Filippo Gamba reliably produces top-class wines. His two interpretations of the Terreni Bianchi - from white, i.e. chalky soil - on the western foothills of the Colli Euganei are excellent examples of this. The white version is taut, straightforward and profound and the same can be said of the f...
Merlot. Purely varietal, too. We understand that there are people who simply click on to the next wine. And we don't want to be missionaries and take up the cudgels in favour of Merlot, it's just that Davide Spillare makes a truly fantastic wine from it. We do not know whether this is due to the ...
Data sheet
Grape variety: Cabernet Franc and Merlot
Vineyard: at the foot of the Colli Euganei; volcanic soils
Harvest: by hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, 2 weeks on the skins
Ageing: 14 months in cement, a small batch of Cabernet Franc was aged in wooden barrels
Filtration: no
S...
The démodé is- unlike the name suggests- an experiment that Massimiliano Lanza von Pruneto believes that it is currently even closer to the beginning than at the end point. This may be so and lets a lot expect for the future, but you can already state that the start has been successful.
The exp...