Tastings
This section contains articles about wine tastings that the DoctorWine team conducts around Italy: by types, wineries, vintages.
Basilicata, land of white wines?
It is well known that when people talk about Basilicata they immediately think of Aglianico del Vulture. But Vulture is a cool land, which also suits white grapes very well, although they are in the minority. Try it to believe....
The supernatural wine of Bodegas Menade
Thanks to the Blend 2024 event, we were able to taste a very special wine: the Castilla y León Sobrenatural 2018 Bodegas Menade. The 2024 edition of Blend, the enocultural review conceived and implemented by Bellenda. “Event, reserved for producers,...
Amalberga, rediscovering the Ostuni Doc.
Dario De Pascale, with friends and partners Roberto Fracassetti and Roberto Candia and together with winemakers Valentino Ciarla and Gloria Battista, launched the Amalberga project. The rediscovery of the Ostuni Doc, revitalizing Ostuni oenology and revaluing the territory. Ostuni, known...
Pio Cesare celebrates 30 years of Barbaresco Il Bricco
Left undiscovered, Barbaresco Il Bricco is a wine whose great evolutionary potential confirms the intuition of Pio Boffa, who bought the vineyard in Treiso in 1972 and began making this wine in 1990. By the will of Pio Boffa, the...
Marjan Simčič and the Bigot method. 100, 300, 500 questions
The meeting between Slovenian winemaker Marjan Simčič and Friulian agronomist Giovanni Bigot helped further raise the level of this winery’s wines. Fragrant, concrete, elegant wines-in a word, memorable. I visited in Brda to Marjan Simčič, one of the most internationally...
The sparkling adventure of Claudia and Giulia Benazzoli
The Benazzoli sisters “come home” with their new Trentodoc, a classic method 100% Chardonnay. A sparkling adventure wanted by Dad and dedicated to him. Claudia and Giulia Benazzoli Physically, big shoulders do not have them; they are both well-proportioned. Figuratively...
Happy Days of the Roero
Today in Milan Roero Days, a day full of events to raise awareness of the Roero territory and its wines. Roero Days, the annual traveling event promoting the area and its wine heritage, will take place today a Milan at...
What’s new in Franciacorta, at the Consortium and Montina
Revamping image and logo is not just a matter of form, but serves to reinforce the intended brand idea. This is what guided both the Franciacorta Consortium, which changed its historical logo, and the Montina company. The Franciacorta Consortium will...
Cuvée Tal, the Supertirols of Cantina Bolzano
There are two new Cuvées Tal le Supertirol from Cantina Bolzano: Tal 1930, white, and Tal 1908, red. Two highly expressive wines that stand at the top of the winery’s range. Anyone who loves South Tyrolean wines knows the consistent...
Metropolitan vineyards in Campania
Few people know that Naples is the second largest urban vineyard area in Europe. Of course, the Metropolitan City of Naples is large, extending beyond the municipal area, but metropolitan vineyards creep through the concrete and asphalt of the city,...
Two simple and pleasant Soave
Soave is one of Italy’s historic white wines, which has been making a comeback in recent years. We have chosen two that cost the public less than 10 euros. Recognized as “typical wine” as early as 1931, Soave is much...
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...
Sicilian whites fly
Sicilian white wines are proving more and more popular with consumers, primarily Grillo, but Catarratto is no less in pleasantness and freshness. We offer CVA Canicattì's Grillo Fileno and Rapitalà's Catarratto Vigna Casalj. With 95,760 hectares of vines under cultivation,...
Vigna Ganger, Girlan’s Pinot Nero Riserva
A tasting of five vintages of Vigna Ganger demonstrated the elegance of this South Tyrolean Pinot Noir from a single vineyard in Mazon. In Italy, the cooperative system represents both in oenological and economic terms an important reality: there are...
In the world of Barbera
Barbera is a wine with easy-drinking characteristics (easy, not trivial), a wine that everyone likes and can agree on. Here are four to try to start entering the world of Barbera. If “wine is the poetry of the earth,” as...
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...
4 Prosecco Superiore to drink with joy
We could say that any time is a good time to drink a Prosecco. As an aperitif or to accompany a light meal, we offer 4 Prosecco Superiore of excellent quality. Your choice. Are you among those who celebrate April...
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...
The redemption of Pecorino
Like many native Italian grape varieties, it has risked extinction to now find its revenge between the province of Ascoli Piceno and Abruzzo. We point out two from Abruzzo with excellent value for money: Barba and Citra. In the mid-nineteenth...
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...
New wine at home PuntoZero in the Colli Berici
The new wine in PuntoZero's home in the Berici Hills, Marcella, a classic blend from the Colli Berici: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tai rosso, was born. A warm and powerful wine that is reasonably priced. At home PuntoZero Marcella was born....
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...
Oltrepò white and allochthonous
Alongside sparkling wines (white or rosé) and still wines (usually red) in Oltrepò we also find excellent white wines, and we highlight two truly enjoyable ones from international grapes. When we talk about Oltrepò Pavese we inevitably think of the...
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...