Posted on February 28th, 2008 by VinoWire
The Consorzio del Vino Chianti Classico Gallo Nero has announced a new SMS text messenging program that will allow users to access information on Chianti Classico bottled since the 2004 vintage. By sending a serial number on the bottle’s strip label to 366-3333603, users will instantly receive data on the wine. Italian users will receive [...]
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Posted on February 26th, 2008 by VinoWire
Errata corrige: VinoWire erroneously reported that Mark Fornatale was the author of the post below on Borgogno. The author of the post, Ralph Michels, later revealed that he had been misinformed. See Fornatale’s comment below.
Despite claims made in a recent posting on the Antonio Galloni chat room (Mark Squires Bulletin Board on eRobertParker.com), new owner [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by VinoWire
The 2008 vintage will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Masi’s first single-vineyard Amarone, Campolongo di Torbe, believed by many to be the appellation’s first “cru.” Sixth-generation owner of the Masi winery, Dr. Sandro Boscaini (left, at a lecture for American wine writers) held a series of events in New York last week to commemorate the [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by VinoWire
Enologists Carlo Ferrini, Riccardo Cotarella, and wine writer Ernesto Gentili will represent Italy at the first-ever WineCreator Symposium, to be held in Ronda, Spain, April 18-19.
The gathering will host 12 of the world’s top enologists and leading wine journalists, including English-language writers Jancis Robinson, Stephen Tanzer, and Joshua Greene. The theme of the symposium’s [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by VinoWire
On March 7 and 8, 2008, Vigna (a joint Italian-French research team) will present much-anticipated results of its grapevine genome-sequencing project in Udine (Friuli), at the Auditorium della Regione Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The first day of the English-language conference will be devoted the scientific results of the historic project, while the second day will be devoted [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by VinoWire
Italian winemakers across the country are preparing to meet new “stream-lined” standards for DOC certification to be implemented this summer. Less rigid sample protocols and a new DOC certification “strip label” are among the most controversial elements in new legislation. VinoWire’s Franco Ziliani recently spoke to Barolo-producer Teobaldo Cappellano (above left), winemaker and owner of [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by VinoWire
In the January-February issue of De Vinis (the official publication of the Association of Italian Sommeliers), ex-president of the Italian Appellation Commission Ezio Rivella proposes looser appellation laws to help Italian wines compete on the international market.
“The appellation shouldn’t have anything to do with the grape varieties nor should it specify the percentages of [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2008 by VinoWire
On Monday, February 11, 2008, I attended a tasting of tasted 27 Francicacorta DOCGs, ranging in vintage from 1999 to 2004, hosted by The World of Fine Wines. Among the sparkling-wine and Champagne experts on hand for the event, tasters included the illustrious Margaret Rand and Tom Stevenson. VinoWire is a points-free zone but the [...]
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Posted on February 15th, 2008 by VinoWire
The most recent survey conducted by Istat (the Italian National Institute of Statistics) reports that from 2000 to 2006, the number of hectares under vine in Italy have dropped by 13,552 (2% of the national total), from 692,420 to 678.868.
In other words, the Italian vine had lost a surface area equivalent to the region of [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2008 by VinoWire
VinoWire was conceived by Franco Ziliani and Jeremy Parzen to provide a “wire service” feed of current news and events from the world of Italian wine. While North American and British food and wine editors have historically devoted much of their attention to Italian wine and food, relatively little information reaches the English-speaking world directly [...]
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