Italian Wine Blog Of all the blogs in all the world….. Yes another Italian wine blog has found a home on blogspot but this Italian wine blog should be a little different. In actual fact, of the thousands of blogs on wines that abound only a small percentage of them are dedicated to Italian wine….
Month: October 2007
Italian Wine Fraud
This year Italian Wine overtook French as the world’s most exported wine so it’s not surprising that the industry is riddled with con artists attempting to take a piece of the action. Italy has been on the receiving end of some of the largest wine scams ever seen with a famous recent example effecting the…
Altesino – Caparzo
Altesino – Quietly stealing Caparzo’s thunder! The awards have been coming in thick and fast over the past 10 years for the Altesino vineyards and yet this wonderful producer still seems to be largely unknown to a wine community obsessed with the American owned Banfi and Antinori. Altesino’s most famous wine, the Brunello di Montalcino…
Battle of the Dolcettos
Giacosa Dolcetto d’Alba 2006 Vs Voerzio Dolcetto Priavino 2005 Anyone who knows Italian wine will know that these two superstars of the Italian wine world are about as different as Parmigiano and Buffalo Mozzarella. One is a huge producer of world famous Barolos and Barbarescos with a massive output of 500,000 bottles a year whilst…
Wine 90 – A homage to Italian wine
Ciao, Salve, Buongiorno, Welcome welcome Welcome to the very first Wine90 blog entry. Now, it may be a little unusual for the blog to appear before the website (http://www.wine90.com/) BUT, have a heart, there are 5000 Italian wines that scored 90 or more with Parker and WS over the last 20 years and THAT is…