Rediscovering the drinkability of wines
Now a good news, this year at one of Vinitaly watchwords will be “drinkable” wines. In fact there will be a debate organized by a large company, and the involvement of wine blogger, on the subject as announced in a post James Cossater Blog Intravino. Read here
Transparency as a duty
Excellent post on the website of Angelo Peretti Gourmet. Taking inspiration from an article by the excellent Matt Kramer on Wine Spectator article that calls on companies to be more communicative and transparent with consumers, Peretti notes: “that’s actually something that the world of wine does not do: say what happens in the cellar. Explain, talk, talk. Not to justify, but to inform. To create a climate of trust. To not treat the customer by stupidotto, because yes, in the era of Internet, there’s always more people trying to break in the evening on the keyboard. And maybe you can discover the secrets to who knows what unspeakable way. Better to be proactive. Transparency can now be a good marketing practice. I agree entirely Read here
But where is the wine?
The watchword, especially in these times of crisis is that leaving the wine cellars, which goes around the world, and is purchased mainly drunk in London than in Helsinki, Tokyo or New York or Moscow. More interesting, however, is to understand what the flow of wine, because some wines end up instead in a country rather than another, because certain markets react differently to various wine company that offers them. Very interesting then, to “try to understand how” real “people perceive wine, or rather, what is ‘the wine that he likes” the information that the producer and wine bloggers Gianpaolo Paglia tried to summarize a little’ joke on a chart posted on the company blog where he recounts and effectively summarizes the perception of the wine produced several foreign markets where it exports. Read here
Discover Sicily with Juancho Asenjo
Lucky wine lovers who read the Spanish language website Elmundovino great! To bring them the wonders of Italian wine have nothing less than the maximum of our knowledge Enotria tellus, the Madrid Juancho Asenjo, an expert and dear friend, this week offers them nothing less than a trip to Sicily, with “the route entre historia , el Arte y las Tradiciones “in Terre Sicane, the area latifundia Sicilian por excelencia. And good, as always Juancho! Read here
Barbera and on meeting again on acidity of wines
Still Alessandro Franceschini scene, this time on the website Lavinium, with a sharp article on the theme of the acidity of Barbera and the conclusions drawn by the taste of Asti Barbera meeting, where telling that “your favorite sport practiced by almost all of these , journalists, bloggers or buyers during the four days dedicated to tasting and blind, was to go in search of an enemy to find and sbertucciare without mercy: the barrel, is openly against the Manichean positions too, even subject of high alcohol content of wines from arguing that “there is a risk, however: to fall into the opposite extreme. I have heard colleagues ask, enraged, as if they were points on staff, why certain Barbera had 14 percent alcohol and ‘a nonsensical question. Or it could if we were faced with a manufacturer of Novello. Needless to stress that alcohol is having a component essential but not unique. There are 15 wines with alcohol, but with amazing balance, as well as liquids with 11 degrees, annoyingly sharp nose. Read here
Riesling in Langa? For Aldo Vaira “a wife” for Barolo
Still the scene of Piedmont, and this time Alba Langa, of the wine with a nice post blogger Jeremy Parzen American on his blog Do Bianchi, where the author, recounting a visit to the cellar by Aldo Vaira and his admiration for the Riesling Langhe beautiful white one of the most lucid protagonists barolesca Vaira says a conviction that the Riesling planted in Langa is basically a “wife” for Barolo … Read here
Vajra Vajra fortissimamente
Always Riesling Vajra, but also its Freisa Kye is another American wine bloggers, David McDuff, on his blog titled, defining the white of Vajra Langhe “the best Riesling I’ve tasted from anywhere outside Germany or Austria, or Best Riesling tasted outside the sacred lands of Germany and Austria. Read here
Wine bloggers in Langa
Veterans from Barbera meeting, which as we have said many times has enabled the opportunity for a Barbera blog a group of American wine bloggers took the opportunity of being in Piedmont land to make a series of visits to the lands of Barbaresco and Barolo. Among the most active in witnessing the results of meetings with producers of great importance, the blog author Brunellos have more fun that first recounts a visit made to the best winery of Italy, producers of Barbaresco, read here ( but also the post that the wine writer Tom Hyland of Chicago has dedicated here at Learn Italian wines) and then, showing great curiosity even to lesser-known wines, magnificent discovery, then of Novello by Elvio Cogno, with a wine and a little known variety, but of great value, as Nascetta. Read here
A man called Citric
