This edition of sipping while we SiP (shelter-in-place) due to the Covid pandemic has us enjoying highly-regarded and highly-priced selections from Bolgheri’s Argentiera. While named after the silver mines that once dotted their home turf in Maremma, this Tuscan producer is pretty much all gold-standard, with 95+ point scores from the conventional critics is being…
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Wine In the Time of Coronavirus, Part 42: Fighting the “Viticulture of Death” (Avignonesi Recent Releases)
Virginie Saverys is fighting against what she calls the “viticulture of death.” Born in Ghent, Belgium, Saverys graduated in law from the University of Paris, and moved to Tuscany in 2007. After taking the helm at Avignonesi two years later, she was, as she told me during a recent Zoom tasting of her wines, “a…
Wine In the Time of Coronavirus, Part 41: A Little S&M (Sella & Mosca Sardinia Recent Releases)
Recently, I was invited to taste some S&M samples via Zoom. Ok, your randy peoples, we’re talking about a very particular, vinous S&M here – specifically, Sardinia’s Sella & Mosca. The one Founded in 1899 by two Piedmont businessmen, Erminio Sella and Edgardo Mosca, who after the Phylloxera epidemic ambitiously wanted to reclaim vineyards in…
Wine In the Time of Coronavirus, Part 40: The Pinot Clone Wars (Domaine Carneros Recent Releases)
Wait a minute… holy crap, have we really hit 40 virtual tasting features since the start of Covid SiP sipping?!? FORTY?!?? My eyesight has taken a serious hit, and I am blaming staring at the computer screens for Zoom samples tastings during this somewhat unprecedented time of non-travel for us media types (and not yet…