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~ 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…

It’s probably one of the most mispronounced words in wine lexicon. Meritage.  It’s a coined phrase by an association of wine growers and is a combination of Merit and Heritage.  It rhymes with Heritage.  Don’t announce yourself the novice in…

~ Domenico Clerico ~   In 1976, after decades of selling grapes to the local Barolo consorzio and to locals around Monforte, Domenico Clerico’s father asked his son if he wanted to take control of the family farm.  With a…

  Abruzzo’s climate and topography is as varied as any province in Italy.  The regions wines, born mostly from the Montepulciano grape,  are directly impacted by these various microclimates.   From the Colline Teramo on which I previously reported, to the…