Red wines

Bardolino is located on the south-east shore of Lake Garda. In the hierarchy of Italian wine regions, it tends to be at the lower end. This was not always the case. There were times when the wines of the region were in no way inferior to those of Valpolicella. But then, at some point towards the ...

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Lasupperiora bridges the gap between the delicacy and subtle fruit flavours of Soracuna - Villa Calicantus' entry-level wine - and the substance and depth of Avresir, the winery's red flagship. Its vines, planted in 2010, are rooted in stony, chalky terrain in the villa's highest vineyard. Daniel...

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‘As long as they pour you water on the Via Emilia - the road that leads from Milan to Rimini - you are in Emilia, but as soon as they give you wine to drink, you are in Romagna (Antonio Baldini).’ And not just any wine, but Sangiovese, the red queen of Italian grape varieties, the origin of which...

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Data sheet Grape variety: 12 different grape varieties from very old vines Vineyard: Vineyard in Castelvetro di Modena Harvest: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts + natural secondary fermentation in the bottle Ageing: First in ceramic, then in the bottle  Filtration: no SO₂: < 25m...

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Data sheet Grape variety: Regent Vineyard: Keuper Harvest: By hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, no temperature control, 18 days on the skins Ageing: in 500 litre barrels and used barriques Filtration: no SO₂: unsulphurised Alcohol content: 12.5% vol. Closure: Natural cork Drinking tem...

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Le Pretelle is a single position based on limestone and pebbles with old sagrantine life, from which Francesco Mariani gets the quintessence of what the grape variety has to offer. And that's a lot. Sagrantino lacks nothing - if you read it at the right time and this is generally rarely before m...

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Carmenère actually comes from Bordeaux. For a long time, the red grape variety challenged Cabernet Sauvignon for pole position there, before it disappeared completely from the vineyards of the French noble region as a consequence of the invasion of grapes and the difficulty of finding suitable r...

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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...

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You can only take your hat off to Niki Moser. He and his team cultivate 24 hectares in Rohrendorf in the Kremstal using biodynamic methods, with a further 27 hectares 150 kilometres further south in Apetlon, in the Pannonian Plain. The effort involved is enormous, but now - after well over a deca...

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Silvio Messana planted the variety in his vineyards at the beginning of his winemaking career and at the height of the Cabernet boom (in addition to an existing variety that his father had planted). He wanted to use it to spice up his Chianti, but quickly realised that it would undermine his own ...

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Rebsorte: Zweigelt Weingarten: Im südlichen Weinviertel Lese: Per Hand Vergärung: spontan | wilde Hefen | ohne Temperaturkontrolle Ausbau: Im Edelstahltank Filtration: Nein SO₂: < 25mg/l Alkoholgehalt: 13% vol. Verschluss: Kork Trinktemperatur: 10-12 °C Perfekte Trinkreife: ab sofo...

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Data sheet Grape variety: Nebbiolo Plant protection: only sulphur, copper and plant or animal-based preparations, not certified  Vineyard: single vineyard site Cavazucchi. Soil with a high iron and manganese content, covered by a layer of marine sand Harvest: by hand  Fermentation: spontaneous |...

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Data sheet Grape variety: Nero d'Avola Vineyard: loamy-clayey Harvest: by hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, eight-day skin contact  Ageing: in steel tanks Filtration: no SO₂: < 50 mg/l Alcohol content: 13.5% vol. Closure: Natural cork Drinking temperature: 15-17 °C Perfect drinking...

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Data sheet Grape variety: Lemberger (Blaufränkisch) Vineyard: Yellow sandstone Harvest: By hand Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts, no temperature control, 32 days on the skins Ageing: in 500 litre barrels, 18 months on the lees Filtration: no SO₂: unsulphurised Alcohol content: 12.5% vol. C...

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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...

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