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 ...
Vasche, to which Luca Virgilio's Montepulciano pays tribute, are ancient basins that were carved into the rocks around Pietranico thousands of years ago to crush grapes with feet. Although Luca does not do this, he is aware of the long history of viticulture around his winery, which was complete...
The Rosso della Gobba from Francesco Mariani combines Sagrantino, Sangiovese and Montepulciano, the three great red grape varieties of central Italy, to produce a pleasant, inviting red table wine.
Francesco favours finesse and elegance over substance in the Rosso della Gobba. As always, the wo...
Raina: Montefalco Sagrantino Docg "Campo di Raina" 2017
Wein
€27,90
In the introduction to her book Natural Wine, which is well worth reading, Alice Feiring describes the difficulties of her first attempts at vinification: Little seems clear, with the exception of the choice of grape variety - unusually for an American, she was determined to make her debut with S...
Viticulture also has to do with responsibility. This applies equally to winegrowers and consumers. The fact that, for example, 60% or, in other figures, 90000000 kilos of continental fungicides are used on Europe's vineyards, even though only 5% of agricultural land is planted with vines, should ...
The two Teroldego Morei and Sgarzon are the fruits of years of biodynamic vineyard work in two individual vineyards that are particularly suitable for this grape variety. Elisabetta Foradori also spent years working with the Spanish Tinajas before bottling the wines vinified in them. It is not th...
Monte Dall'ora: Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore Saustò 2018
Wein
€29,90
The grapes for the Ripasso Saustò grow on the ridge of a hill above Castelrotto that stretches from south to east. The soils here are limestone-dominated and the grape varieties are typical of the area: Corvina sets the tone, complemented by Corvinone, Rondinella, Molinara and Oseleta. The harves...
The most traditional of all Argentinian cuvées. Malbec is the much better known part of it: The variety originally comes from Bordeaux, where it is now only found sporadically due to its sensitivity to climatic caprices. It is bottled somewhat more frequently in neighbouring Cahors. However, its ...
data sheet
Grape variety: Teran
Vineyard: Terra Rossa
reading: By hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | Wild yeast, 15 days of mash fermentation
expansion: 7 years in 1500 liters of wooden barrels, 48 months in the bottle
Filtration: no
SO₂: 19 mg/l
Alcohol content: 12 % vol
Closure: Nat...
Cuvée made from Nerello Mascalese (80%) and Grenache (20%). The first grape variety is obvious, the second comes as something of a surprise. Grenache can be found in many Italian wine-growing regions, but hardly ever under its original name: In Sardinia it is called Cannonau (and is by far the mo...
Whether Blaufränkisch in Austria or Lemberger in Germany: the grape variety, which probably originated in the area of Lemberg pri Šmarju in the former Lower Styria in what is now Slovenia, has enormous potential and is also a big hit in Württemberg. The calcareous soils there favour the grape var...
The upper part of the Lange Ohn vineyard in Neusiedl provides the chalky base for HP Harrer's Blaufränkisch, which is characterised by cool westerly winds. The rest is made up of small, healthy berries and a precise winemaker's signature, which can be roughly summarised under the keywords: biodyn...
A few decades ago, Coste della Sesia still had a few hundred hectares of vines, but today there are a whole thirty. The reason for this was not the quality of the wines, which have been repeatedly praised in the annals of local viticulture since the 14th century, but the general rural exodus that...
Silvio Messana once said that his Chianti Classico 2011 represented a personal reference point for his involvement with the great wine style of the region. He recognised in it what he had always associated with a Chianti Classico - elegance, balance, slenderness, length, verticality and delicate ...