Retro Tolaini
~ The Tolaini Estate as seen from the Copse of Trees – below ~ I’ve been very fortunate and thankful to cover the beautiful Tolaini Estate extensively on these pages. Along with many others it’s one of the estates I…
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~ The Tolaini Estate as seen from the Copse of Trees – below ~ I’ve been very fortunate and thankful to cover the beautiful Tolaini Estate extensively on these pages. Along with many others it’s one of the estates I…
Continue reading“Terroir is a combined outcome of land, climate and culture. Terroir is the essence of great wines.” Since about 1900, the Fuligni family, led by proprietor Giovanni Fuligni, has been producing wine on the eastern slopes of the Montalcino hill…
Continue reading~ Just like after 9/11: These colors don’t run ~ Last month, we began our introduction to Fattoria Casabianca with a look at their Chianti Colli Senesi Riserva; …
Continue reading~ The late Franco Biondi Santi inspecting a bottle from the 1888 vintage in his cellar ~ The long, proud, aristocratic story filled with tradition and passion begins in 1865 when Clemente Santi, the great, great Grandfather of Franco Biondi…
Continue reading~ The Entrance to Monteraponi, Radda in Chianti ~ Monteraponi; a tiny, forest enclosed monopole just outside the center of Radda and lovingly tended by “Il Uomo” – proprietor and winemaker Michele Braganti. There’s been lots written about Monteraponi on…
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