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15 January 2019
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Isn’t it time we went Hybrid? The amazing PIWI world of Thomas Niedermayr…
As the Langhe struggles in this humid 2018 year to keep a lid on rampant peronospera (downy mildew), with even organic farmers forced to treat their vines with sulphur & copper up to 15 times already this year, exceeding the organic limit of 6kg per hectare, isn’t it time we went HYBRID?! PIWI stands for Pilzwiderstandsfähig! Hybrid (not......
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17 September 2018
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Meet ‘Super Eagles’ Babatunde & Mojeed: the new members of the Trediberri team!
Leaving their family & friends behind in Nigeria, in mid 2016 twenty-six year olds Babatunde (“Tunde”) & Mojeed (“MJ”) made the trek to Libya, meeting there & becoming friends in one of the many holding camps. The boat they then subsequently took to cross the Mediterranean capsized, unsurprisingly, with Mojeed saving his friend, Tunde’s life. On finally arriving at Lampedusa, they split up:......
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14 September 2018
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Alto Piedmont dinner with Bramaterra’s Mattia Antoniotti Monday 10 September, London
Piedmont has recently been given a welcome boost, not just by the arrival of Sig. Ronaldo but by the news that Giacomo Conterno has bought the Gattinara cantina of Nervi. The latter a stamp of approval that confirms the sense of revival that now pervades the Alto Piedmont region; the former gambling that Juventus could......
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8 August 2018
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‘The Price of Success’ – writes Tom Bruce-Gardyne, The Drinks Business, June 2018
“News spread like a wind ruffling hair and rattled the Piedmontese stands at Vinitaly. It upset glasses, bottles and old certainties,” wrote the Italian journalist, Roberto Fiori in La Stampa in April. Someone had just paid more than €2 million (£1.75m) for half a hectare of a top cru in Barolo DOCG. This eye-popping sum, more......
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20 July 2018
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Mt. Etna gives birth to Nerello producers Buscemi & SRC Vini…
Mt. Etna, with its Nerello grape – the ‘Nebbiolo of Sicily!’ – is attracting great interest & investment in its ancient vineyards, or Contrade as they are known locally. The region was apparently first recognised by the poet Teocrito in the 3rd century BC, but more recently, post WWII, the volcanic slopes were home to circa......