For several years now, I have often wondered why the wines of Piedmont’s G.D. Vajra don’t rake in 98+ points like, all the time. Sometimes I think that the major critics just don’t “get” what these wines are all about. Which seems even stranger, now that I think of it, considering that it took me…
Tag: Italian Wine
Grenache By Any Other Name (Madrevite Recent Releases)
Madrevite‘s Nicola Chiucchiurlotto has one of those made-for-TV-movie prodigal son type of stories that seem so prevalent in the wine world. In 2003, Chiucchiurlotto founded Madrevite in Castiglione del Lago, which sits in the hills near lakes Trasimeno and Chiusi, along the Umbria/Tuscany border. In that way, Chiucchiurlotto would seem like a relative newcomer by…
Postcard From Sannio, Part 3: …And All the Rest
This is the third (and final) entry in my three-part wrap-up of recent media jaunt to Sannio in southern Italy (check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already). Today, we’ll put a bow on things from this little slice of Campania but focusing on anything that’s not Aglianico or Falanghina. There’s a…
Postcard From Sannio, Part 1: Falanghina del Sannio
Today we’ve got the first in a three-parter covering my media jaunt last year to Sannio, an important but still relatively under-the-radar winegrowing region in Italy’s Campania area. [ Before we get started, however, I want to dedicate a moment of appreciation for one of our media traveling companions on that trip, Suzanne Branciforte, who…