Even Jeremy Parzen and his blog Do Bianchi scene with a spectacular post in the form of portrait dedicated to one of the most emblematic figures of Barolo, Giuseppe “Beppe” Rinaldi Citric in art, which is well defined and the nature of iconoclastic artist wine character against the uncommon intelligence. Read here
Latest by Tom vintages of Barolo Maresca
About Barolo and Langhe wines are reports the large article in the American wine writer Tom Maresca dedicated to a retrospective on the latest vintages of Barolo in particular, with tasting notes and reporting of his favorite Barolo 2005, also published in the edition online magazine American Quarterly Review of Wines. Read here
Chianti Classico 2009 seen by a producer
In part accessible to all the famous purple pages, or the website of the legendary British wine writer Jancis Robinson indicates an inside report or a report seen, from a producer, Michael Schmelzer owner of Monte Bernardi Panzano, ’s performance of 2009 in Chianti. Document, also a conversion to biodynamic ongoing business. Read here
Sassicaia Super Stuff
Maybe you will not be terribly fashionable as it once was, but still powerful media, especially in the American environment, the appeal of a legendary wine as Bolgheri Sassicaia Tenuta San Guido of the Marquis Incisa della Rocchetta. Witness the long article, signed by the Director of the Quarterly Review of Wines Richard L. Elias, published on the website of the magazine, which defines a Sassicaia Super stuff … Read here
Report from Puglia
Another magazine of the scene, the Palate Press online wine magazine, with an article a bit ’schematic, signed by Becky Sue Epstein, dedicated to wines and their descriptions of Puglia. Long time, but you could do more to explain the specificity of this wonderful land of wine to Americans! Read here
Pinot Grigio: always in fashion in the States!
Not to mention set and is always in vogue in the United States, the fashion of Pinot Grigio, or conjugate Italian version of the New World, where he became Pinot gris, taking a markedly different style and features. This is demonstrated clearly in two articles published a few days on American newspapers, the first, where it is termed “the most popular white-wine import from Italy, and in many ways the perfect wine for spring” (or “the most popular Italian white wine, in many cases the perfect spring wine “), signed by Paul Gregutt, Seattle Times published on online focused on Pinot gris in America – read here – the second, by Gregory Dal Piaz, the website Snooth, set on a comparison between the two different sources and types of wine, the Pinot Grigio Italian who writes, “tends to be a fresh wine, lively, medium bodied, with a style due to the colder climates of northern Italy from where comes” , Pinot gris from Oregon, or Australia, where “the body takes precedence over the freshness and acidity, with aromas of tropical fruit and spicy hints. Pinot grigio / gris for everyone really! Read here
Italian wine: it grows in India
Exploring new markets is the watchword in the world of Italian wine and faraway places where once the idea of being able to sell wine would have appeared extravagant, are added to the map of our export products. It happens so read on wine magazine Sommelier India, a company can organize a Venetian wine tasting event on Indian soil, and that participants can observe for example that “although the wine is not part of Indian tradition, I believe that the Indians are increasingly interested in wine and that will always be more fans enjoying the pleasure of a good glass of wine with a good meal. ” And ‘this globalization that I like! Read here
Wines to be rediscovered: the Crova
It ‘truly commendable, 24 Wine Blog, a commitment that the sommelier Cosimo Ricciuto dedication in presenting wines and grape escape anonymity. Today, as he writes, comes “Very hard to find Wines, a small Vino24 new book that will aim to have some grapes now completely forgotten, yet really become unavailable ….” Scene today, a virtual wine practically the Crova “an ancient vine, planted by Benedictine monks in the Middle Ages and is mentioned by Bramieri in 1818 as an autochthonous origin Apennine near Bobbio in Piacenza Province of Piacenza, Average Trebbia Valley. For the series, the wine is also the culture and delight of discovery … Read here
Cascina Monfortino and France compared
From a virtual wine, absolutely unknown, a wine, or rather two, legendary: Barolo Cascina France and Monfortino company Giacomo Conterno. Writes with his usual skill, passion, direct knowledge and not hearsay, the New York Times, here, and on his blog The Pour, which has become part of the renewed Diner’s Journal blog, the critic of the famous newspaper Eric Asimov New Yorker, describing a dizzying vertical, back until 1978. Read here
Barolo and Barbaresco 1985: 25 years after
Different music and conviction instead of Dal Piaz (a bit ‘too severe, because the 2005 wines will have long life and have unsuspected resources) in another article, also on Snooth dedicated to a retrospective of Barbaresco and Barolo large (but not great) year 1985 which asks: “Is it a first class vintage? Probably not, But It’s firmly at the top of the second tier, though,” or “harvest of primary value, probably not, but far from absolute quality. ” Read here
