I’m rather glad I didn’t have to ask for this wine by name. It has a heck of a name. Triade is OK, I could cope with that, but it’s the triad of grape names that follow that I may not get to the end of safely if I was ordering a second glass. These… Read More »
When I first saw this bottle on the shelves of Marks and Spencer I did a little dance of glee, thinking I’d found Lacrima Christi from Naples in a UK supermarket. Having taken my glasses off and held the bottle in the tiny range of my focusing distance for reading gold type on a purple… Read More »
I’m partial to Italian wine, and whilst I’ll usually plump for an Italian red, there are some good whites. There’s some bad ones too, but let’s not worry too much about those. There’s plenty of Pinot Grigio sloshing about at all sorts of quality levels, but the regionally specific wines tend to be a little… Read More »
The nice people at Mondial Wines sent me a bottle of this Batasiolo Gavi del Comune di Gavi. I’m a fan of Italian wines so it’s good to see a supplier specialising in them. Lots of people tell me they don’t like Italian white wines. They are usually lying, they just don’t know it yet. Italian… Read More »
I’m watching the Olympics. I’m almost overwhelmed by choice, but right now I’m watching the Fencing. Men’s Individual Foil if you enjoy that kind of thing. It seems I do. The Italians are pretty good at this sort of thing, so here’s an Italian wine. We drank it in Italy, so it tasted great. That… Read More »
I know it’s not smart to buy a wine based on the picture on the label, but you must admit, the label on this one is just so pretty I couldn’t resist. It’s also Primitivo, something else I find hard to resist. The American translation is Zinfandel, the variety brought over from Italy by early… Read More »
We settled down to watch Italy play Egypt in South Africa for the Confederations Cup. It seemed sensible to have an Italian wine. It was great fun to watch Egypt win, sadly I didn’t have an Egyptian wine to switch to. We had a Poggio Nibbiale Morellino di Scansano 2005, which I’d picked up at… Read More »
There’s a few things clogging up the headlines around the world today so you may miss the top story this week. The good people of Marino, a town south of Rome, Italy turned on their kitchen taps and found that in place of the more traditional water flowing through them, they had wine. Being sensible… Read More »
I like Italian wine. I like the way it’s often a surprise, I like the way it tastes like someone actually made it rather than it coming from a factory, I like the way that sometimes it’s a bit odd. I like how it makes me think about sitting in local bars in Italy drinking… Read More »
Ricardo Ricco of Italy took the sixth stage of the Tour in an exciting last kilometre climb which saw the yellow jersey splatted into the road with a silly wheel clip mistake. We celebrated for him with a Gavi La Lancellotta 2007. It’s very pale with a zippy scent of grapefruits and peaches. Bone dry… Read More »