Italian Wine Week is largest fair ever devoted to Italian wine outside Italy

Source FocusWine.it, translation by VinoWire. With the participation of more than 285 Italian companies, Italian Wine Week (New York, February 2-5, 2010) represents the most important event to feature Italian wine outside Italy’s orders. The conference includes a rich program and involves hundreds of American wine-industry professionals. Italian Wine Week activities have been organized by [...]

Giacosa speaks to Franco Ziliani on his controversial decision not to bottle 2006 (VINOWIRE EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW)

“The decision of one Langhe producer not to make a 2006 Barolo or Barbaresco shocked Piedmont — and the furore shows no sign of letting up. For this was not just any old producer, but one of the Langhe’s indisputable greats. Bruno Giacosa (above, photo by Decanter Magazine) announced last May that he would not [...]

Bruno Giacosa: no 2006 but what a 2005!

Recently, it occurred to me that over the last year, I’ve written quite a bit about Bruno Giacosa, the great winemaker and eponymous winery that the whole world — even James Suckling! — considers one of the indisputable benchmarks of Langa wines (the French critique Michel Bettane alone does not share this view). Indeed, I’ve [...]

Minutolo: the “other” white grape from Apulia makes new inroads

There’s good news for lovers of Apulian wine! In the land of trulli, taralli, the Castel del Monte, and orecchiette con le cime di rapa (orecchiette with broccoli raab), the field of Apulian white wines continues to grow Don’t get me wrong. Apulia will remain a fundamentally red (and rosé) region, where wines made using [...]