Italian Wine
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Puzzle Pieces (Exploring The Quality Pyramid At MyNameIsBarbera.com)
One of the more endearingly maddening things about European wine classifications is that they try to lump location, in aspects that are increasingly specific, and “quality,” in ways that are often nebulous. Over at MyNameIsBarbera.com, I take this dichotomy head-on, in my dime-store-philosphical way (not…
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Cab-Francophile (An Arcanum Retrospective In Tuscany)
It takes some serious chutzpah to pour your super-Tuscan red, sans hesitation, alongside Le Macchiole Paleo, Ornellaia, and Sassicai. Now, you might expect that kind of faccia tosta from the Italians, but in this case it came from Frenchman veteran vigneron Pierre Seillan who, alonf…
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And You Were Expecting What, Exactly? (Lugana Highlights From L’Anteprima Lazise 2016)
Back in March (yeah, yeah, I know…) I attended, as a media guest, the 2016 edition of the well-executed but unfortunately-named L’Anteprima Lazise (seriously… how many of you knew that was a town near Lake Garda in N. Italy?). The event marked the first time…
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Okay, So You Knew This Was Coming (Italian Red Wine Grapes For Fix.com)
In what will come as a surprise to no one, Fix.com has published the companion piece to my Italian White Wine Grapes article, The Grapes Behind Italian Red Wines. That one definitely fits right into the saw-it-coming-from-a-mile-away-bro category. Having said that, I think that the…
