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If you love champagne but find its rising prices hard to swallow, try Italy's answer to the world's best bubbly - with this blanc de blancs from Lombardy in north central Italy. Vezzoli is renowned as a producer for making bone dry wines and this lovely lively, dry sparkling wine is a top notch example. Yeasty and fresh, it rocks into a citrusy purity of flavour a long, beautifully balanced finish from extended ageing on lees (decomposing yeast) for 20 months.
The vineyard ?La Rocca? is situated on the Monte Rocchetta hill, just below the medieval castle built by the Scaligeri family in the town of Soave. The micro-climate in this vineyard produces wines with a unique perfume and distinctive taste. This is a characterful wine with exotic fruit flavours and complex nuttiness.
One of the great Nebbiolos made from grapes grown in the Langhe hills in Piemonte, whose name means foot of the mountains and aptly represents the sometimes very cool climate in this otherwise warm growing region. This wine offers outstanding value and highlights the delicious line of flavour that characterises the Nebbiolo grape. Red fruit and vibrant acidity balance the surprisingly staunch tannin structure of the wine. It's made by Produttori del Barbaresco, which was founded in 1958 and now has 51 members who collectively own approximately 100 hectares of the entire appellation (itself nearly 700 hectares).
This wine is 100% Nebbiolo grown on various vineyards in within the appellation and fermented in concrete tanks at 28?C with 20 days on the skins, pumping over twice a day and five months in large oak barrels. It's a shorter and slightly cooler fermentation than the single vineyard wines receive which results in a smoother, softer, more approachable wine in its youth. It drinks well now and can age for up to five years.
A Prosecco is a prosecco, right? Well, yes, but this one has a little bit of that next level dry taste and intensity about it, while retaining fresh, crisp, citrusy notes too.
Highly appealing and super refreshing. Top value sparkling wine buying. Certified Organic.
Once regarded as a renegade wine, Antinori Tignanello has been a trend setter from the start and was the first Sangiovese to be aged in barriques, the first contemporary red wine blended with untraditional varieties (specifically Cabernet) and one of the first red wines in the Chianti Classico region that didn?t use white grapes. Today it is a blend of Sangiovese (68%) with the balance being Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
Complex floral aromas lead into structured dark fruit, mocha and spice flavours in a wine with a medium body and beautifully balanced long finish.
The history of Tignanello
Tignanello was the first Sangiovese on the record to be aged in barriques, the first contemporary red wine blended with non traditional Tuscan grape varieties (specifically Cabernet Sauvignon) and one of the first red wines in the Chianti Classico region that didn?t use white grapes in the blend. All up, a big call.
Piero Antinori first discovered the use of non indigenous grapes, and more specifically, those used in Bordeaux through his uncle Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta who had a vineyard at Tenuta San Guido in Bolgheri, and was making a wine using grapes better known as Bordeaux classics, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot et al.
At first, this was for his own personal consumption, however was released in 1968 as the legendary Sassicaia.
Piero went off and forged his own path in Tuscany making wines from the local Sangiovese but also a select few made from Bordeaux grapes. This wine is a blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc - and as these wines are prohibited in Chianti, the wine is an IGT and not a DOCG.
Fiorini Chianti is a tasty, medium bodied Italian wine with refreshing red fruit flavours, bright acidity which adds to its structure and makes it taste great with tomato based food.
It's a traditional style of Chianti made from 90% Sangiovese with the balance being the Tuscan grapes, Canaiolo and Ciliegiolo, and a touch of French Cabernet Sauvignon, which adds to the structure. All of the grapes come from the Chianti DOCG and the wine is aged in a combination of new and old barriques and large older oak.
For the Vigneti Romio line, parent company, Caviro has meticulously selected highly-regarded vine growers from Romagna and the finest grape varieties of the region, trusting in the winemakers that combine the most modern production processes and equipment with the experience gained over many generations.
This is a fruity, floral sparkling wine and has dominant notes of red fruits and hints of peach, resulting in a delightfully fresh and aromatic bouquet. On the palate it is fresh, tasty and crunchy with a tight and fine bead.
Sicily is a hot bed of indigenous grape varieties and ancient winemaking techniques, such as this gorgeous dark, full bodied dry red blend shows.
It's made from 70% of the island's most planted red grape, Nero d'Avola, blended 30% Frappato 30%. Both were grown on hillside vineyards between 300 to 600 meters above sea level on clay soil. The Frappato was harvested relatively early to retain its red fruit freshness and then fermented in stainless steel while the Nero d?Avola was left on the vines to naturally dehydrate in the heat. It was late harvested and fermented separately then the two ferments were blended and matured in stainless steel tanks.
It's a rich dark dry red with intense concentration of flavour and impressive weight, structure and length.
This wine over delivers hugely for its humble price.
100% Montelpuciano d'Abruzzo. This wine is predominantly aged in stainless steel allowing for varietal expression. The nose is fruity and floral with delicate spiced undertones. On the palate red berry flavours take the lead, supported by liqourice notes. This is a medium bodied wine with fresh tannins and great vibrance.
Smooth, fruity Italian red blend of Sangiovese, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah grapes. This Tuscan wine is a lovely introduction to the great world of Italian reds in the Antinori stable; a family company that has been continuously producing wine back to the 1300s.
What the critics say...
"It's delightfully fruited and fragrant on the nose with dark plum."
Sam Kim, Wine Orbit
Modernism meets tradition in this beautiful Brunello, which was fermented in a combination of stainless steel and cement tanks at controlled temperatures below 26 degrees for three weeks. Malolactic fermentation in concrete was followed by ageing of 30 months in Slavonian and French oak barrels of different sizes. This classic long ageing results in a velvety complex wine for now and ageing.
This one is fabulously spicy with enormous depth and complex flavours running the gamut of sweet dark mocha aromas to savoury notes and a full body. This wine's high acidity is beautifully balanced by the smooth full bodied mouthfeel and there are layers of flavour with ripe plums and berries, autumn leaves, wild mushrooms and floral notes of rose petals.
Brunello
Brunello di Montalcino DOCG is one of Italy's great reds and comes from Montalcino, a hillside town that's about 42 kilometres from the city of Siena, 150 kilometres from Florence and is 567 metres above sea level.
Brunello di Montalcino must legally be aged for five years prior to its release in bottle, so when looking at the great wines from this small township, it's important to take that into consideration.
The name Brunello comes from the Italian word Bruno, which means brown. It was given to the grape variety that Brunello di Montalcino is made from; it's a 100% varietal wine, meaning it is made entirely from only one grape variety. And until 1879, that grape was thought to be a distinctively different variety than the main grape in Tuscany, namely Sangiovese.
In 1879, it was discovered that the Brunello grape is, in fact, a clone of Sangiovese which happens to produce particularly powerful, velvety smooth reds in this little highly prized hillside appellation. So, Brunello is one of Tuscany's few red wines that is made 100% from the Sangiovese grape and it is one of Italy's great red wines.
This dry Italian red classic is a Super Tuscan is a superb collector's wine from the Tuscan coast. It is a non traditional blend of French grapes grown in central Italy; Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot translate here to a dry, full bodied wine with balancing tart cherry fruit with darker tones of blackberry and plum. This vintage delivers especially chiselled and focused fruit characteristics that are elegantly framed by light spice, cola and earth. This vintage shows a heightened sense of intensity and territorial identity that is the hallmark of this storied estate.
A great Italian red from one of the oldest family owned wineries in the world, which has produced wine since the 1200s. This expressive Chianti Classico is dense and complex with piquant spicy aromas, firm impressive tannins and the energy of a great red from one of the world's classic wine regions.