~ Enrico & Elisa Scavino ~ It’s one word, Monvigliero.  To know it, is to know elegance and absolute feminine grace. This is not to say that there’s no power here; for like the cutlass in modern warfare, this wine…

      ….Welcome to the New Year!    I’ve loved Summus for a long time and I’ve enjoyed so many of them that I’ve come to realize that I appreciate the wine more when it’s got considerable age on it. …

 ~ Castello Poggio Alle Mura ~   Recently I’ve been tasting through some wines from the much ballyhooed 2010 vintage.  Many producers I’ve spoken to have praised 2010 as the best vintage of the decade. Almost everything went right…

~ Sloping Vineyards in Barbaresco ~ In “Italian wine circles”, and you can conjur up an image of a definition for that term, there is one discussion that is certain to raise the hackles of the “purists” and that is…