Garganega is a variety that only produces good results if it is grown in a suitable terroir (limestone, volcanic rock, cool influences) and certain viticultural measures are observed. The decisive factor here is a reasonable grape yield that is as far away as possible from five figures per hectar...
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...
Antonio Perrino is a garage winemaker. He was one even before the term was taken up in Bordeaux, stripped of its actual meaning and used to formulate a marketing idea and communication strategy, which was then implemented - consistently as always in Bordeaux.
These ideas and strategies passed Per...
The Tonsur originates on the other side of the Eisack Valley, in a vineyard on the Ritten, the local mountain of the people of Bolzano. The vineyard is called Oberplatten. However, as Martin Gojer's wines are labelled as IGT or simply as Vino Bianco, he is not allowed to put the vineyard name on ...
Davide Spillare's trump card is Garganega. He is now dedicating a four-part series to the great white variety of northern Veneto. Many consumers and winegrowers have only realised in recent years that this is a great variety, after Garganega had previously experienced an unparalleled decline in q...
Derthona is the old name for Tortona, the main town in the Colli Tortonesi, which form a bridge between southern Piedmont and Lombardy. Costo Vescovato, where Daniele owns his vineyards, is characterised by a slightly hilly topography with moderately steep slopes, mainly based on marl and pelite ...
The Mont Blanc (der Weiße Berg) is in Neusiedl. At least if Jörg Bretz has his way. A few years ago, he decided to give his cuvée of Grüner Veltliner and Pinot Blanc the name Weißer Berg, although we still don't know why he did so (we suspect it's because of the colour of the soil, but we'll find...
"We can make even more from Pinot Blanc than from Chardonnay," says Jörg Bretz. In order to achieve more, Jörg Bretz follows a few principles that no other winegrower we know of in Austria pursues with the same rigour.
In short, they can be summarised as follows: a lot of manual work, meticulous...
The Biancoviola is the white answer to the red Moretto. It consists of three different grape varieties from three vineyards located far apart from each other. The grapes for the Grillo ripen in the inland hills around Segesta, the Grecanico vines are rooted in the wild west of Sicily, while the C...
The quintessence of Davide's endeavours. The grapes for the Rugoli Vecchie Vigne come from a vineyard where Garganega vines have been rooted for over 60 years. The vines are as thick as tree trunks, deeply anchored in volcanic basalt and fairly resistant to potential fungal diseases.
Small, full...
Riesling, but so much more: "planted, picked, crushed and bottled with our own hands. With love, family and friends, with fresh air and lots of fun." That's what Olympia and Hannes from the roterfaden winery say.
And that's actually enough.
But we'll add a few more sentences. Quite simply bec...
Grüner Veltliner is not a monopoly variety of Lower Austria. In fact, it never has been. There are dozens of proofs to the contrary and Georg Schmelzer's interpretation of the grape variety is one of them.
Unlike what we are used to, it does not grow on primary rock and not even on limestone, bu...
Cinzia Pelazza and Eugenio Bocchino's real home is Barolo, where they produce some of the best Nebbiolos in Piedmont. However, their hearts have also been beating for many years for the wild, dry landscape of Gallura in north-east Sardinia, which is criss-crossed by huge rocks and deep blue bays....
Egesta is one of the most original and best white wines in Sicily. It is made from 100% white Grillo, a variety that is associated with Sicily more than almost any other, but which apparently does not originate from the island. It was probably first planted in Sicily after the phylloxera campaign...