Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The world of Italian wine is mourning the loss of Abruzzese pioneer winemaker Gianni Masciarelli, who has died of a heart attack aged 53.
PoppingCorks.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Nestled on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range of New South Wales, Mudgee has had a one hundred and fifty year viticultural history and over eighty years of association with Italian wine. di Lusso is at the forefront of showcasing some excellent Italian varietals from a region well suited to growing these exciting grapes.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Its groan-inducing title excepted, Sergio Esposito's "Passion on the Vine" (Broadway; $25) is making a good case for itself as the wine read of the summer. Esposito, who founded the New York wine shop Italian Wine Merchants - with help from Mario Batali and...
mondosapore (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
No proper wi-fi connection, but I shall try to make DJR proud of me and my thumbal abilities. So without further ado and perorations... PART ONE: I ABANDON MY ROOTS I am a poor but thoughtful lad. As hogs root in the ice-covered trash cans in the rows of the flooded trailer park, I discover the beauties of the ancient world, of Greece and Rome, in the sticky pages of art books. I hitchhike to the nearest...
mondosapore (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Over the past several years there have been quite a few books recounting the "author's" personal journey through Italy and family and wine, one usually punctuated with the collisions of countries old and new, especially if the "author" has US citizenship. The "author" spends a lot of time hobnobbing with the titled nobility and their flaks. There's generally a lot of emotion, sort of like an old Sophia/Marcello...
mondosapore (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
"Now I'm not saying all Italian wines should have names like Yellowtail or Fat Bastard," the guy was shouting as I walked into the restaurant's bar. "But they sure as hell could be a damnsight easier to wrap your tongue or mind around than Villacorleone Vigneti Bruciati a Seicento Metri Inzolia Speciale Riserva di Mastro Gesualdo il Quondam Agronomo 2005. Not to mention Sassicaia." "I see Al's at it...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
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Spittoon (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A wine for a damn-decent-if-I-may-say-so seafood risotto. Waitrose have this new(ish) deli range; one item of which is a tub of mixed seafood in a herbed olive oil. Rather tasty I must say. Mixed in with a decently flavoured risotto it makes for a superb meal. An Italian wine to accompany, obviously, and you can't go wrong with this bottle also available from Waitrose. Review 0.3 Wine Tasting Note:...
Winetastic (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Nestled on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range of New South Wales, Mudgee has had a one hundred and fifty year viticultural history and over eighty years of association with Italian wine. di Lusso is at the forefront of showcasing some excellent Italian varietals from a region well suited to growing these exciting grapes.
Dr. Vino's wine blog (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
They’re not all new, but here are some wine blogs worth checking out if you haven’t already. Do Bianchi: The itinerant Jeremy Parzen seems to float between New York and San Diego but his wine home is clearly Italy. He has a PhD in Italian literature and worked for an Italian wine importer for a while [...]
mondosapore (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Yes, ladies and gents, the transformation of this humble wretch of a blogger into a multimedia superstar began (what took so long?) last weekend. Mark the date: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM EDT. A date sure to resound in my media resume as the Day We Began to Change Italian Wine. The venue:
Valancy Jane (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
I think I’ve shared my method of picking wine before. Look for the bottles with an animal on the label, then narrow it down to the least appetizing animal. Presto. There’s your wine. But something I’ve learned in the little Italian markets around my house is that Italians rarely put animals on the label, and that [...]
The Wine Cask Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
(NW) decided we needed to pursue adding the "Centi-varietal" distinction to our credentials and our palates. Meaning, we need to find (the hard part) and taste (the easy part) wines made from 100 different grape varieties. He spied this Northern Italian wine--so northern that the label reads more like a German wine than an Italian one--and grabbed it because of the grape--Lagrein--which we have never...
Tasting Room (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Sometimes it's easy to lose sight of how radically wine lists in restaurants have changed over the past, oh, fifteen years or so. I've been on a sort of Italian-resto-spree lately, and I'm coming out of it thinking that I'm either dre...
Wine Library TV (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Gary still thinks the Dolcetto wines are some of the best values out there and these little wines from Piedmont bring serious thunder. Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version. Wines tasted in this episode: 2006 Grimaldi Dolcetto D’albaDolcetto d’Alba 2005 Pietro Rinaldi Dolcetto D’albaDolcetto d’Alba [...]
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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
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"...
