Posted on January 29th, 2009 by VinoWire
Reported by VinoWire contributor Susannah Gold, author of Avvinare. Photo by Alfonso Cevola. According to Brunello Producers and the President of the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino, Patrizio Cencioni (above, second from right), the 2004 vintage is “exceptional” and is expected to rival the famed 1995 and 1997 vintages. At a press conference in [...]
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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by VinoWire
From “Quantity or Quality?”, Franco Ziliani’s article on Amarone and Valpolicella in the current issue of Decanter. Back in the mid-1980s, even the most diehard optimist could never have imagined that less than 25 years later, Amarone della Valpolicella would have emerged as one of the trendiest wines on the Italian wine scene. Or that [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2009 by VinoWire
In a much-anticipated live blogging summit held Sunday, January 18, in the conference room at the Gaja estate in Barbaresco, winemaker (and producer of Brunello di Montalcino) Angelo Gaja met with a group of Italian wine bloggers to answer their questions about the recent and current “Brunello affair,” as it has come to be called [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2009 by VinoWire
Much has been written about Italian viticulture’s substantive growth in volume and international sales. See, for example, Alder Yarrow’s post American and Italian Wine: Movin’ on Up!, published late last month and a fascinating post published by Alfonso Cevola, Italian Wine 2008 — Report from Flyover Country, published yesterday and culled from data collected by [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2009 by VinoWire
The controversial director of Italy’s leading state-owned television broadcaster RAI Uno, Fabrizio del Noce, raised eyebrows on December 31, 2008, when he rang in the new year with a bottle of Dom Perignon on live television. (Click here for the YouTube video.) In an editorial entitled “Del Noce’s Toast is Hurtful to Italy,” published on [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2009 by VinoWire
The following essay was published in Italian Weds., January 7, 2009, at I numeri del vino. It has been translated here by the editors of VinoWire. What does the Brunello affair teach us? By Angelo Gaja Unlike France, Italy specifies the percentages of each authorized grape variety that can be employed in the production of [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by VinoWire
Alessandro Bindocci, author of Montalcino Report, has posted registration info for the upcoming Benvenuto Brunello tastings in San Francisco and New York. The San Francisco tasting on Thursday, January 22, will take place at Terra Gallery, 511 Harrison Street, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The New York tasting on Wednesday, January 28, will take [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2009 by VinoWire
Contributor Hervé Lalau is the Secretary General of the Fédération Internationale des Journalistes et Ecrivains du Vin. “Bordeaux wines are blend-wines. We wish to test new varietals to know if they can enhance the complexity of our wines.” Thus speaks Florian Reyne, from the Syndicat des Vins de Bordeaux (Bordeaux Wines Union). And the Syndicat [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by VinoWire
Deep yellow/light gold with a bouquet of golden apples, dried pear and subtle notes of melted butter and guava. Quite rich on the palate, this had healthy acidity and a long finish with a hint of cinnamon. There was just a trace of oxidation, but that wasn’t totally unexpected, as the wine came from a [...]
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