I am pleased to say that, with impeccable timing, we have just shipped the new vintage of Nervi’s Il Rosato, which proved to be one of our most successful rosé offers in recent years.Timing is everything in rosé sales (you don’t tend to sell much in November, though I remember a shipment arriving remarkably late at a pr...
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If you don’t yet know the wines of Giovanni Rosso, I wouldn’t be surprised. That said, given the quality of their wines in the 2016 vintage, I don’t think this lack of recognition will last much longer. Monica Larner has just reviewed two wines from this estate in 2016, but not a word has been published on them by Antonio Gallo...
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The rosé market is considerable today and sales continue to grow, particularly to younger wine consumers. It has led many estates to develop a rosé; some are focused primarily on quality, some backed by celebrities perhaps more focused on image, and some of the very best, such as Alexis Lichine’s Château d’Esclans...
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“It has some earthy/mineral character that somehow reminded me of some wines from Domaine Leroy in Burgundy with some Rayas thrown in.” So wrote Luis Gutiérrez as he awarded the 2016 Rumbo al Norte from Comando G a perfect 100 point score in December 2018. I had heard of Comando G. I had heard of the winemaking dynamism increa...
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I am recommending a wine from a Port estate, but not a port. This is not as cryptic as it sounds as Port houses have been producing unfortified table wines for many years, but recently, with greater attention, production has started to garner greater interest.
If you look back in history, the Douro produced table wines before it prod...
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One of the great things about wine is that different philosophies can still produce wines of great quality, as the 2016 Concerto di Fonterutoli revealed when I tasted it a couple of weeks ago. Tuscany went through a period of change from the 1970s through to the 1990s – producers turned their backs on wine laws, content to produce great wi...
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