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2022 Branchini ‘Dutia’ (Albana di Romagna): Understated, mineral, lightly tropical, and more than lightly floral. $NA B+
2022 Tenuta del Gelso Braschi ‘Campo Mamante’ (Albana di Romagna Secco): Hard not to love this bold, structured, and looooooong take on Italy’s first DOCG white. $NA A-…
“Everybody has Sangiovese in their garden, basically.” As Il Conte Villa Prandone co-owner Marina De Angelis and Sales Director Luigi D’Angelo put it during an online media tasting of the estate’s releases, their home turf in Italy’s Marche is a hotbed of Sangiovese awesomeness. Since the 1950s, the De Angelis family has managed the entire…
2022 La Sabbiona ‘VIP’ Famoso Ravenna (Emilia-Romagna): Super floral, super bright, super figgy, super fresh, and just plain super. $NA B+
2020 La Sabbiona ‘Mammatus’ (Romagna Sangiovese Oriolo): Much more vibrant and crowd-pleasing—and alive—than its fossilized moniker would suggest. $NA B+…
Alllllriiiighty, folks… this will be my last feature entry on my 2023 media jaunt Romagna, this time focusing on the wines of Faenza (in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna). As cool as the wines of Romagna are, even I am kind of sick of talking about them at this point. Speaking of cool, that was…