Checking In: Carbonaione
Put the corkscrew down and step away from the bottle. I’m warning you, and we’ll see if I heed my own advice, but this is tight as nails right now and I should have read this before I checked in…
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Put the corkscrew down and step away from the bottle. I’m warning you, and we’ll see if I heed my own advice, but this is tight as nails right now and I should have read this before I checked in…
Continue reading~ Alessandro Francois in his personal cellar ~ Variability can be a curse. The 2009 vintage in Chianti Classico has yielded some lovely wines and some under performing wines. The variable vintage was too hot in some areas and the…
Continue reading~ Vineyards in Val di Pesa ~ Castelli del GrevePesa is a tightly knit coop of wine growers in northern Chianti Classico who came together with the aim of preserving the classic sense of the traditional Tuscan viticulture. Founded in…
Continue reading~ Bottles stacked and aging in Viticcio’s Cantina ~ “The farmer ploughed the land and the soil started beating with his heart.” Fattoria Viticcio lies in Greve in Chianti – an estate and working farm that extends for 60 hectares…
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