Vertical Tasting
The vertical tasting is the DoctorWine column devoted to tastings of the same label from a given winery with depth of vintages to highlight the evolution over the years of the wine itself.
Cerretta vertical tasting
Sensory journey to discover the evolution over time of one of Sergio Germano’s Barolos: the Cerretta cru. Cerretta is one of the great Barolo vineyards, claimed by more and more producers in an increasing way over the past fifteen years....
Wine and health: possible combination?
The combination of wine and health was discussed at a conference near Manduria organized by journalist-vineyardist Bruno Vespa, who brought together a table of real experts for the occasion. Is the combination of wine and health possible or not? The...
The 60th anniversary of the Livon company
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Livon winery organized a vertical tasting of its flagship wine, Braide Alte. Contributed by Stefania Vinciguerra – The Livon company was founded in 1964 by. Dorino Livon who, as a timber merchant, decided to...
Vertical of the iconic Verdicchio Villa Bucci (2)
To make the vertical tasting of this great wine complete, we thought we would complete Vignadelmar’s narrative and update the iconic vertical of Verdicchio Villa Bucci with successive vintages. From yesterday’s story from 2012, we were left right here. As...
Vertical of the iconic Verdicchio Villa Bucci (1)
In 2012 Luciano Lombardi Vignadelmar went to do a vertical tasting of the iconic Villa Bucci, at the winery and with Ampelio Bucci. We feel we can do it again 12 years later and guarantee that the wines are not...
Paleo, a happy insight
There is a winery in Bolgheri that has made its fundamental contribution to creating the myth of the area as we know it now. We are talking about Le Macchiole and its Paleo Rosso. You can’t refuse an invitation from...
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...
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...
Baffonero under observation
Baffonero, the pure Merlot of the Rocca di Frassinello winery, confirms itself as one of the great Merlots of the Grosseto Maremma. We propose a small vertical of them. That Merlot is a grape that can yield great results goes...
25 years of Poggio Valente from Fattoria Le Pupille
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her flagship Sangiovese, Poggio Valente, Elisabetta Geppetti, with her children Clara and Ettore, organized a vertical tasting of this Maremma cru. I remember when I met Elisabetta Geppetti, well over two decades...
Divoto, Apollonio Riseva
Copertino Rosso Riserva Divoto is the flagship wine of the Apollonio winery, a Salento champion with great longevity. We participated in a small vertical. Divoto, a blend of Negroamaro and Montepulciano, is a label that tells of the devotion of...
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...
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...
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,...