“Everybody has Sangiovese in their garden, basically.” As Il Conte Villa Prandone co-owner Marina De Angelis and Sales Director Luigi D’Angelo put it during an online media tasting of the estate’s releases, their home turf in Italy’s Marche is a hotbed of Sangiovese awesomeness. Since the 1950s, the De Angelis family has managed the entire…
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Cool Wines In Overly Hot Climes (Tasting Through Romagna’s Faenza)
Alllllriiiighty, folks… this will be my last feature entry on my 2023 media jaunt Romagna, this time focusing on the wines of Faenza (in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna). As cool as the wines of Romagna are, even I am kind of sick of talking about them at this point. Speaking of cool, that was…
“Big Fruit” (Exploring Romagna’s Cesena… and One of the World’s Rarest Grape Varieties)
The words that I kept hearing (during a media trip to Italy’s Romagna region in the steamy Summer of 2023) from Cesena’s winemakers were “Big Fruit.” Located just to the south of Bertinoro, along the northern edge of the region, Cesena is dominated by clay soils with yellow sands. According to those winegrowing within Cesena,…
“Burn You Like the Midday Sun, Awwwww!” (Exploring Romagna’s Bertinoro)
When I visited Celli in Italy’s Romagna, for a media tasting of some of the sub-area’s best wines, it was hot. And I don’t mean equatorial-Africa hot (I’ve been there, and it’s pretty hot). I mean more like Houston-in-early-August levels of hot. Like, 3rd ring of the 7th Circle of Hell hot. The heat wave…