STORIE DI VINI E VITICOLTORI
Among the great wineries, famous for the production of Champagne wines, Billecart-Salmon Maison occupies, without a doubt, a remarkable position. On the other hand, it is not by chance that two thousandths (1959 and 1961) place themselves in the first two places of the ranking emerged from the famous blind tasting held in Stockholm in 1999 (the first, 1959, even called the “Champagne of the millennium”). [Read more…] about Brut Réserve, Billecart-Salmon
The Benanti family from Bologna would not have thought that one of their descendants would end up producing wine in Sicily when one of their members was sent there in 1734 by King Vittorio Amedeo d’Aosta. Etna was a volcano whose fertility made the surrounding lands extremely suited to wine production, to the point that the nearby city of Catania had reached the record of Sicilian production in the mid-1800s, even owning a school of oenology (1881) and its own wine office (1886). [Read more…] about Etna Rosso Riserva Rovittello Parcella n.341 2015, Benanti
The wine production of the Antinori family boasts, among its ranks, real wine monuments, able to warm the hearts of their fans around the world. On the other hand, it is still one of the oldest Maison, now in its twenty-sixth generation, with Albiera, Alessia and Allegra Antinori, daughters of the Marquis Piero Antinori, after more than 600 years of history. [Read more…] about Franciacorta Blanc de Noir Conte Aymo 2016, Marchese Antinori Tenuta Montenisa
The history of the Jermann winery began in 1881 when the founder Anton arrived in Villanova, near Farra d’Isonzo, 10 kilometers from the border between Italy and Slovenia, after leaving the Slovenian Bilijana. The bond between the Jermann family and the wine remained unchanged over time, while the family business passed from father to son until Angelo, who expanded the brand by extending the activities to livestock, and to his son Silvio, the true Deus ex machina of the winery international success. [Read more…] about Pinot Nero Lonsblau 2015, Jermann
According to the available sources, it is possible to say that the Moretti family was present in Erbusco, the country became the beating heart of the denomination Franciacorta docg, since 1400. Certainly at that time it could not be assumed that those areas would become so important for the Italian viticulture and for the production of sparkling wines: and in fact in 1967, the founder, Vittorio Moretti, had initially given rise to a construction company: The Moretti Building on Human Values. [Read more…] about Franciacorta Demi-Sec Nectar, Bellavista
The history of the Badia (Abbey) in Coltibuono is very ancient: it was built around the church of San Lorenzo in Coltibuono, in the second half of the eleventh century, taking the name of Badia a Cultusboni, from the Latin cultus (agriculture) and bonus (good), which told how those lands had a particular vocation for agriculture. In fact, the work of the Vallombrosan monks, the Badia inhabitants, was focused on the revival of agriculture, based mainly on the oil and wine production, the same conduct long before them by the Etruscans and the Romans until 300 BC.. [Read more…] about Chianti Classico Riserva 2010, Badia a Coltibuono
To establish when the link between the Drusian family and wine production was born, we have to go back to the middle of 1800, with the first members who settled in Bigolino, in Valdobbiadene, 30 kilometers north of Treviso, in Veneto. Among the ancestors of the current owner, Francesco Drusian, who succeeded in 1984, it is worth remembering his grandfather Giuseppino and his father Rino, who gave an important boost to the winery. [Read more…] about Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Brut, Drusian
To establish the date of birth of the relationship between the Aubry family and champagne we must go back in time, since already in 1790 are traceable documents that speak of their wines. This family is now represented by the twins Philippe and Pierre Aubry who lead the Maison Aubry et Fils in Jouy-lès-Reims, a small village at the northern foot of the Montagne de Reims. [Read more…] about Brut Le Nombre d’Or “Campaniae Veteres Vites” 2014, Champagne L. Aubry Fils
The Pellizzati family has been producing wine in Valtellina for over a century and a half, a valley of glacial origin that extends parallel to the Alps for 120 kilometers, from the Stelvio Pass to Lake Como. The first official documents mention the wines of this family as early as 1860, and tell how this last has continued to produce them, through four generations. [Read more…] about Valtellina Superiore Grumello Riserva Buon Consiglio 2009, ARPEPE
Domaine Arnoux-Lacaux, whose seat is in Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy, has a centuries-old history, having been founded by the Arnoux family patriarch in 1858. Nevertheless, the most important date remains the beginning of the ’60s when Robert Arnoux decided to choose the private bottling of his own grapes, starting the official history. [Read more…] about Echezaux 2012, Domaine Arnoux-Lacaux
