STORIE DI VINI E VITICOLTORI
It was written and said a lot about Silvio Jermann, and with good reason, because we are talking about a Friulian producer capable of bringing his wines to success in the world market, one of those people who, needless to say, has a prominent place among the Made in Italy wine standard-bearers. [Read more…] about Vintage Tunina 2018, Jermann
The Austrian entrepreneur Karl Egger had known the Chianti territory for several years, being used to spend the holidays there, with his family. Slowly Egger fell in love with those places and decided to establish, in 2012, a farm, with 100 hectares of land, in the territory of Radda, the famous sub-area of Chianti Classico, between Florence and Siena. [Read more…] about Uno 2016, Tenuta Carleone di Castiglioni
The first historical sources, dating back to the 10th century, speak of the Poggio di Monteraponi, in the heart of the Chianti Classico territory, on which stood the homonymous village. Right in this enclave, which already at the time owned cellars for wine production, under the Poggio’s tower, now stands the farm Monteraponi, founded in 1974 and still managed by Michele Braganti. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva Il Campitello 2015, Monteraponi
It is now 20 years since Bibi Graetz, a young dreamer who lived in a family of artists, founded his winery, in 2000, on the hill of Fiesole (Florence), driven by love for the world of wine. [Read more…] about Testamatta Bianco 2018, Bibi Graetz
The area of Scarperia San Pietro, in the territory of Mugello, 25 kilometers north of Florence, was already known in 1465, since here the Medici family owned the Podere Fortuna, the family residence that produced “good” and “vermilion” wine. [Read more…] about Pinot Nero 1465 2012, Podere Fortuna
Avignonesi winery was founded in 1974, by the homonymous family, in Valiano, in the province of Siena, in the production area of the Nobile di Montepulciano wine. Although the work of the property had been rich in satisfaction from the beginning, in 2009 it was decided to sell the winery to Virginie Saverys, a young Belgian lawyer who, after her legal successes, had moved to Tuscany in 2007. [Read more…] about Nobile di Montepulciano Poggetto di Sopra 2016, Avignonesi
Castello Conti winery was founded in Maggiora, in the province of Novara, in the northern part of Piedmont, in 1963, by Ermanno Conti, who took up his uncle Pietro legacy, giving it a new and important impulse. [Read more…] about Boca Il Rosso delle Donne 2006, Castello Conti
The history of the Manincor winery is characterized by the interweaving between the Manincor family, who, at the beginning of 1600, built the historic estate edifice, and the Ezemberg family, owner since 1978, who already in 1698 owned wineries in South Tyrol in Caldaro, Terlano and Schwarz. [Read more…] about Pinot Noir Mason di Mason 2016, Manincor
Marisa Cuomo winery was born in 1983 as a wedding gift from Andrea Ferraioli to his wife Marisa. It is located in Furore, the Amalfi Coast fjord, in a town of very few souls perched on the rock. The vineyard terracing is extreme and every metre of land must be forcibly stolen from the inaccesible and precipitous rocks;
[Read more…] about Costa d’Amalfi Bianco Fiorduva 2017, Marisa Cuomo
Duemani winery, lying in Ripadella and Castellina Marittima (on the Tuscan coast), is the result of Elena Celli and Luca D’Attoma partnership. The choice of the lands was based, from the beginning, on the need to find a suitable place for the production of international grapes such as Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Syrah. [Read more…] about Syrah Suisassi 2016, Duemani
Roberto Cipresso’s story began in 1987, when this young winemaker from Bassano del Grappa moved to Montalcino, starting his cooperation with famous wineries such as Case Basse, Poggio Antico and Ciacci Piccolomini d’Aragona. [Read more…] about La Quadratura del Cerchio 2017, Cipresso 43 di Roberto Cipresso
St. Michael Eppan winery, established in 1907, occupies an important place in South Tyrolean enology, with its 340 partners and its 380 hectares of vineyards. Although it boasts various labels of undeniable value, it is not wrong to state this cellar fame is still currently linked to its Sanct Valentin branded Reserves. [Read more…] about Weissburgunder Sanct Valentin The Wine Collection 2008, St. Michael Eppan
In 2007 three friends winegrowers, Danilo Šnajder, Božidar Grabovac and Rajko Žličar, in the small village of Ormož, put together their land and their experiences to establish Verus winery. [Read more…] about Riesling 2018, Verus Vinogradi
Lucca province wine-growing history has its roots in the remote past: it seems that the land was already cultivated, before the arrival of the Romans, by the Etruscans and Ligurians, primordial connoisseurs of the wine production techniques. The historical sources clearly testify the vine presence in the slopes of Lucca northern hills before the year 1000 [Read more…] about Palistorti di Valgiano Rosso 2017, Tenuta di Valgiano
Andrea Franchetti’s genius and resourcefulness is well represented by his famous wines on Etna volcano and in Val d’Orcia, in Tuscany: the famous Franchetti and the iconic Tenuta di Trinoro. [Read more…] about Le Cupole di Trinoro 2018, Tenuta di Trinoro
The Pic 1er Chablis, perhaps not the best bottle of the denomination, is a wine that the old pioneers in the wine trade could not have been exempt from drinking at least once. Imported to Italy from the beginning by Baron Amerigo Sagna company, established in 1928, this wine was one of the first bottles [Read more…] about Pic 1er 2002, Albert Pic
Riecine is the name of a medieval village, located in the heart of the Chianti Classico, in Gaiole, whose particular wine vocation was developed by the Dunkley spouses, since 1971. The homonymous winery, after having gained quite quickly the fame of “Specialist of Sangiovese”, has kept it unchanged until today, [Read more…] about Riecine 2013, Riecine
Domaine Derain was born in Saint Aubin in 1988 from the hands of Dominique Derain, a name already famous for his collaborations in the cellars of several prestigious Cote de Beaune Domains. [Read more…] about Gevrey Chambertin En Vosne 2012, Domaine Derain
Capannelle winery was born from an idea of the Roman entrepreneur Raffaele Rossetti who, in 1974, bought an old seventeenth-century farmhouse in the heart of Chianti Classico, in Gaiole, and 10 and a half hectares of vineyard. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2013, Capannelle
Baron de L, the Maison de Ladoucette top wine, is undoubtedly a wine that warms the heart of the most nostalgic italian drinkers. Imported in Italy by Sagna from immemorial times, this wine has joined the first curious lovers of French white wines, having been among one of the first to be marketed in Italy. [Read more…] about Baron de L 2005, Ladoucette
