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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......
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7 April 2018
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New Release 2017 Langhe Rosato, Trediberri
Just when we thought Spring was arriving, the cold and frost set in again. It’s never too cold for rosato, though! Italian rosato’s seem to be becoming more popular. The best examples tend to offer a depth of flavour, colour, and texture that is characteristic of their indigenous grape varieties. Usually darker pink than the......