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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......
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24 May 2018
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The Power of Three? Torinese Davide Fregonese unveils his brand new trio of Nebbioli!
It’s every Italian’s dream to buy their own vineyard! It is I suppose the Italian equivalent of purchasing a fishing ‘beat’ on a trout river in chalky Hampshire. But for Torinese Davide Fregonese, being Piedmontese, he opted to go for the salmon one instead: a Barolo vineyard! And not just one, & nor in any old place, but Davide went for two......
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4 May 2018
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Brrrr! News from Nord Italia: Biondelli, Monte dei Ragni, Bele Casel, & Marco Sara
Just back from a March 2018 tour of DBGitalia’s (battered) northern Italian producers… Lombardia’s Joska Biondelli was still feeling bruised having lost 70% of his (Franciacorta) Chardonnay crop in April 2017’s frost, only to be then battered by the subsequent breakage of 6,000 bottles of his brand new, 100% Pinot Nero 2016 Franciacorta Rosé ‘Donna......