Old and New World wine: the difference lies in the terroir
Precise and concise, the Times online, explanation, signed by Jane MacQuitty, differences, basic and deep, ch exist between wines from the Old and New World: almost everything, lies in the terroir, the land and in the knowledge the role the origin of the wine, the geological composition of soils, have in determining their character. Read here
Nebbiolo four major mountain to turn the day
Partly Giuliani his post on the website Lavinium dedicated to wines of Valtellina Arpepe aka Pelizzatti Perego. Special wines that will provide an experience that would enable a crooked game day to turn in positive … Read here
Best Wines under five pounds is a lot of Italy
A good number of Italian wines were selected by British wine writer Jane MacQuitty in an article published on Times Online dedicated to the choice of 30 red wines of good quality from the price, very appealing, under five pounds. The types are those that are easy to predict: Chianti and Chianti Classico, Valpolicella, Nero d’Avola, Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, Primitivo del Salento, Barbera d’Asti. Read here
Read more about Sicily and its wines
Should be welcomed with pleasure the birth of a new comprehensive website that will promote the image and knowledge of Sicily and its wines. Promoted Regional Institute of Vine and Wine Vitevinonews created a Web site that will deal with the Sicilian wine production to 360 degrees. Among the first articles intervention of Antonio Di Giovanni dedicated to “Roar of the natives.” Wish you every success in this new portal. Visit it here
Sustainability of wine in the U.S.
Increasingly topical and ‘increasingly central to current U.S. debate on so-called “sustainability” of wines, or a production that has less disruptive effects on the environment and which meets the criteria of naturalness. Bears witness, on his The Gray Market Report, the wine writer W. Blake Gray, who in a week devoted three posts to the topic, saying he “strongly believe in the concept of sustainable agriculture” and “I think we have a place in the wine industry plan, as an alternative to ‘ organic or biodynamic, “which, he said, creates problems, because” organic certification is too rigid and does not allow exceptions even in exceptional circumstances. ” Read here
Wine, an investment that works!
Still dall’edizione online Decanter very encouraging news. In a chronicle of Maggie Rosen said that according to a study by two researchers at the University of Freiburg, include an investment focused on wine in a portfolio of investments reduces risk and increases the chances of those good results, especially at a time economic crisis. Read here
Vertical Solaia at Vinitaly
Pending any changes proposed by Peretti Vinitaly continues to be that big thing in which we organize conferences, presentations and tastings. This year one of the most important was undoubtedly the portrait of six vintages of the floor of the Marchesi Antinori, cleverly presented as the event not be missed. But hype aside, it is worthwhile to participate and how the wines were mostly older (78, 88 and 1994)? Recounts it very well, with moderate enthusiasm, without exaltation or prejudice on the website Lavinium Alessandro Franceschini, sommelier and journalist. Read here
High plant density is always high quality?
Excellent speech unsigned Wine Blog copyright, signed by the two curators of the Espresso guide, friends and Rizzari Fabio Ernesto Gentili, on the density of plants per hectare, now in the second half from an eighties ” mouth / panacea “, a must for anyone aspiring to produce high quality wines. And so “away then the planting of vineyards at 8,000, 10,000, 12,000 plants per hectare. And this regardless of climatic and historical characteristics of the area, Val d’Aosta in Caltanissetta. And later “Then when we were resigned to waiting for the exploit of the most daring experimenters, perhaps capable of planting 700,000 trees per hectare, someone timidly pointed out that the slavish application of a theoretical framework, not mechanically meditated but declined in real , would not have improved with mathematical certainty. And so it is slowly returning to rethink density, falling to levels more in line with the Code of Civil Procedure. ” The ironic conclusion is impeccable but at the same time: “It is a mantra to recite before going to bed. For example: high density of equal quality: Who said that? Use the same high quality barrel: who ’s said? double passage in barrique equal quality: Who said that? fermentation and long maceration 14 years in the same high quality earthenware jars: Who said that? Use of traditional grapes equal quality: Who said that? mining wealth equal quality: Who said that? mature sugar with equal high quality phenolic maturity: Who said that? “. Read here
Paleo vertical
We return to wine drinking, their characteristics and their ability to have a personal style with the story, the work of Andrea Petrini Blog Paths wine, vertical, 2000-2007, the Bolgheri Paleo Macchiole of “changed time distorting what was once a “simple” blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc, with the choice, from 2001, to work only on the Cabernet Franc grapes. Read here
