Francesco Fabbretti

STORIE DI VINI E VITICOLTORI

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Dandarin 2007, Trabucchi d’Illasi

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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 Dandarin 2007, Trabucchi d’Illasi

Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso il Fornetto 2015, Stefano Accordini

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The history of Stefano Accordini winery dates back to the early ‘900 when Stefano’s father, Gaetano, worked as a sharecropper in Valpolicella, producing wines for local consumption. It will be Stefano to glimpse all the potential of this activity and decide, following the abolition of sharecropping, to buy, in the valley of. Negrar, what, to this day, remains his most emblematic vineyard: il Fornetto. [Read more…] about Valpolicella Classico Superiore Ripasso il Fornetto 2015, Stefano Accordini

Valplicella Superiore Ripasso Villa Trabucchi 2016, Trabucchi d’Illasi

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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

Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva Lilium Est 2006, Tenuta Sant’Antonio

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The relative quckness with which the Veronese winery Tenuta Sant’Antonio have been able to carve out a leading role in the production of the traditional Valpolicella wines is a fact now acquired. It all began in 1989 when four brothers, Armando, Massimo, Tiziano and Paolo Castagnedi, bought about thirty hectares of vineyards in Monte Garbi, 15 kilometers east of Verona, and joined the 20 purchased by their father Antonio in 1961 in San Zeno di Colognola, 10 more kilometers to the east. [Read more…] about Amarone della Valpolicella Riserva Lilium Est 2006, Tenuta Sant’Antonio

Amarone Classico Riserva Terre di Cariano 2013, Cecilia Beretta

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To try an explanation of Cantina Cecilia Beretta success we need to take a few steps back, and start from the group of which it is part, owned by the Pasqua family. This group was born in 1925 with the intention of enhancing the Venetian viticulture, with wines produced in the San Felice winery, in the province of Verona. [Read more…] about Amarone Classico Riserva Terre di Cariano 2013, Cecilia Beretta

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