Wine Reviews

The brother and sister team of Luca and Maurizia Rampolla are shepherding the proud Chianti Classico estate of Castello dei Rampolla back in time – but into the future!    Set among scrub forests, imposing trees, and meandering brooks,  the Castello…

~ Picturesque Tenimenti Alessandro in Cortona ~   In 1967, the d’Alessandro family relocated from Rome to Tuscany and purchased the Manzano farm near Cortona. At the time, the vineyards in and around Cortona produced grapes mostly destined to be…

~ Paolo di Marchi – The Master of Sangiovese ~  There’s gorgeous and then there’s drop dead gorgeous.  The gap between the two may not be imagined as a very large chasm, and although that might be true,  it takes a…

~ Cellars at Rocca di Castagnoli ~ If you look at the Rocca di Castagnoli website, it seems as though it’s an agriturismo before it’s a winery.  Maybe that’s part of the problem. There seems to be a lack of…

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”    Quite simply, the driving tenet behind the wines of Fontalpino and the force that propels the team of Gioia and Filippo Cresti.  Known throughout Italy, Gioia oversees…