When VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani posted news of Italy’s first DOCG for a rosé — the recently created Castel del Monte Bombino Nero DOCG — on his blog Vino al Vino last week, the story was met with a tide of skepticism and negative comments by Italian winemakers and observers of the Italian wine world. The [...]
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Last month, the Regione Toscana (Tuscan Regional Authority) announced that, using EU subsidies, it will pay Chianti and Chianti Classico producers Euro 3,200 for every hectare of “green harvested” vines. I am well aware that, according to EU legislation, “green harvesting means the total destruction or removal of grape bunches while still in their immature [...]
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Raise your hand, please. Send up a signal. If you take seriously such an unserious thing as the “Italian Unity Bottle,” please show yourself. If you have the courage (and the gall) to show yourself with such an unseemly package (as in the photo above), please let your presence be known. [translator's note: please see [...]
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With all the dutiful respect due to this man, to his not so tender age, to his white hair, and to that Cheshire cat expression of his, am I allowed to dissent from the predictable hosanna and applause that will greet the news that the longtime Tuscan-based Piedmontese enologist Giacomo Tachis has been named the [...]
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Dear Organisers of the 2011 en primeur tastings of Chianti Classico, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino, We thank you for the invitation to participate in the tastings, from February 15 to 19, of the new releases of your wines. It is always a pleasure, for those of us who do not live [...]
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Chianti Classico producer Roberto Stucchi is one of Italy’s leading winemakers. I was at the assemblea [assembly]. There was little discussion about the IGT wines at the Anteprima [the annual debut of the new Chianti Classico vintage, held in Florence each year in February] at all. A few criticized it, but that’s it. The main [...]
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Reported via Vino al Vino by VinoWire editor Franco Ziliani. In an interview published on Friday at WineNews.it, Italy’s recently installed agricultural minister Giancarlo Galan told a journalist that there was no real crisis in the Italian wine industry. When asked whether or not the Italian government would “intervene,” he responded: I was the president [...]
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VinoWire co-founder and co-editor Franco Ziliani is the author of Italy’s most popular wine blog, Vino al Vino. The post below appeared originally in Italian in May. Ristorante da Felicin in Monforte d’Alba is one of my favorite restaurants, a place where I always feel at home (and maybe even better than at home) and [...]
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Blogger Wolfgang Weber is currently working on a number of entries on Italian wine to be included in the forthcoming wine encyclopedia, Opus Vino (DK, October, 2010). Nebbiolo Prima, the reconstituted annual anteprima event formerly known as the Alba Wines Exhibition, is easily one of the most engaging Italian wine tastings that I’ve attended. It’s [...]
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The following translation is an excerpt from Italian wine writer Alessandro Franceschini’s “Pillole di Barbera,” published earlier this week by LaVINIum.com. Translation by VinoWire. During the four days devoted to tastings blind and otherwise, the favorite sport of nearly everyone who attended Barbera Meeting — journalists, bloggers, and buyers — was that of mercilessly searching [...]
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