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Rethinking Primitivo

Oh, Primitivo, I’m sorry! I should never have doubted you and your potential. Continuing on the theme of “breaking stereotypes”,[…]

It is a long-standing stereotype that “the south” cannot make sparkling wines of any real interest because the climate is[…]

Montecucco Historical Tasting In 1998, a small appellation for Sangiovese-based wines was carved from the Maremma. Forged on the slopes of[…]

Good Value Wine If you want to find “good value” in the wine world, how easy is it? How much[…]

Walt Disney famously remarked “whatever you do, do it well.” It is good advice, but before you can do what[…]

Recently I wrote a couple of articles about Ciliegiolo and the Maremma. This was made possible because I had been[…]

Solera You may have encountered this word before. If you drink Sherry or Spanish Brandy, you almost certainly have. But[…]

A Unicorn Wine if ever there was one I really hate the term “unicorn wine”. But if there is such[…]

Shady Lane Estate Winery “This tastes too much like wine…” That was what my wife said. But when that is[…]

Ciliegiolo, Jewel of the Maremma For all my talk – and writing – about little-known or forgotten native grapes, there[…]