While Predappio Sangiovese seems to get all the media love (hey, I’m guilty!), there’s quite a bit more to the region—Forlì—that birthed Romagna’s latest potential foray into DOCG territory. During my media visit to the region last year, we braved the record-breaking Summer heat wave to sit in the presence of multiple, enormous fans and…
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“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…
Is Predappio Ready for Prime Time? (A Deep Dive Into Romagna’s Top-Tier Sangiovese Reds)
There’s a movement afoot in Italy’s Romagna to get Predappio Sangiovese—long the jewel in the crown of the region’s top reds, thanks to the diverse ochre and brown calcareous clay and yellow sand soils of its vineyards (thought to impart the wines with their distinct minerality—its own DOCG status. It’s a bit nascent for the…