The rise that the young Arianna Occhipinti, and her wines, have had in little more than 15 years of history, is a phenomenon that deserves to be studied, as it is a reality made, certainly, of success but also of a lot of commitment and effort. This young woman, newly graduated in oenology, soon began to cut her teeth, buying in 2004 , at just over 20 years, a piece of land in the area of Vittoria, in Sicily. [Read more…] about Cerasuolo di Vittoria Grotte Alte 2014, Arianna Occhipinti
Although the name of Enzo Pontoni says relatively little to the vast majority of wine consumers, it is worth remembering that he is the mind and arms that lie behind the Miani winery, wich produces with incredible constancy rare and legendary wines. The story of Enzo begins around the early ’80s when he decided to leave the engineering sector, where he worked, to take care full-time of the Buttrio family winery (10 kilometers southeast of Udine), and the family vineyards, between Buttrio and Corno di Rosazzo, in the denomination Colli Orientali del Friuli. [Read more…] about Chardonnay Baracca 2017, Miani
If today Sardinian wine is known and appreciated around the world, much of this success is attributed to the winery Argiolas from Serdiana, about 20 kilometers north of Cagliari. Its history could be started around 1920 when Antonio Argiolas’ father had begun to buy the first vineyards, but it will have to wait for Antonio and 1938 for the official winery founding act. [Read more…] about Korem 2010, Argiolas
The wine production of the Antinori family boasts, among its ranks, real wine monuments, able to warm the hearts of their fans around the world. On the other hand, it is still one of the oldest Maison, now in its twenty-sixth generation, with Albiera, Alessia and Allegra Antinori, daughters of the Marquis Piero Antinori, after more than 600 years of history. [Read more…] about Tignanello 2010, Antinori
The area of “San Marco de Corticellis” was an ancient Langobard agricultural court, located in an Umbria area already known for its microclimate, particularly suitable for wine and oil production. Those same lands, between the 13th and the 19th century belonged to the properties administered by the Bishop of Spoleto until, in 1881, the lawyer Francesco Antonelli (also from Spoleto) took over the property. [Read more…] about Trebbiano Spoletino Anteprima Tonda 2018, Antonelli San Marco
There are very few Burgundy Houses that, like that of Bouchard Père & Fils, founded in Beaune by Michel Bouchard in 1731, can boast almost 300 years of history. To get to the first vineyards owned, however, it will have to wait until 1775, when Joseph Bouchard bought some plots in the famous 1er Cru of Volnay “Caillerets”, also giving way, at the same time, to the construction of the family estate. [Read more…] about Beaune Grèves Vigne de l’Enfant Jesus 2006, Bouchard Père & Fils
Talking about Alsatian viticulture without mentioning Zind-Humbrecht is a rather complicated speculative exercise, since it is the winery that, perhaps most of all, has contributed to the development of this region. The Domaine was born in 1959 from the union of the lands of the Humbrecht and the Zind families, two dynasties that for centuries cultivated the vine in Gueberschwihr (Humbrecht) and Wintzenheim (Zind), in Alsace, united by the marriage between Léonard Humbrecht and Geneviève Zind. [Read more…] about Riesling Roche Granitique 2018, Domaine Zind-Humbrecht
Since the Girardin family began viticulture in the seventeenth century, in Santenay, in the extreme south of the Côte de Beaune, it is not surprising that Young Vincent decided at only 19 years old, in 1980, to undertake this activity, starting from two hectares inherited from his parents. The speed with which the quality of his wines was recognized and appreciated is almost incredible, given his young age, and is also the reason why it was possible to expand his business with the purchase of the most prestigious land of his beloved Côte de Beaune (Meursault, Puligny Montrachet, Chassagne Montrachet, Saint Aubin, Santenay, Savigny Les Beaune, Aloxe Corton, Volnay and Pommard). [Read more…] about Chevalier Montrachet 2006, Vincent Girardin
In 1974 Giuseppe Castiglioni realized his dream: to produce great wines, in the heart of Chianti Classico, using both autochthonous and international grapes, stimulated in this by the progressive affirmation, also in Italy, of the great wines of Bordeaux. Between the ’80s and ’90s his son Sebastiano, once inherited the reins of the company, while continuing in the paternal direction, expands his vision with the accession to the organic regime and, subsequently (2000), to the biodynamic, organic and vegan. [Read more…] about Batàr 2016, Querciabella
The Azienda Agricola Trabucchi d’Illasi was founded by the lawyer Marco Trabucchi in 1920, in a hamlet of Illasi (Monte Tenda), in Valpolicella, 15 kilometers east of Verona. In the 1950s the company passed to Marco’s son, Professor Alberto, who, despite being a luminary of private law, who came to write a manual on the subject, still considered a reference text for university students and not only, worked with equal vigour and enthusiasm for the wine production of Valpolicella. [Read more…] about Valplicella Superiore Ripasso Villa Trabucchi 2016, Trabucchi d’Illasi
