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2022 San Felice Chianti Classico (Tuscany): Cherry fruit taking a long, tangy stroll down a freshly-sodded field of herbs. $22 B+
2022 San Felice Bell’Aja Bolgheri (Tuscany): A sexy, polished, plummy, spicy and successful Tuscan Bordeaux impression. $34 A-
2017 Bertinga Toscana (Tuscany): A big and bold Tuscan soul, dressed with a modern flair. $70 A-…
As the saying goes, hell is the absence of reason. But for 9diDANTE founder Alex Ouziel, hell was the absence of quality wine in Vermouth. Ouziel is a 20+ year alcohol industry veteran, originally from Barcelona, who moved to Moscow in the mid-1990s working for an importer of Spanish wines. This stint was followed by…
It’s never a bad day when you get to taste through samples with the remote/virtual help of Tenuta Carretta, whose 550+ years of history have seen them craft some of finest wines that you can get your grubby hands on from northwestern Italy. Which is exactly the good fortune that I had a few months…
“This might be the most sustainable winery in the world.” If you spend enough time in the wine business, you’ll eventually start to encounter mentions of UC Davis: vines and rootstocks that have been cloned, studied, developed, and/or analyzed there; people in the wine world who tout their status as “UC Davis trained.” For a…