By Giacomo Conterno Cascina Francia
More music, another story, another link with the terroir, with the exciting story, made by an American, Gregory Dal Piaz, the wines of the Langa deeply loves and knows, the excellent American website Snooth, a tremendous vertical 1971 to 2005, Barolo Giacomo Conterno Cascina France, called “one of the world’s great wines.” Gregory writes: “It is not simply about a grape and a winemaker. The greatest wines tell you so much more: They speak of a place and a time, and with France Cascina That message comes through in a remarkably clear and Obvious way. These The wines are great and you Encourage Them to try if and when you can. “ Which translated means “it is not just a vineyard and a wine producer. The greatest wines tell you much more: they reveal a sense of space and time, a message that the Cascina France arrives in a clear-cut. They are great wines that invite you to prove when and where you can. Read here
Barbaresco as mood
Beautiful and memorable, the definition of Barbaresco gives a nice post dedicated to a visit to Cascina delle Rose in Barbaresco and a dialogue with producer Jane Rizzoli, the wine blogger Maria Grazia Veronese Melegari Gently his blog.
It says “Barbaresco is a mood: homesick for the land and force of hands.” What say? Read here
Monica di Sardegna be rediscovered
Continue the journey through the lesser known grape varieties proposed by Cosimo Ricciuto Blog Vino24. This week is the scene of Monica di Sardegna, which are reconstructed history, characteristics, presence on the island and brought the taste of a wine that is an expression. Read here
Red wine anti-stroke
The relationship between wine and health, or rather a fair assessment of the benefits to our health conscious and that moderate consumption of wine in adults, favors continues to be a central theme in the discussions held at international sites and blogs. As reported in the Natural Theatre website – read here – “Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore in the U.S., a study published in the journal Experimental Neurology” argue that “red wine is a valuable ally against brain damage ictus caused “and thanks to resveratrol, which contains” the nectar of Bacchus could reduce long-term damage caused to the brain ischemic ictus up to 40%. More details in English, in the Daily on-line signature Fiona MacRae, reported as the second researcher Sylvain Doré, even “Amounts of resveratrol small, Which Is Also Found in Raspberries, blueberries, cranberries and peanuts, Could Be Protective “but that” stroke experts say That Can Protect Against Alcohol while one kind of stroke, even small Amounts May raise the risk of the other “, in short, that while wine consumption protects against the risk of a type of stroke It could, however, increase the risk of other types …. Read here
Still on Wine and Health
On the same theme of the relationship between wine consumption and health should be reported, published on the website Examiner.com American, an article which the expert nutritionist and nutritionist Joy Bauer (visit his website here) “regularly drinking wine in moderation is not only OK, Actually it’s good for you and can help you to Prevent Catastrophic Various illnesses, from cancer to Numerous types of Various forms of heart disease. “ How not to agree with the beautiful doctor in the U.S. even if an article – see here – recently published by Corriere della Sera, written by Vera Martinella Veronesi Foundation, speaks of “the link between high consumption of alcohol, the risk cancer and premature aging of cells. The result is the shortening of telomeres, or the terminal regions of chromosomes that govern cell life? Read here
Wine quality: objective or subjective?
Changing subject completely, but stay in the States, I invite you to read carefully the long, detailed, analytical post on his blog published by wine writer Steve Heimoff California, dedicated to a central question in the analysis and discussion on wine, or that the quality constitutes an objective or subjective. With a very personal and thoughtful approach that borders on art and philosophy, American colleague argues that “What we Collectively identify as” quality “may be only a Majority preference, based on habit, reinforced by peer groups, and enshrined by Tastemakers. We Seem to be living in An Era of Post-Truth politics, In Which Nothing Is Real, Nothing Can Be Proved or disproved, all claims are to be Taken Equally as valid, and you can believe in anything you want – not Necessarily Because it makes sense, But Because it appeals to you Emotionally and viscerally. According to him, in short, which “might represent the preference of a majority, and since we live” in an age where nothing is real, nothing can be proved or disproved, everything can be equally valid and you can believe in that not necessarily because we want this to have meaning, but because the thing you like emotionally and viscerally. So if you like it or de gustibus, as the Latins would say … Read here
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