Exploring wineries
Exploring wineries, visits to wineries, chats with producers, tastings of the year’s production or old vintages. Everything about a winery tour.
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...
The modernity of Col di Lamo in Montalcino
Giovanna Neri’s winery focuses on a young, feminine and modern image and offers a very convincing wine style. Giovanna Neri, sparkling owner of Col di Lamo, is a lawyer who decided a few decades ago to devote herself to her...