Photo via Il Journal. He was allergic to any form of rhetoric and he was truly un-Italian in his respect: Italian journalist, partisan, and essayist Giorgio Bocca, 91 years old, died in Milan on Sunday. He deserves to be remembered with a dry eye and not without a touch of irony. For this reason, I’ve [...]
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When my fifty-fifth birthday arrived this year, I didn’t reach for a powerful red, nor an elegant Champagne, nor a juicy Franciacorta. No, I drank a stunning rosé on my birthday, perhaps the most important and most celebrated of all the Italian rosés (and probably the most expensive, since more than one online wine store [...]
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Alfonso Cevola has posted an updated list of current DOCGs on his blog here. Some very instructive news has come to my attention via the website Cronache di Gusto by Fabrizio Carrera who writes from Palermo. As you can read here in a press release posted on the ministry’s website, I have discovered that Italy’s [...]
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According to initial reports from Montalcino, members of the Brunello producers association have voted not to change their appellation to allow grapes other than Sangiovese in Rosso di Montalcino.
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“Three years ago I was in favor of the addition of softening wines or grapes to Sangiovese for Rosso di Montalcino,” said Biondi Santi in a phone interview today with VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani, who quotes the signore del Brunello on his blog Vino al Vino. “Today, things have changed and my position is no [...]
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Source: Drinks Media Wire. NAPA, Calif. – Folio Fine Wine Partners, a Michael Mondavi family-owned company that represents specially selected wines from the great winegrowing regions of the world, announced today that it will be the new United States importer for the critically acclaimed Italian wine producer, Bruno Giacosa, effective January 1, 2012. “We are [...]
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The editors of VinoWire have obtained a copy of Mastrojanni owner Francesco Illy’s letter to the president and council of the Brunello producers association. Translation by VinoWire. Dear Mr. President and Council Members, On August 21, a heat storm [spike] with strong winds and temperatures reaching 41° C. [106° F] struck Montalcino. Grapes that were [...]
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VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani has obtained documentation of proposed modifications of the Rosso di Montalcino appellation (see below). The “hypothesis for three typologies [categories] of Rosso di Montalcino” will be discussed in an assembly to be held September 7. The categories are as follows: 1) Rosso di Montalcino Sangiovese Superiore: 100% Sangiovese (with a 1% [...]
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“The wave of heat coming from Africa that struck Italy has also arrived in Montalcino,” write the winemakers at Tenuta Il Poggione in Montalcino. “We are having temperature highs of 37° C. (99° F.) but fortunately, after sundown, the temperatures descend and we have lows of 17-20° C. (63-68° F.). And this is good for [...]
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Today on his blog Vino al Vino, VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani sadly reports that the owner of the Podere La Gerla in Montalcino, Sergio Rossi, died over the weekend. Born in Bergamo, Rossi enjoyed a successful career in advertising before buying the winery in 1976. “I had the opportunity to meet Rossi,” wrote Franco on [...]
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