Italy - Palate Press

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The United States is a growing wine market, and several wine events this year highlight the relationships between these countries. Also, full disclosure, I’m a Francophile, a lover of Italy, and I write for international wine publications that include the U.S. and China. A few years ago I had dinner

What We’re Drinking – Fattoria Casabianca Chianti Colli Senesi Coppaia

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Red fruit and grippy tannins will pair well with any baked pasta dish. Cherry, cranberry and leafy herbs show on the nose. Dark cherry, cranberry, leather, and black tea work well together on the palate. Hint so tea and chocolate covered cherries sneak out on the mid-palate. Tannins are very

Lightness and weight: an ode to Schioppettino

Simon J Woolf

Feature Stories

4 min read

One of the most beguiling things about Italy's finest red wine varieties is their balance between weight and complexity on the one hand, and finesse and lightness on the other. Milan Kundera spends the entire length of his classic 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” iterating over a similar

What We’re Drinking – Fattoria Casabianca Loccareto

David Honig

Wine Reviews

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Explore something new with this nice Italian red. Dark garnet in color. Raspberry, cherry, vanilla, and spices show on the nose. The palate is more tart than the nose. Cranberry and raspberry lead, followed by licorice, sage, and brown sugar. Tart fruits linger with grippy tannins. Drink with lamb, Recommended.

What We’re Drinking – 2010 Val di Suga Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

Becky Sue Epstein

Wine Reviews

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At a recent tasting of the newly released five-star 2010 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino, I had a chance to go through several wines in depth at a seminar. But the seminar sample of Val di Suga’s was flat and not that interesting, so I headed down to the tasting

Best of 2014: The Women of Italian Wine Never Give Up

Elisabetta Tosi

Feature Stories

4 min read

This week we will be running some of our favorite pieces from 2014 by our esteemed panel of columnists. Enjoy! When we talk about Italian wines, we usually talk about the men behind them, but in doing so we forget that the Italian wine world is made up of both

Bubbles Amid the Storm

Michelle Locke

Feature Stories

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After a wet year, Ferrari winemakers keep calm, carry on in Trento, Italy. Walking through hillside vineyards on a seductively beautiful fall day, bands of golden sunshine draped over serried rows of green, Ferrari winery vice president Marcello Lunelli is searching for a word to describe the worst growing

In Italy, a tough vintage

Elisabetta Tosi

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“We work in a factory without a roof, and have to accept what the sky gives us… but I have never seen a summer like this,” sighs the old grape grower. Living in an area of wine production puts me in touch with the daily problems, hopes, joys and frustrations of

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