The Italian disease
Absenteeism is poisoning the Italian wine industry. Producers are shamelessly taking advantage of others.
Tag Archives: Veneto
Bertani: eternal
Bertani enjoys a cult status in Valpolicella. A tasting of 1976 and 1967 Amarone shows why it’s fully justified.
Bitter raisins
Thoughts on the current condition of Amarone wine.
Anteprima Amarone 2012
67 Amarones tasted, overall showing better than expected. And as always with blind tasting, some surprises.
False alarm
A brilliant lunch in Verona, and what it says about the current economic mood.
Giuseppe Quintarelli dies
Goodbye, Giuseppe Quintarelli. You will be remembered.
Two Pieropan Soaves
I’ve already expressed – obliquely – my sympathy for Soave, perhaps Northern Italy’s most widely known white wine appellation. ‘Widely known’ is an euphemism to describe the rock-bottom image Soave […]
16 wines from Gambellara
A DOCG disaster Went to a friend’s house recently to go through a shipment of samples he received from Gambellara, an appellation from the Italian region of Veneto that was […]
Le Vigne di San Pietro I Balconi Rossi 2001
I’ve cellared this bottle since 2004, and time has been gracious to it. Today, it has shown the complexity and interest of a maturing wine: an experience that no young […]
