Tag: Tuscany

Vinonista wines from Italy

A handful of delicious and very Italian wines from Vinonista

Vinonista is a Swedish wine importer that has specialised in Italian wines from small producers. Vinonista primarily sells its wines through the so-called “on order range” (or assortment, as the Swedes like to say, “ordersortimentet”

Le Volte dell'Ornellaia

Ornellaia 2019, the definition of elegance?

The very first sniff reveals a cool herbal elegance that bodes well for the evening’s continued development. If you think of super-Tuscans as fruit-steeped powerhouses, you quickly have second thoughts when Ornellaia 2019 lands on

The landscape along the coast of Bolgheri in Tuscany

Super Tuscans began as a protest against white grapes

Super-Tuscan is still a much-used denomination. The first producers of these rebel wines have recently founded an association, the Comitato Historical Super Tuscans. The members are 16 in total. They have all produced a famous

Vineyards at the Dievole site in Bolgheri and a glimpse of the quarry

Dievole in Tuscany makes a major investment in Bolgheri

Alejandro Bulgheroni, one of the world’s wealthiest people, continues to expand his Italian wine empire, now with two vineyards in Bolgheri: Tenuta Meraviglia and Tenuta Le Colonne. His new venture in Bolgheri includes a new

Sample 1437 from the Oenoforos Tuscan syrah experiment

Six secret wines show the importance of the winemaker

The wine maker needs a strategy, knowledge and experience, as demonstrated Oenoforo’s experiment About two years ago I was in Tuscany to harvest grapes. Syrah grapes. There are actually a fair amount of syrah planted

Presenting Petra wines, a new era

Petra, revival in the Tuscan winery

The Petra winery in Val di Cornia along the Tuscan coast is making a fresh start. Today, they focus more on elegance than power.  Petra presented their new wines at the end of March in

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