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“A great wine is made from three great elements: territory, grapes and people. It is everyone’s moral imperative to treat their territory with as much respect and love as possible. The hills of the Langhe represent an ecosystem that must…
Continue reading“Bruno Giacosa is a perfectionist which is obviously visible from the meticulousness with which he approaches his craft. This is the story of his wines.” There are some figures within the Italian wine industry that are worthy of the terms…
Continue reading~ Giuseppe Mascarello ~ Monprivato. To lovers of Italian wine, there is nothing more to say once you’ve uttered the word. It means so many things. Pride, devotion, tradition, heritage and the utmost pinnacle of quality. Since the late 1800’s…
Continue readingLast month I was fortunate to cover the annual Vias Portfolio tasting in New York. I was permitted to arrive 30 minutes earlier than the general public and was able to visit with several producers before it got crowded. Overall, …
Continue readingThe name Conterno Fantino reflects a unique merger of two close knit families. Although the roots of the Conterno Fantino estate go back centuries, it wasn’t until 1982 that friends Guido Fantino and Claudio Conterno began making and bottling their…
Continue reading“For each wine produced, depending on the vintage, the right path is chosen without blindly following tradition and without passively following every innovation. He does not love excess.” Such is the way of Enrico Scavino who helms the estate his…
Continue reading“I’m an old wine-grower with two daughters and three wonderful grandchildren, I’ve just reached my 80s but I’m still lively and lucid. I recite the classics, I read Shakespeare, Manzoni, Pavese and Fenoglio.” ………Giacomo Oddero Just hearing things like that…
Continue reading~ Damilano Vineyards ~ It began in 1890, when Giuseppe Borgogno left his family wine business and began vinifying his own estate wines. That passion transcended the years until the founder’s son in law, Giacomo Damilano took the reins of the…
Continue reading~ Cantina Paitin ~ If you ask an Italian wine lover to name some of Italy’s most significant red wines you will undoubtedly hear the words Barolo and Brunello; and with good reason. However, there is an elegant lady who…
Continue reading~ Large Slavonian Botte in the cellars at Castello Banfi ~ Wood. Perhaps more precisely, oak. Never before has something so integral, so critical and so complimentary to the production of fine wine been simultaneously vilified, criticized and even hated…
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