Nestled in the Italian Alps between the French and Swiss border lies the tiny Alpine wine making region of the Valle d’Aosta. The largest wine making fish in this smallest of vinous ponds is internationally acclaimed producer, Les Crêtes. Until recently most of this acclaim was directed at their flagship wine the Chardonnay Cuvée Bois….
Category: Italian Wine
Wines of Umbria 2018 – Tre Bicchiere Awards
A quick question for you. Do you ever wonder what you’d choose as your specialist subject if invited to be a contestant on Mastermind? Well I do. Deliberating this question has been a source of personal angst for years. However, after much soul searching I can say with absolute certainty, my specialist subject would be…
Casale del Giglio – The Kings of Lazio
Don’t tell anyone, but I have a secret crush on Casale del Giglio. A nostalgic, romantic soft-spot for the wines I first came to know as affordable local Lazio wines sold at Lo Zio d’America, my local wine store when I lived in Rome. In the following years I’d come to learn that these are…
Cervaro della Sala 2009
Name: Antinori Cervaro della Sala 2009 Grapes: 85% Chardonnay, 15% Grechetto Alchohol: 13% Classification: IGT Umbria While the world’s wine bloggers enjoy a jolly good knees up in Perugia at the #iwinetc, I thought I would pay homage to the event with a quick note on one of the very best wines of the region, Antinori’s…
Cesanese del Piglio DOCG
If Maximus drunk wine you can bet your bippy it was Cesanese del Piglio. Leave the monks their Est! Est!! Est!!! and the senate their sweet Mulsum, Casanese del Piglio is a wine for tough guys and Lazio fans. Cesanese del Affile (90% min variety in Cesanese del Piglio) is a difficult, stubborn little grape,…
Tignanello 2008
Antinori’s Tignanello 2008 reached the status of wine bling years ago. One of a handful of Italian wines (particularly Super Tuscans) set to climb in price over the next few years, out of reach for the majority of UK wine buyers as Chinese collectors and oenophiles begin to buy up Italian “status” wines. Was it only…
Abbuoto Grape
Calling all Iphone users & Italian Wine Fans – There is a really cool little app for the Iphone from Gambero Rosso whereby you can search for Italian wines by grape. The results this app produces show only the wines from wineries who are in with Gambero Rosso and by no means represents all wineries…