our natural wine tasting

I like orange wines, because I find it reasonable to extract the flavors from the skin. and I like metodo ancestrale(nat pet), because I find this method has the advantage of champagne and is much easier to make. orange wines and nat pet are generally natural wines,so I end up buying a lot of natural…

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italian rose,always versatile and often misunderstood

Some people have a misunderstanding about rosato wine, thinking they are not serious wines, only blank drinks with pretty color. but as a wine professional I would say, that’s not true. There are blank pinky drinks for tourists at the seaside and there are the opposite.On October 27th we had a tasting of 6 Umbria…

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Cannonau and Gamay del Trasimeno

We had a tasting of Cannonau & Gamay Trasimemo on 29th October.Both grapes share the same DNA with Grenache/Garnacha, but grow in different regions. Cannonau grows in Sardegna while Gamay Trasinemo grows in Umbria around lago trasimeno. We served 6 wines including 3 single vineyard Cru. The wines tasted Winery wine vintage price (€) (1)…

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Il Frantoio

We wanted to make a trip out of Buonrespiro. An incentive to have dinner outside was a block of the draining pipes to be repaired only the next day. So we decided to go to Lubriano a charming village just on the other side of the Umbria/Lazio border. On the way we visited Casa Vespina…

A drinking trip in the core of umbria wine

usly there are many good wines from other parts of the Umbria too. Some really brilliant sangiovese and elegant but resistant orvieto classico for example. But  they are made of grapes also growing in other regions. while montefalco makes important wines made of typical umbria grapes exclusively. Sagrantino and trebbiano spoletino, this trip is all…

Italian whites can age

Italians don’t believe in the aging potential of their white wines. but they really should. I have rested again and again, and I confirm that a high percentage of italian wines can age really well. Years ago, I imported an entry level orvieto classico to China (Soana, COOP Monrubio). and there was one bottle forgotten…