The latest episode in the Barbera: In The Glass series is now live at MyNameIsBarbera.com, and in it I continue my conversation with Vinchio and Vaglio‘s Tessa Donadieu. This time, we focus on the next “level” of the Barbera quality pyramid in Monferrato (which, as I have written before, I don’t think is a “pyramid”…
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Red (Talking Piemonte Barbera DOC At MyNameIsBarbera.com)
For my latest entry over at MyNameIsBarbera.com, we return to some video action for the Barbera: In the Glass section. In this short episode, I get schooled by Vinchio and Vaglio‘s Tessa Donadieu on why the wine that forms the base of the Monferrato Barbera quality pyramid – the Piemonte Barbera DOC – ought to…
Talking Ruchè For MyNameIsBarbera.com
Ok… so… in my latest piece for MyNameIsBarbera.com, I compare Ruchè to Deadpool. I know… it’s not Barbera (but it is from the land of Barbera, and many a Barbera producer also offer excellent Ruchè wines)… and, well… yeah, Deadpool. It’s so crazy that it just might work, right? Look, Deadpool is quirky, unique, and not…
Once More, Unto The Breach (VinItaly 2017 Highlights, Part 2)
Forthwith, we continue my highlights from the 2017 incarnation of VinItaly, held in Verona earlier this year, and to which I was lucky enough to have been invited as a media guest. [ For background on VinItaly, details on the first batch of wines that grabbed my vinous attention at the event, and the format…