Tastings
This section contains articles about wine tastings that the DoctorWine team conducts around Italy: by types, wineries, vintages.
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...
Florio, the quintessential Marsala
Just visit the Florio cellars to touch on the history of this extraordinary wine. Marsala is one of Italy's great wines, too often mistreated because of the havoc wreaked on it in years past. Fortunately, Florio continues to keep the...
The case history of Pinot Grigio delle Venezie
A worldwide phenomenon, Italian Pinot Grigio, from the Venetian regions in particular, has marked and is continuing to mark the furrow of a style that is recognizable and appreciated in various parts of the world. “Between new trends and market...
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....
Roagna, Pajé and its wines
After yesterday's framing of the Roagna family and the Pajé amphitheater, we get into the tasting today, with tastings of all the Barbarescos and in particular a vertical of 11 vintages of Crichet Pajé. Come premesso ieri, l’anfiteatro di Pajé...
Roagna and the Pajé amphitheater
The winery is located in Paglieri, Barbaresco. In total, the family owns 20 hectares of land, including 15 hectares under vine, in the most vocated areas of Barbaresco and Barolo. The flagship is the Pajé vineyards. The story is about...
Pergole Torte vertical tasting
An iconic Tuscan wine that Sergio Manetti first and his son Martino later stubbornly made since 1977, against the Chianti Classico specification, to exalt pure Sangiovese. It all began in 1977, when Sergio Manetti, in controversy with the Chianti Classico...
Brunello di Montalcino 2019 is presented
A beautiful vintage, with very well articulated wines with no muscular excesses, no aggressive tannins and fresh aromas. Watch out, however, for wines that are too light: you can feel the alcohol, the tannins are aggressive and the texture disappears....
Rotalian Encounters return
In its third edition, Incontri Rotaliani continues under the banner of encounter: Trentino's mountain wines, I Teroldego Rotaliani, meet Sicily's 'A Muntagna wines, Etna Doc. Yes, I’m talking about the now fearless and acclaimed red wines of Etna that fear...
Fabri, Rivera’s new rosé, is born
Fabri is the new rosé wine made entirely from Apulian Nero di Troia grapes that the De Corato family dedicates to Fabrizio, who died prematurely last year. Since 1950, the De Corato family, owners of Cantina Rivera, has firmly linked...
Carmignano Trefiano: 40 years without feeling it
The Contini Bonacossi family's Carmignano Riserva Trefiano was born in 1979 from an idea of Vittorio, who was young, enterprising and eager to experiment at the time. Dedicated to him is this cru, which, in the vertical tasting carried out,...
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...
Lugana for all
Lugana is the Garda white wine that makes drinkability its atout. The slight aromaticity is due to the Turbiana (Trebbiano di Lugana) grape variety that is its soul. It has already happened to us several times to talk about Lugana,...
Sannio Vineyard
An area that occupies first place in the Campania wine sector and where Falanghina and Aglianico are the masters. Ten thousand hectares planted with vines, seven thousand nine hundred winemakers, about one hundred bottling companies for more than one million...
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...
Mediterranean Rosé wine
San Salvatore 1988 winery is offering a new rosé wine from Aglianico grapes this year, Il Bufalo Rosa, which is pleasant and centered in price. Peppino Pagano is one of Cilento’s most famous entrepreneurs. Since 1988 he has been producing...
Maison A. Bergère and the quest for softness
Young Champagne producer Adrien Bergère, the third generation (all named in A) to make wine in Champagne, has clear, scientific ideas about how to produce, with just a little homage to tradition. I met a young Champagne producer. 32 years...
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...
Vertical tasting of Castello del Terriccio
We tasted nine vintages of Castello del Terriccio, the Syrah and Petit Verdot blend from the winery already famous for Lupicaia. We end with a surprise: a preview of Gian Annibale 2019, the second vintage of the wine dedicated to...
Josko’s Ribolla
Gravner's 2015 Ribolla Gialla is a total, extraordinary wine where everything is in the right place, a wine that allows one to fully understand Josko Gravner's professional and even human journey. The personal story of Josko Gravner, his wife Marjia,...
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....
Chianti Classico Gran Selezione Villa Rosa of the Cecchi Family
The complete vertical of a wine that, though young, has already made its mark in the world of Chianti Grand Selections. Occasion: the Cecchi family's 130 years as entrepreneurs in the wine industry. One might begin with the classic phrase:...
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...
15 wines for 15 years with Vulcania and ViniMilo
Usual appointment with volcanic wines from all over Italy, with a conference and tasting to recount the first fifteen years of the Volcanic Wines network. The idea came from afar, precisely 15 years ago, and it could only start with...
Abruzzo told in the Gironi DiVini
Three hundred tastings from seventy-five wineries to discover Abruzzo's best wines in Gironi DiVini 2023 competition During the four days of Anteprima Gironi DiVini 2023 curated by Franco Santini, which saw us involved in tasting wines from Abruzzo, a number...
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...