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Highlights: Pietradolce Archineri Etna Rosso 2017 Sicily, Italy

March 25, 2021 jamiegoode 701 Views Sicily

Pietradolce was established in 2005 (first vintage 2009), and they have 11 hectares of vines planted in high altitude sites

March 24, 2021 jamiegoode 771 Views chianti

This is Sangiovese from Greve, Radda and Gaiole, biodynamically farmed, made by Querciabella. The Greve vineyards are sandstone and sand

How do you assess a wine like this Trebbiolo from La Stoppa? If you are a techno winemaker, you reject

March 19, 2021 Lisse Garnett 915 Views Sangiovese

Modigliana, in Italy’s Romagna region, is producing Sangiovese like you have never tasted before. The Mutiliana wines of Giorgio Melandri

Lisse Garnett reports on this Coelocanth of grape varieties. Once a major Bordeaux variety, Carménère was wiped out in the

Vintage variation is one of the facets of wine that makes it so complicated, but also so engrossing. Most wines

December 14, 2020 jamiegoode 1470 Views

Capers are the immature flowers of Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, which have been preserved in salt. This grows all

I met Jarkko Peränen a few years ago at a wine symposium in Tampere, Finland. He’s Finnish, but now lives

Sangiovese is a singular grape variety. It’s genetic heritage is half southern and half central Italian, and Italy has most

Young winemaker Manuel Pulcini grew up in his family’s vineyards and winery on the outskirts of Rome, which imprinted into