Exploring wineries
Exploring wineries, visits to wineries, chats with producers, tastings of the year’s production or old vintages. Everything about a winery tour.
Edoardo Miroglio’s Bulgarian Pinot Noir
Piedmontese producer Edoardo Miroglio has purchased a farm in Thrace and produces, among other things, an excellent Bulgarian Pinot Noir there. When you go to lunch with certain friends who have made a love of wine their life, you expect...
Cavazza between Gambellara and Colli Berici
Renewing its image, with a new logo and restyled labels, the Cavazza family renovates vineyard facilities, improves technologically and lengthens the aging time of the wines. Drawing from the past with a light touch. Less austere, more modern and current...
Whites from black grapes: 5 wines between Campania and Basilicata
As unusual as it may seem, making a white wine from red grapes is neither strange nor difficult: just separate the must from the skins (where the coloring substances reside). We propose 5 labels from the South, between Campania and...
Alexandre Bonnet, an ode to the territory of Les Riceys
The domaine Alexandre Bonnet, a symbol of the Les Riceys territory in the Côte des Bar, has made a docufilm that is an ode to its territory. We tasted his champagnes. It is not every day that one is invited...
Suavia steps up for the territory
The Tessari sisters of Suavia create a true homage to the geographical units of Soave by creating a dedicated line and allowing their personalities to shine through. At number three, the Tessari family had long been accustomed to it. There...
Marche’s Collina delle Fate
In the Marche region, in the center of the Metauro valley, which runs inland from its native Fano, we come to Fossombrone. Massimo Berloni, in addition to being mayor of the city and a successful entrepreneur in the field of...
A day in Monteverro
I spent a day at the Monteverro estate on the Costa d'Argento in the far southern part of the Maremma. Between the vineyards, the winery and the tastings. An experience to share. For those who love Tuscany, and the Maremma,...
Cantina Dorgali 1953, an important growing business
More than 70 years ago, Cantina Dorgali 1953, one of the most important entities in the Sardinian wine world, was born in eastern Sardinia. Today, the winery has implemented a production upgrading project, the results of which are brilliant. La...
Marco Lazzaroni, wine producer and rugby player
Marco Lazzaroni wanted to be a chef as a child, but then studied at the scientific high school and is now a professional Rugby player. In your spare time, what do you do? The winemaker of course! Marco Lazzaroni That...
Fedra , the collectible wine of Tommaso Inghirami
Tommaso Inghirami, owner of Fattoria di Grignano in Rufina, launches the Fedra project, his first collectible wine linked to art and territory. “ Just as for so many years we sewed shirts, today we also sew wines that have the...
Tenuta Donna Elvira and its wines
Tenuta Donna Elvira wines and that mix of London charm and Italian authenticity. It is beautiful, modern and well-equipped winery at Tenuta Donna Elvira. It is due to Tony Fink, an Englishman with Italian roots, who bought the first land...
Errata Corrige: Cantine Santa Barbara
We remedy an error of denomination published in the Essential Guide to Italian Wines 2024 regarding Cantine Santa Barbara in Puglia. We received a phone call from. Maria Rosaria Giorgiani, owner of the Catine Santa Barbarain Apulia, who was complaining...
Pol Roger, the Champagne of Friendship
2024 is a significant year for the Champagne house, which celebrates 175 since its founding. The consolidation of the sixth generation, as well as the 40th anniversary of the market launch of Winston Churchill Pol Roger the Champagne of the...
Bossi Fedrigotti, a piece of history
A centuries-old winery, Bossi Fedrigotti in 1961 gave birth to Italy's first Bordeaux blend, Fojaneghe, and now it also amazes us with its Trentodoc Riserva, Conte Federico. I remember as if it were yesterday when from the editorial office of...
Picolit, a Friulian rarity
Historically a wine of the great European nobility, Picolit is considered a "meditation wine" of great prestige, a true Friulian rarity. Put four high school friends over dinner one night, a raspberry Bavarian cream and a Picolit that many know...
