According to a report published today on the blog Italia a Tavola, the Verona-based wine behemoth Gruppo Italiano Vini will take control of the Cavicchioli winery group in Modena on January 1, 2011. The agreement, said Sandro Cavicchioli, president of Cavicchioli group, is intended to preserve “continuity” and to further “develop the historic brand and [...]
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Source: Vino al Vino. Translation by VinoWire. The other evening, as we wait for the true cold to arrive so that I can spend a long evening with a bottle of Bartolo’s Barolo (excuse me! I mean Maria Teresa’s Barolo!), I hazarded a not-so-perfect pairing with an excellent pasta e fagioli prepared by my wife [...]
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According to a report published Friday, October 1 by the Florence edition of the Italian national daily La Repubblica, a Siena judge has sentenced the current director of the Brunello producers association, Stefano Campatelli, to 16 months of detention and ex-president of the association, Filippo Fanti, was sentenced to 12 months for falsifying public documents. [...]
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