Introduction Sweet wines are intriguing products. Some people don’t know how to actually obtain a sweet wine. However, the majority of us can still notice when they drink a premium sweet wine. Most of the times, it happens that someone claims they don’t like drinking sweet wine because perahps they […]
Introduction Before 1976 and the tasting held by Steven Spurrier, no one was aware of the American wine potential. It’s interesting to see how fast things have changed (and are changing…) since then. Wine lovers started considering much more American wines and started believing that “the sun wasn’t just shining […]
Introduction Emilia-Romagna only makes 2 DOCGs: Colli Bolognesi Classico Pignoletto and Romagna Albana DOCGs. In this case, the main grape varieties are the whites Pignoletto and Albana (a little trick, memorize the grapes’ names and you won’t need much to learn the two DOCGs!). Both of them are indigenous varieties […]
Introduction Being Italians, we always love digging a bit into our wine heritage and bringing it to you. Things get even more exciting when we get to discuss wines made in our birthplace: Umbria. Even though the central Italian region only boasts 2 DOCGs, it does have some surprises for […]
Introduction Dolcetto is an interesting grape variety widely planted in Piedmont. Being native to the Italian region with the highest number of DOCGs doesn’t make things easy for this variety. On top of it, the two “big” Barolo and Barbaresco are right behind the corner. As it happens several times […]