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Rossese is sensitive, delicate, and subtle.Its color is as transparent as contact lenses and lighter than blood. After a few years, it shifts to a rust-colored orange. It ages moderately, oxidizes easily, and requires attention. It’s understandable, then, that there are only about 80 hectares of ...

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Antonio Perrino is a garage winemaker.He was one even before the term was coined in Bordeaux, stripped of its true meaning, and turned into a marketing concept and communication strategy, which was then relentlessly implemented in Bordeaux. These ideas and strategies passed Antonio by like the ov...

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Data Sheet Grape Variety: Souvignier GrisVineyard: Located at 520 meters; loamy-calcareous terrain; deep soil with a high content of white dolomite rock.Harvest: Hand-pickedFermentation: Skin fermentation | wild yeasts | in stainless steel tanksAging: Nearly two years; partly in stainless steel,...

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Letting nature have the first and last word. This has been the guiding principle at Hof Gandberg, the winery of Thomas Niedermayr, for more than three decades. In 1991, the estate switched to organic farming, and shortly after, the focus on Piwis (fungus-resistant grape varieties) began, never t...

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That a cross between Merzling and GM 6493 (whose parents are Muskat-Ottonel and Zarya Severa) can actually produce a great wine is still somewhat of a mystery. Piwis – fungus-resistant grape varieties – are not yet highly regarded in collective perception. However, thanks to Thomas Niedermayr, t...

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Thomas Niedermayr is breaking new ground. She had already hit his father when he switched the vineyards of his winery to biological management 30 years ago and a little later with the  First Piwis - mushroom -resistant vines - best. Thomas is now doing what we think is forward -looking: he ignor...

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Data Sheet Grape Varieties: Souvignier Gris, Muscaris, Bronner, SolarisVineyard: Located at 520 meters; loamy-calcareous terrain; deep soil with a high content of white dolomite rock.Harvest: Hand-pickedFermentation: Spontaneous | wild yeastsAging: In stainless steel tanksFiltration: NoneSO₂: &l...

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Data Sheet Grape Variety: Pinot BlancVineyard:Eppan, located at 520 meters above sea level. Loamy, calcareous, deep soil with a high content of white dolomite rock.Harvest: Hand-pickedFermentation: Whole cluster pressing | wild yeasts | in stainless steel tanksAging: 8 months on the lees in neut...

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There is no shortage of animals in the world of wine. Many of them roam the vineyards, some - mostly small ones - animate the soil, while others are at home in dry stone walls. We don't know any winegrowers without dogs, but many also have horses, cats, sheep or goats at home. In Italy, there are...

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Bardolino: From Quantity to Quality Bardolino, located on the southeastern shore of Lake Garda, is often ranked lower in the hierarchy of Italian wine regions. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when the wines from this area were on par with those from Valpolicella. However, towards th...

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Bardolino, the small wine region around the town of the same name on Lake Garda, was once famous for its rosé wine - Chiaretto. It became a victim of mass tourism on its shores. Daniele Delaini from Villa calicantus has been bringing it back to its former glory for some years now, undeterred by ...

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The Lasupperiora serves as a bridge between the delicate structure and subtle fruit aromas of Soracuna—the entry-level wine from Villa Calicantus—and the substance and depth of Avresir, the estate's flagship red. Its vines, planted in 2010, thrive in the stony, calcareous soil of the highest vin...

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Soracuna – A Classic Bardolino The Soracuna is a quintessential Bardolino in the best sense. Its grapes mostly come from over 50-year-old pergolas, with roots deeply embedded in the moraine-rich soil. The grape varieties are the usual suspects of the region: Corvina, which provides fruit aromas a...

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The La Traviesa Tinto goes onto the cap of Vinos Autenticos, a Spanish wine dealer who has the wines in the program that we also had, we would primarily act with Spanish or French wines. So it is actually a dealer wine, with that only a third of the truth. The second third are winegrowers from th...

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The niche in the niche. A wine for operetta fans in the natural wine scene! At least one could guess if you get to the bottom of the face on the label. This belongs to Jeanette Macdonald, who had the music affine cinema audience romped in the 1930s and 40s - in our special case in the film Naught...

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