The Rét originates from Alexander Koppitsch's Easy-Drinking-Series, which Koppitsch aficionados still remember under the name "authentic wines". Rét is Hungarian and means grassland, which in turn is a reference to the fact that cattle used to graze where Zweigelt and St. Laurent grow today.
The...
Hungarian can even be simple. Rosza just means pink. No sz at the beginning and no three ö and four accents above the letters.
Neszider is not really difficult either. It means Neusiedl am See, the home of Alexander and Maria Koppitsch. Neusiedl belonged to Hungary until 1921, and in honour of th...
Data sheet
Vineyard: Seefeld
Grape varieties: Grüner Veltliner 40%, Pinot Blanc 40%, Sauvignon Blanc 20%
Plant protection: only sulphur, copper and plant- or animal-based preparations, not certified
Harvest: by hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts
Ageing: in steel tanks and used wooden ...
Cupramontana is white wine country. At 500 metres above sea level and in the shadow of Apennine peaks up to 1500 metres high, this is hardly surprising. And yet in the capital of Marchegian wine, there is a tradition of giving a voice to short-macerated and fresh red wines alongside weighty white...
Corrado Dottori (La Distesa) says: "An old vineyard. The salt and light of San Michele. A long dialogue with the air. The passing of time. This is the Gli Eremi."
You could leave it at these words.
However, a few additional explanatory words wouldn't hurt. San Michele is the part of Cupramontana...
A rosé in response to social conditions and political scaremongering. "At a time when concepts of purity, origin and identity are constantly being conjured up, we wanted to blend and unite the skins of our different grape varieties." Corrado Dottori sets an example. At the same time, however, he ...
"Nur" means light - in Arabic.
Corrado Dottori from La Distesa had a decidedly Mediterranean wine in mind when he conceived Nur. A wine with roots that go back a long way, without added sulphites.
The vineyards for this are located in San Michele, the Grand Cru of Cupramontana. The subsoil is ba...
Terre Silvate, says Corrado Dottori, is the wine that represents La Distesa like no other. A lively, purist and animating Verdicchio that is much more than just a basic wine.
It comes from vineyards in three different communes in the old Verdicchio metropolis of Castelli di Jesi. None of them is...
Heydi Bonanini's rosé was not a planned wine. It was created in response to a hailstorm that fell right over his Canaiolo vineyard in 2016 and wiped out his entire harvest in a matter of minutes. Thrown back to his other two red varieties, Bonamico and Moscato Rosso, he decided to leave the two ...
Data sheet
Grape variety: Bonamico, Moscato Rosso
Vineyard: Sandstone, 55-year-old vines
Harvest: By hand
Fermentation: Spontaneous | wild yeasts, first fermentation in stainless steel
Ageing: Rifermentato. Secondary fermentation and ageing in the bottle
Filtration: no
SO₂: unsulphurised
Alcohol...
Samuele Bonanini is one of the few winegrowers who still dedicate themselves to the vines on the steep slopes of the Cinque Terre. On small micro-parcels held up by stone walls and connected by ropes, he works on cultivation in the truest sense of the word. The best example of this is his "Cinque...
In addition to the Le Trame, her milestone, Giovanna Morganti also covers the "5", whose name does not owe any negative assessment by school chiefs, but simply the house number of her winery. The foundation is the same as for the Le Trame and the fabric from which the wine is made of the wine is ...
The Le Trame has been showing for a good two decades in which direction in the Chianti. To speak to Jonathan Nossiter's words, he is "Liquid Memory". But he is also a bridge into the future, a wine that brings together the history of a style (Chianti) and the handwriting of a great winemaker. Gio...
With the location of La Querciola (small oak), everything started on Massa Vecchia, everything from Francesca Sfondrini, who has long since rose to cult status. Located in the Colline Metallifere striking shadow in the Alta Maremma, her parents, Fabrizio Niccolaini and Patrizia Bartolini, there i...