“There’s no air conditioning, and I am sweating!” The affable Luigi Collavini from Eugenio Collavini says that he’s uncomfortable in his family’s warm wine offices during our online tasting back in August; but you wouldn’t notice it on our Zoom call. Luigi is animated, and clearly eager to share his family’s story (and wines). One…
Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for January 6, 2025
2017 La Rioja Alta S.A. Vina Ardanza Reserva (Rioja): Deep, bright, elegant, and still one of region’s most consistently awesome buys. $42 A-
2020 Tenuta Cucco Bricco Voghera (Barolo): Put your old school hat on for this earthy, tangy, and developed tribute to Piedmont’s yesteryear. $92 A-
2017 Bertinga ‘Punta di Adine’ (Toscana): All the lines are clearly delineated in this focused, structured, assertive, and delicious display. $100 A…
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AS we bid adieu to 2024, we in the wine biz (and probably the world in general) can look towards the future with… a sense of dread and trepidation, probably. So instead, let’s look back on 2024 here on 1WD, as I give you (as reported to me by analytics)… The Top 10 Most Popular…
“Bigger Than Any One Chapter” (Tasting Twenty Years of Mayacamas Cabernet)
“It’s bigger than any one chapter; if we do it well, the chatter will be about our wines being part of the lineage.” Mayacamas winemaker Braiden Albrecht talks about the history of his employer (famously founded in 1889) with a kind of detached reverence. When we tasted three vintages of Mayacamas Cabernet Sauvignon spanning twenty…