I consider the Podium, Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi from Garofoli to be an absolute bargain – a wine with plenty of character, proven age-worthiness, all at the price of £130 per 6 bottle case in bond in its most recent release, the impressive 2020.
On tasting the 2020 vintage, it seemed to me to be the product ...
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I have long been a fan of Champagne Jacquesson, though I find the single parcel wines increasingly difficult to track down. In fact, I have taken to buying odd bottles of mature vintages from reputable sources to offer on our Wine Pro website, from where I might be able to snaffle the odd bottle for a client lunch!
Based in th...
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‘La Ca' Nova is, in my view, quite possibly the greatest Barbaresco estate most people have not heard about. Yet. The wines, from two of the very top sites in town, are magnificent.’ Antonio Galloni, August 2019.
Marco’s wines are regularly among the handful of highest scoring Barbaresco that Galloni tastes, not ju...
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A wine merchant walks into an Italian restaurant with a former Sicilian sommelier and the restaurant’s own Sicilian sommelier soon asks; ‘Would you like to try a wine made by a friend of mine? It’s very individual – you should taste blind’.
No, this isn’t the start of some bizarre wine trade...
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I am fairly picky when it comes to Australian Shiraz, as a good friend of mine knows only too well. I look for wines with freshness to offset the richness of the fruit and I am no fan of styles that are shrouded in new oak – I prefer the fruit to shine through and to speak of its origins. Perhaps it was a brave call to recommend I t...
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How about this for a notable difference? Take a good look at the two notes below and their respective reviews. Both wines have the same score from Antonio Galloni – in fact, Galatrona, an oft-championed wine by us all at Atlas, scored the same as Masseto. They were the joint top-scoring wines in the same review yesterday of new releases fr...
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