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Comment on The Italian disease by Helmut O. Knall

Helmut O. Knall — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:08:30 +0000

I completely agree with Wojcech. My article, I wrote a month or so ago, will be published before Vinitaly and tells nearly the same.
I’m visiting these events since they exist. And I always told the wineries and the consorzii that it doesn’t make sense to write about a wine without the most famous producers.
So, I did (and paid) winery visits by myself and wrote also about the “stars”. With the effect, I didn’t get an invitation to the event the following year, because I wrote also about wineries, who didn’t finance the journalists trips. This is crazy.
Because my readres will not understand, why I write an article on Amarone without Quintarelli, Dal Forno, Masi or Allegrini, they don’t understand, why one is writing a piece on Piemonte missing Altare, Gaja or Mascarello and they don’t even care, why the well known names – that made Chianti, Nobile or Brunello famous – are missing in my article. They want to know – and ask me how the wines are. That’s the point, nothing else.
If the famous wineries are not in the consorzio, bring them in – or bring there wines to the event. The region – and the name of the wine needs it. And we, as the multiplcatos need it, too. Nobody cares on “inner circle circumstances”.

Comment on A statistical Chianti by Csaba Jónás

Csaba Jónás — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:46:46 +0000

This is great news for diehard Sangiovese-fans like myself but do you think that the ‘average’ international customer whose purchase power is the driving force behind the rise of Chianti will also like this ‘demerlotized’ style?

Comment on Chianti 2009: moving on by Joseph Di Blasi

Joseph Di Blasi — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:44:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I do love the Chiant’s of Coralia Pignatelli della Leonessa – my favorite!

Cheers

Comment on The Italian disease by Vino al Vino

Vino al Vino — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:30:14 +0000

[...] con ogni probabilità scriverò ancora, Montalcino. Dapprima la scelta disinvolta del Consorzio, criticata dal collega polacco Wojciech Bońkowski e da numerosi wine writer, di consentire ad alcuni happy few di poter degustare in tutta [...]

Comment on The Italian disease by Mario Crosta

Mario Crosta — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:12:34 +0000

Bomba! http://www.winesurf.it/index.php?file=onenews&form_id_notizia=1345