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Montefalco is one of the most exciting wine varieties in Central Italy. Which is very important due to two excellent grape varieties, which are practically planted exclusively within its municipal boundaries: the red sagrantino and the white Trebbiano spoletino. Francesco Mariani and Andrea Mattioli from the Raina Keltern winery, launched in 2001, an impressive range of profound, lively and substantial wines.

Sgavetta is a variety that can only be found around Modena and Reggio Emilia. It was documented for the first time in the late 19th century and always described positively in the few records that are available about it. In 1970 there were at least 170 hectares of vineyards with her, but in 2010 it was only 15 and much more (rather less) it should not be today. Why it suddenly went downhill so steeply has its reason in the small, very compact grapes that can only be read by hand - an eminent ...

In order to dig away the water immediately and malignant assumptions - the rather unhappily chosen name Primitivo is not derived from a supposedly banal taste of the grape variety, but from the fact that it previously drives out (great) as others blooms, turns and turns ripening. Mimmo Caragnano from Pantun reads the grapes for his flagship, for example in the last week of August and the Skietto (due to the cooler conditions) in the first week of September.

Thomas Niedermayr takes his own way. Piwis, mushroom -resistant grape varieties, such as Bronner, Solaris and Souvignier Gris, grow around his farm in Eppan. Carefully, with space for diversity, he accompanies his wines outside and inside and gives them their individually required time. Through observation, experience and sensitivity, harmonious and complex rarities are created.

How good is Sangiovese all alone? Almost the Beatles without George Harrison, Lionel Messi without Sergio Busquets or Sherlock Holmes without a doctor Watson. So very good. But not quite as well as he is with Canaiolo, which is always in the background. Canaiolo smoothes the edges of the Sangiovese, if his acid becomes too demanding, gives it energy when he weakens and cushions his body when it is too thin.

Gianluca is now one of the most interesting (in the positive sense of the word) and the best winemakers of Emilia. Together with his wife Simona, also agricultural scientist and responsible for the agricultural production of the 16 hectare farm in Gargallo, he started the Terrevive project at the end of the 2000s. The management has been based on biodynamic principles since the beginning, with Gianluca and Simona traditionally prefer the term.

The highest vineyard in Europe is located at 1368 meters in the Andalusian Alpujarras. He is managed by Barranco Oscuro. The skilled, the height of tribute "1368“Consists of Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Garnacha and, in our opinion, is one of the most exciting, complex, vital and best red wines in the country. The Valenzuela vineyards are consistently over 1200 meters, which sets up consequences ...

The skin of the Malvasia di Candia aromatica is as thick as that of a hippo and that's why the grape variety also has tannins like a good barolo. Her original homeland should probably be Crete, from where she landed in the hills around Piacenza and Parma about the Venice's intermediate station (which was called Crete at the time of the Serevublic Candia). She has the significant synonym Malvasia a Sapore di Moscato, in German "Malvasia with the taste of Moscato", which allows absolutely justi...

Vermentino is the large white grape variety of the Italian west coast. Their origins are difficult to determine in the eventful time-runs on the Mediterranean and the always changing Mediterranean ownership and trade conditions. Some (the Iberers) suspect that the variety has its actually home in Spain, others (the Italians) believe that Vermentino comes from Tuscany or Liguria. The demarcation to other grape varieties is similarly sensitive. Over centuries, it was assumed that Vermentino, th...

Our winemakers and wines rarely receive awards. This is very important because they never actually take part in any competitions.So there is a crucial lack of golden cups, silver stars, red glasses and of course 100 points. But at least once a year some of them get a snail. This usually happens in early October. Then the annual Slovine Guide appears, in which part of the Vinonudo winemakers are also discussed and some of them to Vignaioli slow - slow winegrowers and some of their wines are vi...

In recent years, the area around the Neusiedler See has developed into a hotspot in the natural wine world. One that contributes to this with his wines is Alex Koppitsch from Neusiedl am See. Terroir in front of the grape variety, work with nature, handcrafted minimalism instead of manipulative intervention: these are the maxims according to which Alex is going. This is how his elegantly puristic wines are created as an expression of origin!Together with the winemaker, we tast the new vintages!

Timorasso is an old variety and yet a new phenomenon. After the reblaus campaign, it was forgotten a little, as it was further cultivated in a few selected locations. Especially in theColli Tortonesi, a region, which is still deeply rural and the home of Fausto Coppi, the greatest of all large Campionissimi, which Italy's cycling world produced, ignoring the ignoring and continued to sit on the idiosyncratic variety. In 1929, for exampleCarlo and Clementina Ricci Her vineyards in San Leto wit...