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Daily Archives: October 24, 2024

Tenuta di Arceno: Chianti Classico and Toscana IGT Wines from Jackson Family

In 1994 Jess Stonestreet Jackson and Barbara Banke purchased a one-thousand-hectare (ha) estate in Castelnuovo Berardenga near the southern tip of the Chianti Classico region.  It was not a particularly auspicious moment for Chianti Classico. Some of region’s top producers were flaunting the Consorzio’s rules and producing Sangiovese based wines without the required white wine component, and others were introducing …

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“I Don’t Like Mineral Water”: The Iconoclastic Wines of Ida Agnoletti (Postcard from Asolo Prosecco, Part 4)

The post “I Don’t Like Mineral Water”: The Iconoclastic Wines of Ida Agnoletti (Postcard from Asolo Prosecco, Part 4) appeared first on 1 Wine Dude. In a lot of ways, Ida Agnoletti represents the antithesis of everything that we in the States think that we know about Prosecco. In a region known for large production houses, she farms only 8 …

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Museum Mystery: Panduan Pemula untuk Menjelajahi Misteri

Museum Mystery: Panduan Pemula untuk Menjelajahi Misteri merupakan judul dari sebuah artikel kami kali ini. Kami ucapkan Selamat datang di steveheimoff.com, Mengungkap Dunia Perjudian Melalui Kata-kata, Strategi, dan Kisah Nyata. Pada kesempatan kali ini,kami masih bersemangat untuk membahas soal Museum Mystery: Panduan Pemula untuk Menjelajahi Misteri . Perkenalan Museum Mystery: Panduan Pemula untuk Menjelajahi Misteri Museum Mystery adalah salah satu …

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Experimental Italy: Three producers defying convention

From left: the Lageder family, Alois, wife Veronika and sixth-generation children Anna, Helena and Alois Clemens. In 1983, the first French oak barriques arrived in Barolo. Elio, son of Giuseppe Altare, who had founded his estate in La Morra in 1948, had seen first-hand the affluence of winemakers in Burgundy during a visit to the region in the 1970s. The …

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The ethical drinker – October 2024

For some reason, these aren’t questions that many of us ask ourselves when it comes to wine, but that needs to change.  There are just as many opportunities for human exploitation in wine production as there are in the production of, say, bananas and coffee – products that we’re now used to seeing accompanied by a Fairtrade label. With one …

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