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Second wines deserve a second look

Roger Morris
Feature Stories
3 min read
It was a great summer for drinking second wines. During Vinexpo in June, there was the vibrant 2014 Fleur de Pédseclaux, sampled from the barrel at the reawakened château’s dazzling new winery in Pauillac, just across the road from the Rothschilds.  Then there was Silvio Nardi’s Rosso di Montalcino at a dinner

Making Sense of Wine’s Tween Years

Evan Dawson
Features
6 min read
Trying to navigate Piedmont by using GPS is like asking your high school Spanish teacher to translate street talk in the heart of San Juan. You'll get some things right, some wrong, and you're likely to eventually make an embarrassing mistake. And so we were about 40 minutes late in

Montalcino and the Hunt for Terroir

Marisa D'Vari
Feature Stories
4 min read
“It was the 1995 Soldera [Brunello] that did it,” laughs Jan Hendrik Erbach, co-owner of Pian‘dell Orino in Montalcino with wife Caroline Pobitzer. A rustically attractive man with the charisma of a TV talk show host and the Einstein-like brain of crack geologist, Jan’s passion for terroir is easily conveyed

2004 Brunello di Montalcino DOCG

Kathleen Rake
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Clocking in at 14% ABV, this wine is a deep ruby red, with just a hint of purple. Floral notes and red fruit mingle on the nose, while more red fruit—especially juicy cherries—well-integrated tannins and an earthiness find their way-read more-

Buñuel on Brunello: Ballo Finale

Alfonso Cevola
Features
4 min read
Have we heard enough? Is Brunello dead? Have the Italians taken one of their greatest wine symbols and thrown it to the devil? From the looks of it, that seems to be the perception in the shattered market of late.-read more-