There will be time for a more in-depth analysis of the nearly 150 wines tasted during last week’s Benvenuto Brunello event, the appellation’s annual debut. For the moment, as promised, I would like to reveal the wines from the 2006 vintage that I liked the most — all of which were tasted rigorously blind. The [...]

When VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani posted news of Italy’s first DOCG for a rosé — the recently created Castel del Monte Bombino Nero DOCG — on his blog Vino al Vino last week, the story was met with a tide of skepticism and negative comments by Italian winemakers and observers of the Italian wine world. The [...]