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Gallo Adds Brancaia to Portfolio.
News article taken from Shanken News Daily A little-known small family-owned winery in California (you probably haven’t even heard of them) E&J Gallo has confirmed they’ve added Tuscany’s Brancaia...
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Allegrini Palazzo Della Torre, Veneto, Italy.
Grapes 70% Corvina, 25% Rondinella, 5% Sangiovese Facts Oh sure, I’d like to drink Amarone every day! But with what I consider a “decent” bottle starting at $50, and going swiftly upwards from...
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Orange-Glazed Chicken Wings Paired with Batasiolo Gavi, Piedmont, Italy.
Gavi and chicken wings….a match made in….ermmmmmm…..some alternate universe….where people do those kinds of pairings… Always one to defy convention, these fancy-schmancy chicken wings are perfect as a...
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Passitivo Primitivo, Puglia, Italy.
Grapes 100% Primitivo (aka Zinfandel) Facts First-things-first, I think the best idea that brands such as Layer Cake, ever did when marketing their own Primitivo was to put “AKA Zinfandel” on the...
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Did Italian Wine Jump the Shark with its Wine Purse?
I have to admit that I didn’t even want to write this post, but it seems to keep getting blasted at me from every angle on the Interweb (I guess the PR company must has really been hammering-out the...
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Barba Vignafranca Montepulciano, Abruzzo, Italy.
Grapes 100% Montepulciano [Mawn-teh-pool-CHA-noh] I personally always make the point of pronouncing it in as ridiculously strong of an Italian accent as possible, with plenty of hand gestures (no...
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Saladini Pilastri “Vigna Monteprandone," Rosso Piceno Superiore, Marches, Italy.
Grapes 70% Montepulciano, 30% Sangiovese. Facts “Excuse me…yes, hello! This is my first time in your wine store and I was wondering if you could help me. I read this review online today written by...
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Marchetti Verdicchio Dei Castelli Di Jesi Classico, Marches, Italy.
Grapes 100% Verdicchio Facts Pronunciation time! Verdicchio: [Vair-dee-kee-oh] Dei Castelli Di Jesi: [Day kah-stay-lee dee jeh-see] Phew! It’s a tough one! You almost need a glass of wine after...
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Grape Expectations – Eight Wines that Pair With Summer and Fall.
Ok, first-things-first, I didn’t write the title for this article. “Grape Expectations” is way beyond my reaches of my creativity. Secondly; I wrote this article a couple of months ago for the...
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Luigi Righetti “Capitel de Roari” Amarone, Valpolicella, Italy, 2008
Grape Corvina, Rondinella, Molinara (%’s unknown) Facts I’m turbo-passionate about Amarone, and if I could afford to drink it every day, I promise you I would! Amarone is stylistically very...
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Chateau Drew Barrymore.
Drew Barrymore is the latest celeb that has entered the wine business. Wilson Daniels Ltd. has been named the U.S. importer for Barrymore Wines. Drew’s first offering is a Pinot Grigio from Italy....
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