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An Italian wine walks into a bar...
Above: Yesterday, I tasted through the current releases of Fèlsina with my friends, from left, Craig Collins (who works for the winery’s distributor in Texas), John Roenigk (owner and manager of… more →
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An Italian wine walks into a bar...
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Do Bianchi wrote 6 days ago: Above: Yesterday, I tasted through the current releases of Fèlsina with my friends, from left, Craig … more →
Mr. Zaia goes to Washington (and lets Montalcino down)
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Do Bianchi wrote 4 weeks ago: It’s seems like it was just yesterday that I was posting a sigh of relief that the U.S. Alcoho … more →
Looking back at Brunello
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Do Bianchi wrote 1 month ago: On Friday, Franco and I posted the news that the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Tax, and Trade Bureau (TTB) … more →
Una faccia, una razza: Sicilian-Neapolitan-Jewish
Do Bianchi wrote 1 month ago: In Italy they say, una faccia, una razza, meaning literally one face, one race. It refers to the sha … more →
The Italian DOC/G system does (and doesn't) matter
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Do Bianchi wrote 1 month ago: Photos by Tracie B. A number of folks have posted recently about the Italian appellation system, bem … more →
Vin Santo: an overlooked "orange" wine? (and a more likely explanation of its name)
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Do Bianchi wrote 1 month ago: Above: Ale posted photos of grapes (Trebbiano and Malvasia) being laid out to dry on reed mats for t … more →
A closer reading: "The vine is the greatest commodity of Tuscany, if not of Italy."
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: This just in: taste old Australian Semillon with me at Jaynes Gastropub in San Diego on Saturday, Se … more →
A blog post from 1605: under an earlier Tuscan sun
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: Above: “37 Uve” (“37 Grape Varieties”) by Tuscan naturalist painter Bartolom … more →
Italy: Birth of a Wine Nation
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: From the “a Ph.D. has got to be good for something, doesn’t it?” department… … more →
Recipe for Picchiapò (we all loved each other so much)
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: My depressing post yesterday made think of the Roman dish Picchiapò and the great scene from the 74 … more →
Vintage anti-Berlusconi propaganda and other relics
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: Above, from left clockwise: “I have to stay outside,” “You’re poor? It … more →
The (de)criminalization of alcohol in Italy
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Do Bianchi wrote 2 months ago: Above: Italy’s agricultural minister Luca Zaia is widely recognized as having an ego the size … more →
Keeping the world safe for Italian wine
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Do Bianchi wrote 3 months ago: Above: Franco Ziliani and I tasted some fantastic Franciacorta together last September in Erbusco (b … more →
Deep Throat speaks from Montalcino
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Do Bianchi wrote 3 months ago: As in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows cast upon the walls of a wine cellar outline n … more →
Monty Waldin on Decanter's claim that Banfi has been "cleared of Brunello adulteration"
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Do Bianchi wrote 3 months ago: In case you don’t know him already, “Monty Waldin, a British wine writer who has been li … more →
A quixotic appeal to Brunello producers must not go unheard
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Do Bianchi wrote 3 months ago: One of Italy’s greatest and most polemical wine writers, Franco Ziliani is first and foremost … more →
Not everything coming up rosés in Montalcino
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Do Bianchi wrote 4 months ago: Above: I had fun pouring this flight of rosé, including the 1998 López de Heridia Viña Tondonia Rosa … more →
Wineries named in Brunello investigation
Do Bianchi wrote 4 months ago: The server that hosts VinoWire is having problems today and so I’m unable to post there but I … more →
Sunday Poetry on Friday and a painting too: Parmigianino and Ashbery
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Do Bianchi wrote 4 months ago: Tracie B and I are headed out to spend the weekend with her family at Canyon Lake — for swimming, re … more →
