Posted on May 29th, 2008 by VinoWire
Istat, Italy’s National Institute of Statistics, has reported a 14.3% drop in wine production for 2007 with respect to 2006. The country produced 42.6 million hectoliters in 2007, less than it did in 2002 (44.6 million hectoliters) and 2003 (44.1 million hectoliters). While northern Italy showed an insignificant decrease in production for 2007, central Italy’s [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by VinoWire
Friday and Saturday, May 30-31, the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (Cuneo, Piedmont) will host a conference entitled Wine and Philosophy. The meeting brings together top winemakers, wine writers, and scholars, including Professors Ann Noble (Viticulture and Oenology, University of California Davis, USA), Massimo Montanari (Food History, University of Bologna, Italy), and Steven Shapin [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by VinoWire
The editors of VinoWire encourage you to read the below petition authored by the Siena Enoclub (translated here by VinoWire). Click here to sign the petition. –Franco Ziliani and Jeremy Parzen To: the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (Brunello producers association) PETITION FOR AUTHENTIC AND TRADITIONAL BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO As a group of wine [...]
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Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by VinoWire
Italy’s newly installed minister of agriculture, Luca Zaia (left), announced yesterday that the U.S. TTB (Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) has agreed to postpone its June 9 deadline for a response to its official request for information regarding the Siena prosecutor’s investigation of Brunello producers. The new deadline has been set for June 23. [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by VinoWire
A delegation of high-ranking members of the United States TTB (Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau) “will be in Rome June 8 for talks with officials at the [Italian] agriculture ministry, and in Siena on the 10th for meetings with the consortium of Brunello producers,” said Fabio Carlesi, director of the Enoteca italiana di Siena [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by VinoWire
One of my most memorable spring 2008 tastings — a truly extraordinary experience — was a vertical dinner at Mozza in Los Angeles hosted by winemaker Mauro Mascarello of the Giuseppe Mascarello winery (Langa, Piedmont), where he poured bottlings spanning back to 1958. I’ve had the opportunity to taste older Giuseppe Mascarello before but never [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by VinoWire
Italy’s Comitato Nazionale per la Tutela dei Vini (National Committee for the Protection of Wines) has approved Latium’s first DOCG or Denominazione d’Origine Controllata e Garantita (Appellation of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin): Cesanese del Piglio and Cesanese del Piglio Superiore, and a Cesanese del Piglio Superiore Riserva (Reserve), which requires 18 months aging before release. [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by VinoWire
Following yesterday’s Plenary Session of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, the association’s public relations agency Barabino & Partners issued a press release with a summary of the meeting. VinoWire has translated the following excerpts. “The assembly of the 256 producers [of Brunello di Montalcino] has adopted [the following] important decisions: complete confirmation of [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by VinoWire
The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (known colloquially as the TTB) has threatened to block U.S. imports of Brunello di Montalcino if producers do not submit analysis of their wines by June 9, 2008. According to WineNews.it, a website based in Montalcino and closely associated with the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2008 by VinoWire
The Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (Brunello producers association) will hold a “plenary session” on Wednesday, May 14. (The meeting had originally been scheduled for May 30.) The Consortium not announced the meeting’s agenda. But VinoWire sources have hinted that the main topic of discussion will be a proposal for changes in appellation regulations.
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