Audace, Serena Wines’ Prosecco that ages underwater
The great Conegliano-based sparkling wine company offers a Prosecco Trieste Doc aged 22 meters deep under the water of the Gulf of Trieste. Have you ever happened to observe wine-from water? Looking at the lands where wine is produced from...
Ladaltempo Ruggeri rewrites the rules of Prosecco Superiore
Ruggeri è un’azienda innovativa, che vuole riscrivere le regole del Prosecco Superiore. Con Ladaltempo lancia il cuore oltre l’ostacolo e propone un Valdobbiadene Millesimato di altissima caratura. Storica realtà produttiva per il Prosecco e il Prosecco Superiore delle colline patrimonio...
Villa Simone and the New Wave of Frascati
Lorenzo Costantini and his uncle Piero before him created a company in Monteporzio Catone that stands out for its approach and the quality of its Frascati wines. Piero Costantini was of Marche ancestry and came from a family of winemakers....
Arillo in Terrabianca, the Tuscan theorem.
The project of this winery is based on the "Tuscan Theorem," which is a triangle made up of three territories that ideally represent enological Tuscany: Chianti Classico, Maremma and Val d'Orcia. The company has long been present in the Italian...
Focus on Salento
A press tour organized by the Consortium of Salice Salentino allowed us to become better acquainted with this land and learn more about the path laid out by the producers for its wines. From the Adriatic to the Ionian, from...
Engineer Zamuner’s millesimates.
They called him, and still call him, the most French of Italians--to everyone, Engineer Zamuner. In that middle land between Verona and Lake Garda that would answer to the Custoza doc, it took an engineer to give us a little...
Sorelle Bronca, from the East to the West
A winery in the Prosecco Superiore region that knows no rest, with a microzonation study to produce wines that would enhance the territory according to its different expressions. Sorelle Bronca was founded in 1989, in Colbertaldo di Vidor (TV), when...
Between Lake and Mountain, Agraria Riva del Garda
Between oil and wine, the cooperative winery in Riva del Garda shows off a production that should be watched and combines quality with fairly low prices, especially in some lines. Agraria Riva del Garda (abbreviated Agriva) is the name of...
10 top Chianti Classico 2021
It is thanks to the numerous tastings carried out for the Essential Guide to the Wines of Italy 2024 at the Chianti Classico Consortium-Black Rooster that we can present our ranking of the best 10 Chianti Classico 2021. I would...
The time capsule from Ca’ del Bosco
Franciacorta winery Ca' del Bosco presented a Special Reserve of its iconic Franciacorta Annamaria Clementi: vintage 1980, among the greatest tastings ever. In 1980, more than 80 liters of wine per capita was drunk in Italy, roughly twice as much...
The grand design of The Cherry Orchard Hill
The new Valpolicella Superiore Peratara is just one piece of a project that includes densely planted and steeply sloping vineyards, a fully equipped winemaking cellar, rooms and suites at Cà del Moro Wine Retrait, a fine dining restaurant and more....
Nicola Mazzella, an Ischian visionary
You only have to talk to Nicola to see that he is ahead of the curve, already projected into the future of his land's enology, thanks to clear ideas and a hypermodern production philosophy that respects the island and its...
Cave Mont Blanc, the first 40 years
Forty years for the first sparkling wine produced by the cooperative winery from some of the highest vineyards in Europe: the Aosta Valley-based Cave Mont Blanc. Italian genius makes it possible to anticipate desires by creating fashions and trends. In...
Vigna Montosoli is born, the new cru of Canalicchio di Sopra
On a frosty, snowy winter day, the Ripaccioli brothers’ new Brunello di Montalcino, which comes from the dedicated vineyard on the hill of Montosoli, was presented. After passing through a copious snowfall, we finally reach Canalicchio di Sopra incredibly unharmed...
Brunello di Montalcino Giovanni Neri
Recall the presentation of Casanova di Neri’s new cru: the 2018 Brunello Giovanni Neri dedicated to the winery’s founder. A strong gust of wind greets us at Casanova di Neri, the sky is clear and the few clouds rush quickly...