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On the Wine Trail in Italy (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Looking at Italian wine sales, compared to France and Australia (their nearest world competitors on a case and dollar volume level, it is looking like Italy has taken the lead. Not to say all three categories aren’t below past years performances. However, Italy looks like it could pull it out this year and press on ahead. Why? First, the wines are neither too expensive (Bordeaux and Champagne)...
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Tarragon & Thyme (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I always love some of these hard little biscuits in at Christmas - they help soak up liquer type drinks which tend to get proffered at this type of year although they are traditionally served with Vin Santo a very sweet white Italian Wine. Perhaps I am uncouth but I also love them with a nice hot Masawati Coffee, (hot strong coffee liberally laced with dark rum) Hot Cinnamon Chocolate or Milky white...
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Italian Wine Blog - Wine90 (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Jean Leon Wine The Torres owned Jean Leon wine range are a peculiar brand to spark an interest in wines for an Italian wine blogger yet so it was, four years ago, that I visited my very first vineyard as part of a "team building" trip for the travel company I worked for. Readers of this blog will know that I have spent two of the last three years in Italy, working in the wine and travel trade...
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The Winesleuth (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
My infatuation with Italian wine continues. A is for Amarone. B is for Brunello di Montelcino, bodalicious, complex, tasty, lipsmackingly satisfying (ok,so I’m skipping around the alphabet and making up words) you get the point, I do love those Italians. Growing up with only the familiar wicker covered funnily shaped bottles of Chianti, that was [...]
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Dell'Anima: Excellent Italian wine bar/restaurant with simple, seasonal food . Delicious house made pasta dishes (the carbonara with speck, egg and pecorino is a thriller) as well as a great selection of traditional secondi. There's also a fantastic wine selection, .... Gluttonous Travels. [...]
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Dell'Anima: Excellent Italian wine bar/restaurant with simple, seasonal food . Delicious house made pasta dishes (the carbonara with speck, egg and pecorino is a thriller) as well as a great selection of traditional secondi. [...]
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De Long Wine Moment (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Why does it take so long to make these things? Can’t you just trace a bunch of maps supplied by the regions? I wish it were that easy. Funny enough, very few regions in Italy publish their own maps or really do much to tell the world that they exist. Take one of [...]
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Italian Wine Blog - Wine90 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Wine Spectator Top 100 I'm a week late on the Wine Spectator Top 100 wines, they went ahead and released the results before telling me and I'm mighty peeved. Luckily, they have redeemed themselves by placing 4 Italian wines in the Top 10 and 2 of those I've reviewed this year! Wine90! Finger on da pulse! See the full Wine Spectator Top 100 Wine List Here It is brilliant to see Brancaia in the top 10...
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On the Wine Trail in Italy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
This afternoon I was standing in the aisle of a super market looking at a stack of Italian wine. A good looking woman in her middle 40‘s, with a plunging neckline, motioned to the Sangiovese and suggested I try a bottle. “It’s delicious. And it’s Sangiovese. How could you go wrong?” Indeed. She was making my job easier. In the rush to the holidays, folks are trying to...
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Italian Wine Blog - Wine90 (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Castel de Paolis Muffa Nobile 2005 Castel de Paolis Muffa Nobile is one of my personal favourite Italian wines as it typifies the changes in Italian wine (especially white) and perhaps best exemplifies the phenomenal increase in quality coming from areas of Italy that have long been thought of as areas of mass production and little else. Castel de Paolis is a Lazio producer coming straight out of Castelli...
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jamie goode's wine blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Very excited to try a rather obscure but wonderful Italian red last night. It's from Piedmont, but the grape variety is Pelaverda, which is grown mostly in the commune of Verduno. This is the sort of red wine I just love. Fresh, natural, complex and expressive. Fratelli Alessandria Pelaverga Verduno 2008 Piedmont, Italy 13.5% alcohol. Light... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for...
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Grape Sense - A Glass Half Full (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I seldom get bored with wine, or drinking wine, writing about wine, doing wine research! But on rare occasions when I have to make an effort to post to the blog or crank out a newspaper column, I scratch my head and wonder why I do all this work for no pay. Then I discover something new or really good and none of the above matters at all. It happened tonight after a long work day. I had purchased a...
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Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
From the “run don’t walk department”… Last night, after leading an Italian wine tasting in Houston, I finally got the chance to sit down with cousins Marty and Joanne for a proper dinner at Catalan, where — and I’ll just cut to the chase since I need to get my butt on a plane in a [...]
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mondosapore (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
What will 2010 be like for Italian wine in the US? Like 2009. Only more so. Everyone's been hoping for a big rebound in 2010, but early indications are that the market will not snap back to "normal." Retailers and restaurateurs in New York-New Jersey keep pushing for lower-cost wines; except for holiday gift shopping, the mantra will continue to be "under $20." With the weaker dollar,...
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Do Bianchi (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Above: Yesterday, I tasted through the current releases of Fèlsina with my friends, from left, Craig Collins (who works for the winery’s distributor in Texas), John Roenigk (owner and manager of The Austin Wine Merchant), and Chiara Leonini, Fèlsina’s export manager. For the record, Fèlsina is pronounced FEHL-see-nah. It’s a labor of love and it’s my [...]...
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bhakti | 05/17/2008
Bharatbook.com announces a new market research report “Who Drinks Italian Wine in the UK 2004-2005 - Management briefing” ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=9378 ) Italian wine forms part of the drinking repertoires of over half of UK consumers. However, there are relatively few core Italian wine drinkers, and while these “Loyalists” tend to be younger, their spending patterns and price sensitivity
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legionofmarduk | 04/02/2008
Vinitaly, the Italian Wine Expo starting tomorrow in Verona will feature the best products of a field where Italy has always excelled and the men behind them, eager to take by storm an international market which has grown weary of the appalling uniformity lobbied for by some notorious magazine editors and self-appointed "wine gurus"...
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