantly fruity, fully, in line with the taste of today's consumers. The Soave hills have been recognized as the first "rural landscape of historical interest" in Italy, inserting them into the "National Register of Rural Landscapes of Historical Interest, Farming Practices and Traditional Knowledge". In this landscape is located Rocca Sveva, a beautiful hamlet owned by Cantina di Soave, the largest production area in the area and one of the largest Italian wine cellars. As usual, Francesca and Steve will go to a renowned restaurant in the area to create the perfect recipe combined with the bubbles of the 18th Century 33. Called to respond to this task is the Hosteria del Durello with the good and cheerful chef Claudio Burato.
- In a late afternoon of April 1320, in a magnificent castle close to Verona, Federico della Scala, Count of Valpolicella, proceeded to invest the first Knights of Recioto. This Order has come down to the present day and we will discover it together with Francesca and her guest, Xin, with whom we will also visit the cult winery where Amarone della Valpolicella was born, Bertani. Bertani production is known worldwide for its uniqueness, consistency and coherence of recognition in the style of its products. Founded in 1857 by brothers Bertani, Bertani is a sacred name for all fans of the red Valpolicella and Valpantena: the winery has a unique collection of bottles of historic vintages from 1959 to the present, all affordable. Bertani produced the legendary bottle of Recioto della Valpolicella Acinatico 1928 too, of which there are (subkey) yet very few bottles. The story of Acinatico nearly myth. In 1928, following an exceptional quality harvest, Bertani brothers elected the best grapes grown in Valpolicella and Valpantena and vinified after prolonged drying. The wine was aged for more than ten years in large wooden barrels and then hidden, covering every single bottle of wax to ensure further protection, during World War II. Found in 1984 in perfect condition, it has become the historical heritage of the company and of the Italian oenology. After more than eighty years Acinatico is still one of the best wines in the world, sold at auction by Christie's at around 2,000 euro per bottle.
- The Medici and the Templars legacy, a mysterious and unknown story in Tuscany, Florence, Vinci, Livorno, Pisa and more. As usual beautiful scenes are present in this new film chapter of the saga.
- It's a very unusual travel about the place and the story which partially inspired Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code".Rennes-le-Château one on the most mysterious village in the world.