Exploring wineries
Exploring wineries, visits to wineries, chats with producers, tastings of the year’s production or old vintages. Everything about a winery tour.
Fessina Estate. A new wine for Silvia Mestrelli
Two years after the untimely death of Tenuta di Fessina founder Silvia Maestrelli, her heirs are dedicating a special Reserve to her. The label is of a color bright coral red, Silvia Maestrelli’s favorite. The source vineyards are also those...
The Renaissance Tradition of the Marchesi Gondi
This is custom heading element The world of wine is fascinating and allows you to experience unique and unexpected sensations. During the Tuscan previews, we found ourselves in the florentine renaissance, to discover the Renaissance tradition of the Marchesi Gondi....
Butussi family selections
A meeting at the winery allowed the press to learn more about the selections, vineyards and cellar of this important producer in the Colli Orientali del Friuli. Just at the beginning of spring, the Butussi family wanted to organize a...
Vigna Michelangelo: an urban vineyard is reborn in the heart of Florence
The first modern urban vineyard in Florence is pink. Young female entrepreneurs plant 700 new vines creating Vigna Michelangelo. We are on the hill overlooking the Arno River, just a few steps from Piazzale Michelangelo, with a view that sweeps...
Brolo dei Giusti, the high-end of Cantine di Verona
Cantine di Verona's Brolo dei Giusti line all includes identity wines dedicated to the restaurant industry. Cantine di Verona is increasingly focused on projects dedicated to catering. Having consolidated the foundations, the union and coherence between different territories united under...
Vietti’s extraordinary “battery”
A tasting of the Piedmont-based winery Vietti's 15 upcoming wines demonstrated the absolute quality of the entire range. A beautiful Roman evening at Achilli in Parliament, featuring new vintages of products from Vietti. Vietti represents about 150 years of Langa...
Albino Armani and the care of the land
Passionate about mountains as well as wine, Albino Armani seeks out fragile territories to care for. Strictly mountain or high hill, sloping possibly, in an inevitable pandering to the forms of nature. I got lost in the stories of Albino...
Restivo: is a star being born?
Young Catanian entrepreneur Francesco Restivo is setting up a 50-plus-hectare winery on Etna, and with advice from the Cotarella-Chiasso team he has come out with his first, excellent wine: the Etna Bianco Contrada Arcuria 2022. The adventure of Francis Restivo...
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...