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  • 🇬🇧Montalcino Masterclass at Sanlorenzo

    🇬🇧Montalcino Masterclass at Sanlorenzo

    here’s never a plan when you visit a cellar, it is all impromtu and it is the vigneron who decides what to do. We must have really won Luciano over, because he made us taste everything! From the “Act to become Brunello 2019” to the 2016 Riserva that will be bottled next summer

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  • 🇮🇹Sanlorenzo:  Masterclass a Montalcino

    🇮🇹Sanlorenzo: Masterclass a Montalcino

    Non c’è mai un piano preciso quando si visita una cantina, si va a braccio ed è il padrone di casa che decide cosa fare. ci ha fatto assaggiare praticamente tutto! Dal “Atto a diventare Brunello 2019” fino alla riserva 2016 che verrà imbottigliata la prossima estate

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  • 🇬🇧 Timorasso has blue eyes

    🇬🇧 Timorasso has blue eyes

    Timorasso has blue eyes. Yes, because as Luigi Boveri explains, this noble all-Italian variety has its genetic makeup made by 85% red berry, it is actually a white. The chromosomes are those of Cabernet Franc, Barbera, Merlot, Sangiovese, but the alleles are those of Riesling, Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer

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  • 🇮🇹 Il Timorasso ha gli occhi azzurri

    🇮🇹 Il Timorasso ha gli occhi azzurri

    ci spiega Luigi Boveri, questa nobile varietà tutta Italiana, pur avendo il corredo genetico all’85% da bacca rossa si manifesta poi come un bianco. I cromosomi sono quelli di Cabernet Franc, Barbera, Merlot, Sangiovese, ma gli alleli sono quelli di Riesling, Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer

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  • Madam Champagne

    Madam Champagne

    Article by Michele Nasoni on https://www.sommelier-naso-d-vino.com/home L’articolo originale in Italiano lo trovate qui! https://www.sommelier-naso-d-vino.com/post/madame-champagne “Her hair is Harlow gold Her lips are sweet surprise Her hands are never cold She’s got Bette Davis eyes” I have had Kim Carnes in my head singing this song for quite some time now.  It has been ringing in…

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  • 🇬🇧LIFELINE –  CONTUCCI WINERY: NOBLES’ WINE

    🇬🇧LIFELINE – CONTUCCI WINERY: NOBLES’ WINE

    🇮🇹 First things first. Or should I try the other way around? Follow me and let’s try to figure it out together. Before the mesmerizing Cellar, before the magnificent Palace built in the Renaissance by Antonio da Sangallo and decorated with frescos by Andrea Pozzo, way before all this there was Montepulciano, and Montepulciano was…

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