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Tenuta Degli Dei “Le Redini”

Becky Sue Epstein
Wine Reviews
1 min read
Suppose you’re in a small town in Tuscany and you go to the local neighborhood restaurant and order dinner – beef with canellini beans, say – and you get a carafe of the house red wine: that’s what this wine is like. Relaxing, made nicely, with plenty of time to
biserno-vineyards

Discoveries: Giant Cabs Back in Balance

Becky Sue Epstein
Feature Stories
3 min read
Whether you tend to open a luxury wine for weekday meal or for a once-a-year celebration, I think you’ll be much happier now with the recent vintages of high-end cabernet sauvignon-based wines and Bordeaux-style blends from Napa – and from some exalted wineries in Italy, too, for that matter. It
brunello

Brunello: Beyond the Hype

W. Blake Gray
Feature Stories
5 min read
I never understood the appeal of Brunello di Montalcino. I haven't bought many because it's expensive, and it usually tastes like a bulky Super Tuscan to me, even though it should contain only Sangiovese. Last year I went to an oenophile's dream tasting in Montalcino. Sitting at a table with

A Ruffino Retrospective

Michelle Locke
Feature Stories
4 min read
Looking back, and ahead, with the iconic Chianti producer Lined up on the white tablecloth, the vertical Chianti tasting is a study in scarlet, from the deep ruby of the 2011 to the brick red of the 1977. It’s not every day you taste a nearly 40-year-old wine – for many