Criante, a natural wine producer from Sicily
Website: https://www.criante.it/ Criante is a natural wine producer based in Alcamo, western Sicily. The Adragane family have a mixed farm,
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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Website: https://www.rabascowinery.com/en/home-en-2/ Rabasco is an impressive natural wine producer in Abruzzo, which is run by Iole Rabasco. She was previously
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Cantina Terlarno and Produttori del Barbaresco: an amazing dinner with two of the world’s great cooperative wineries, tasting back to the 1960s
I was very happy to attend this dinner! Held by the excellent Fine + Rare at Wiltons, the evening featured
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Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
Santuvario is a small natural wine producer based in the town of Borgomanero in Alto Piemonte, at the foot of
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Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy
I’ve been to a lot of wine regions around the world, but I’m yet to visit the scenic Oltrepò Pavese
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Arnaldo Rivera, a top tier of wines from the overperforming Terre del Barolo cooperative
Websites: https://terredelbarolo.com/en/ https://arnaldorivera.com/en/ The Terre del Barolo cooperative was founded in 1958 in Castiglione. First vintage was 1959, and today
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Highlights: Stesso Stesso Beulah Violetta Rosso 2024 Umbria, Italy
A lovely low-intervention red from Umbria. Stesso Stesso Beulah Violetta Rosso 2024 Umbria, Italy12.5% alcohol. Stesso Stesso is the winemaking
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Restaurants: Heard Burger, Soho, with some lovely Lambrusco Sorbara
Website: https://heardburger.co.uk/ I’ve been to a few good Burger places of late. There’s the brilliant Gasoline Grill in Copenhagen, and
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Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santorini
Matteo Montone presented this seminar on sweet wines from islands, as part of the excellent Island Wines summit in Tenerife.
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Filippi: natural expressions of Soave, Italy
Filippi are based in Soave, and the property has 20 hectares of forest as well as 14 hectares of vines.
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