Italian Wine
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From Here to Eternity: Tenuta Licinia Recent Releases
The soft-spoken James Marshall Lockyer, winemaker of Tuscany’s Tenuta Licinia, would likely balk at the Iron Maiden reference of today’s title, but as you’ll see in a few minutes, the concept of eternal distance feels apt when tasting through his wines, because they have finishes…
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crowd pleaser wines, elegant wines, Italian Wine, kick-ass wines, on the road, overachiever wines, sexy wines, wine reviewPostcard From Sannio, Part 2: Aglianico del Taburno
This is part two of a three-part series covering my media jaunt last year to Sannio, in Italy’s southern region of Campania. For part one, we focused on the region’s signature white (Falanghina). Today, we’re going to highlight Sannio’s signature red, Aglianico del Taburno. And…
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crowd pleaser wines, elegant wines, Italian Wine, kick-ass wines, on the road, sexy wines, wine reviewPostcard From Sannio, Part 1: Falanghina del Sannio
Today we’ve got the first in a three-parter covering my media jaunt last year to Sannio, an important but still relatively under-the-radar winegrowing region in Italy’s Campania area. [ Before we get started, however, I want to dedicate a moment of appreciation for one of…
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Out Of Time In Piedmont (Scarpa Recent Releases)
Despite the fact that I have content to write up that spans more than a year of travel (including my takes on the wine scene in Israel, the southern Rhone, and Romagna), the thing that’s been rattling around in my brain and not letting the…
