Posted on March 31st, 2008 by VinoWire
Montalcino producers are not suspected of using Apulian wine in the production of Brunello, said the Siena prosecutor’s office on Friday.
As the Brunellopoli or Brunellogate scandal continues to unfold, Siena prosecutor Nino Calabrese issued the following statement Friday to WineNews.it.
“I am abstemious,” said Calabrese. “I do not read newspapers. I prefer literature and I do [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by VinoWire
Italian wine connoisseur Charles Scicolone and his wife and Italian food authority Michele Scicolone recently invited me and a few others to their home for a truly remarkable tasting of a wine I had heard and read so much about but had never had the opportunity to enjoy: Fiorano Rosso, a wine produced by the [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by VinoWire
The question has been bothering me for some time now: what on earth do winemakers in Asti really mean when they call their wines superiore or superior? The official definition is wine “made from grapes with a natural minimum alcohol volume of 12% and released for consumption with a minimum alcohol of 12.5% after a [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by VinoWire
According to a report published today by the Florentine edition of Italy’s daily newspaper La Repubblica, winemakers Antinori, Argiano, and Frescobaldi have been implicated in Siena prosecutors’ investigation of fraudulent winemaking. The scandal has been dubbed Brunellopoli by the Italian press and blogosphere (a reference to the notorious Tangentopoli or bribesville political scandal of the [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by VinoWire
According to a report published today by the Italian daily La Repubblica, five Montalcino wineries are being investigated for adding “Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, [and/or] Petit Verdot” to their Brunello (appellation regulations require that Brunello be made from 100% Sangiovese grapes). The article erroneously attributes the initial reporting of the investigation to wine writer James Sucking’s [...]
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Posted on March 27th, 2008 by VinoWire
The website WineNews.it published the following statement yesterday, attributed to the website of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (translation by VinoWire). The editors of VinoWire have not been able to find the statement on the Consortium’s website. The editorial offices of WineNews.it are located in Montalcino and its contributors frequently report coverage of [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2008 by VinoWire
In the wake of widespread rumors that Italy’s Treasury Department is poised to indict scores of Brunello producers on charges of fraud, VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani spoke with director of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, Stefano Campatelli, who has confirmed that “irregularities” have been found in wines labeled as Brunello produced by at [...]
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Posted on March 24th, 2008 by VinoWire
Wine blogger and Wine & Spirits Senior Editor Wolfgang Weber reports that Italy’s 2008 Critical Wine fair has been canceled. The fringe fair was to be held in Verona beginning April 3, 2008, to coincide with the Italian mainstream wine and spirits trade fair, Vinitaly (April 3 – 7).
According to Weber, who cites an [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by VinoWire
According to a report published Wednesday by WineNews.it, the term Brunello was trademarked in the U.S. by the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino in 1994.
“The Brunello trademark,” says Brunello Consortium president Stefano Campatelli, “has been registered in the U.S.A. since 1994 and the name Brunello is a denomination allowed by the European Union [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by VinoWire
According to a press release issued yesterday by Petroni Vineyards (Sonoma, CA), the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (Brunello di Montalcino Consortium) has asked winemaker Lorenzo Petroni to stop labeling his wine as “Brunello.”
“The name Brunello refers to the grape and not the place where it is produced,” writes Petroni in the release.
When [...]
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