Fri 31 Oct 2008
CHIANTI CLASSICO PRODUCER IL BORGHETTO’S FETISH FOR BURGUNDIAN BOTTLES HAS FALLEN FOUL OF THE CONSORZIO
Tim Manning, winemaker of Il Borghetto, an estate in Tuscany’s San Casciano, discovered recently that the regulations regarding bottle shape can change rather quickly and, in doing so, restrict him from continuing to fill the estate’s Chianti Classico in the sloping shouldered Burgundian bottles. (more…)
Wed 15 Oct 2008
THE LUNGAROTTI BIOMASS PROJECT GAINS MOMENTUM
This mouthful merely states that Lungarotti, one of the largest producers of Umbria, made famous by the late Giorgio Lungarotti, now can supply all of its hot water as well as 30 per cent of its electricity entirely on its own. (more…)
Tue 14 Oct 2008
BRUNELLO DI MONTALCINO REMAINS FIRMLY IN THE SPOTLIGHTS - FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS
Friday just past saw a bitter confrontation between some of the principal protagonists in the Brunellogate affair in a Face to Face Debate held in Siena. The ones responsible for the scandal are journalists in general and Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani in particular, according to Ezio Rivella, once consultant enologist to dominant Brunello producer Castello Banfi. He claimed it was the media who were “to blame for the Brunello scandal”. (more…)