Chianti Classico Crus of Castello di Meleto
We'd deem a Margaux fine and velvety, a Pauillac powerful and a Saint-Julien somewhere in between...
[Tasting Note] Cruperdu 2016
Tasting Date: 22/03/2025
Blind taste Cesanese & Chianti Classico
Last week a bottle of Cesanese was gifted to me from a Roman friend...
The Italian Spergola white wine
A two-hour drive southeast from Milan takes you to a place called Scandiano, where the Po River Plain joins the Apennines, the flatness beginning to undulate. It is in this undulating area that the Spergola grape was born hundreds of years ago...
Bordeaux Wine
All you need to know about Bordeaux wine is in this article...
Wine Relativity
Last weekend a friend sent me a photo of an elderly couple eating in a pub, with two glasses of red wine and a 3/4 full bottle on the table. It wasn't a brow raiser till my friend added a text saying "London at 9am"...
Ruchè, a grape saved by a priest
On July 6th I was in Castagnole, Monferrato. To do what? Wine tasting, as alwasy.
Alcohol-free Wine
I tasted a alcohol-free wine for the first time in London back in April...
The Miraculously Recovered Timorasso
Like many Italian indigenous wine grape varieties, Timorasso had long been abandoned...
Wine Label Details
Saturday noon, sitting in the kitchen of a friend's, with the sunlight pouring in through the French windows...