“The soil is like a puzzle.” When Fattoria Zerbina matriarch Cristina Geminiani talks about her Faenza area vineyards in Italy’s Romagna, she gives the distinct impressions that a) she knows what she is doing, and, b) isn’t prepared to take any sh*t about it. At least, that’s the sense that I got when I got…
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Fight The Good Fight (Castelluccio Romagna Recent Releases)
“Romagna had to fight a lot – and still has to fight a lot.” So mentioned Alessandro Fiore – who, along with brother Claudio, oversee wine production of Castelluccio, one of their family’s three winery operations – recognizes the oddly ironic state of Romagna wine. On the one hand, by most measures this hilly, picturesque…