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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Contextualizing Kimmeridgian soils

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Writing on winegeeks.com ( The World's Top 10 Wine Soils ), Sunny Brown undertook the description of the top 10 wine soils ranked based ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Part X -- The Future: The definitive comparison of Champagne, Franciacorta, Prosecco, and Cava

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Over the course of nine prior posts, I have explored varying characteristics (Origins, regulatory histories, macro-level characteristics, pr...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The Right Bank rules: French versus Italian Merlot tasting

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Bordeaux and Italian Merlots are, for the most part, markedly dissimilar. That is the conclusion of a tasting that encomapssed 10 Merlots f...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Italian Merlots: Tenuta di Castelgiocondo's Lamaione (Montalcino, Tuscany)

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There are few Italian wine family names that are as storied or as pedigreed as Frescobaldi, a Florentine name that stretches back 30 generat...

The St. Emilion wine region

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The world's most renowned regions for the production of Merlot wines are St. Emilion and Pomerol on the right bank of the Dordogne Rive...
Monday, April 8, 2013

A summary of noteworthy Tuscan Merlot offerings

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In a January 2001 article on Italian Merlot (New Wave Merlot in Italy, Wine Business.com), Franco Zillani notes that the presence of Merlot ...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

Italian Merlots: Fattoria Petrolo's Galatrona (Colli Aretini, Tuscany)

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The 272-ha Petrolo estate is located in Bucine (province of Arezzo) and falls within Colli Aretini, one of the eight Chianti sub-regions (to...