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Discovering and learning
Summer memories
In this period of back to re-confinement, there is a desire of positivity and very often good memories help. This is why I decided to re-open a wine that I discovered this summer in Abruzzo region, more precisely during the unforgettable visit to Tenuta i Fauri (see...
Looking for certainty
An attitude that has been my own since I have nurtured a passion for wine, is to test whether what I read and heard around a brand is true and authentic. Pieropan is - essentially though not only - synonymous of Soave, a Veneto DOC appelation from the province of...
High poetry
It is strange how I came to this bottle of Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi. Have I been to the Marche region? Yes. Did I visit the winery? Unfortunately no…. So what? Well, it was a gift: a gift from a person very dear to me with high expertise in wines because she...
Tasting the excellence
We are going to taste a Champagne of the most prestigious French Maisons, a Ruinart Blanc de Blancs. As a matter of interest, Ruinart is the oldest Maison in the Champagne region, born thanks to the intuition of a 23 year old monk Dom Thierry Ruinart who at the end of...
Verdicchio and Verdicchio
We are in the Italian region of Marche, home of Verdicchio. But which Verdicchio? Yes, because this grape variety gives rise to two totally different types of wine: Verdicchio di Iesi and Verdicchio di Matelica. I have tasted both, and both are excellent white wines...
Discovering the Canton Valais
We are in Switzerland, specifically in Valais, perhaps the most prolific canton in terms of Swiss wine production. And we are talking of great wines, coming from high altitude vineyards. During the last event Caves Ouvertes des vins du Valais, among the many and...
Really?!?
… That's what I said to myself when I saw this label unknown to me: a Hungarian wine produced by the famous Spanish winery Vega Sicilia?? Indeed, Vega Sicilia does not only mean prestigious Iberian red wines such as Macán or Unico, but it also means Hungary, Tokaji...
Not only Champagne
Crémant de Limoux is part of the wide French appellations Crémant which can be a respectable alternative to the French, universal Champagne. We are always talking about classic or traditional fermentation method, then second...
A “Barolo from the South”
Curious to try it as I am genetically from Piemonte region, I bought a bottle of Aglianico, specifically a DOCG Aglianico del Taburno. Aglianico is a vine that thrives in the volcanic hilly areas of Campania and Basilicata, terroir that confers an elegance and a...
History & style
History and style: this is what can distinguish Ca 'dei Frati. History because we are now in the fourth generation of Dal Cero family. History that began in 1939 with the transfer of Felice Dal Cero from Verona to Lugana di Sirmione located on the southern shore of...