By Fabio Bartolomei, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
I confess! I did it! I put some SULPHUR in a lot of wine a few months ago. It was either that, or lose the wine. But it gets worse! It was the first time that we’d ever added a dose of sulphites to our wine so we weren’t quite sure how to calculate the quantity to add, and …
2009 is a fantastic Beaujolais vintage. Not that anyone really cares. Unlike Bordeaux 2009 there are no hyped-up sales campaigns, no 100 point Parker scores and sky-rocketing prices, no-one talking about investment potential or a booming Far East market. It is a crying shame. Good Beaujolais is one of the wine world’s best kept secrets…
By Vinos Ambiz, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
Happy days @VinosAmbiz
I’ve been meaning to post this post for months, but one thing after another kept cropping up and I just couldn’t find the time to write it up.
These ‘things’ included a number of wine tastings/events (which I’ve posted on below), and I’ve also been busy organizing our first ever shipment of wine to the …
By Vinos Ambiz, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
The tasting table
This time I ‘only’ drove 140 km for a glass of wine. This time to Aranda de Duero, the main town in the DO Ribera de Duero wine region.
This was the second stop on the Catavino.es On Tour series of tastings planned for all over Spain. It was held in a nice place called …
By Walter Speller, http://www.walterspeller.com/
Terracotta Amphora anyone
In part 1 of his article Walter reviewed the history of the Italian natural wine movement. He’s now diving right in and talks about how the wines really tastes like and why.
Indigenous
The clearest leitmotiv between all “natural” associations and wines is a growing commitment to indigenous grape varieties. Italy’s infatuation with international grape varieties, which …
By Vinos Ambiz, http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com/
At the fair
Next morning I slept in ‘late’, ie till 9 o’clock and was totally refreshed. I’m usually up by 7 every morning so it was lovely. We had a nice leisurely breakfast, went out to walk the dog, had a coffee on a pavement café next …
By Walter Speller
Mario Soldati
Italy’s national values may be staunchly conservative and traditional, but the reaction to the reactionary is never far away, and never fails to find enough support to become a voice, even if it is initially underground. Curiously, Italy is also the country, which performs the miracle act of converging the reactionary with the progressive. In this case, …
By Gal Zohar
As a keen seeker of trends in the wine trade, I can no longer ignore what everyone seems to talk about lately. Natural wines. But what are they really? With no clear definition the term seems to cause more confusion than sense. Whereas in order to bear the terms organic or Biodynamic clear guidelines have to be followed natural wines seem to crown themselves.
A …
