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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Italy
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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Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cantinaantonioli/?hl=en Giulia and Giorgio Antonioli came to wine as a second career: she was an archaeologist and he was
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La Biancara di Angiolino e Alessandro Maule: meet one of Italy’s most celebrated natural wine producers
Website: https://www.angiolinomaule.com/en-home Angiolino Maule is a leading figure in the Italian natural wine scene. He and his wife Rosamaria began
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Highlights: Tenuta San Guido La Difese 2024 Toscana IGT, Italy
This is the bargain in the line-up from Tenuta San Guido: of course, Sassicaia and Guidalberto are amazing, but they
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Brunello di Montalcino is unashamedly a wine that takes time to mature, and time feels noticeably short for us all. In a world that values fast trends, fashion and instant gratification, might patience be rewarded?
Lisse Garnett investigates… The Libération Tardive Foundation is a UK-based non-profit that was set up by a group of wonderfully
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Highlights: Ferdinando Principiano Langhe Nebbiolo 2023 Piemonte, Italy
This is an impressive Langhe Nebbiolo that’s worth looking out for. Ferdinando Principiano Langhe Nebbiolo 2023 Piemonte, Italy13% alcohol. This
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Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost
Bolgheri’s natural beauty drew the 57 year old Angelo Gaja to spread his winemaking wings out from Piemonte in 1996,
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Highlights: Il Tufiello Sancho Panza Campania Fiano 2020 Italy
This is a really impressive skin-fermented, naturally made Fiano. It’s a distinctive wine, but it’s delicious, and it held up
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