White & Rosé Wines
Tastings and reviews dedicated to white and rosé wines.
Vermentino, Old Sea Wolf
There is no doubt that Vermentino loves the sea. Its past is unclear: some say it comes from the Orient, others from Anatolia, others from the Iberian Peninsula. What we know for certain is that, after a brief stop in France, it settled in ...
Tasting of Cervaro della Sala wine
Cervaro della Sala 2010 Castello della Sala Marchese Antinori The wine Cervaro della Sala is an I.G.T. produced in Umbria from chardonnay and grechetto grapes from vines approximately twenty years old grown in a hilly area between two hundred and four hundred meters of altitude...
Tasting of the award-winning Frascati wine
We start from the territory and history of this Frascati wine. Agronomists, oenologists, winemakers and the centuries-old history of Frascati tell us that the Castelli Romani represent a territory with an extremely high wine-making vocation. The volcanic soils capable of lending elegance to the wine...
Trebbiano Altare Marramiero, the Vertical Tasting
We have already covered the wines of the Abruzzo winery Marramiero, which I had the fortune of visiting last April. The most recent review dates back to the Brut Rosé metodo classico, tasted at the Roman restaurant Piero & Francesco and ...
Locorotondo: an Ancient and Underappreciated Wine
Locorotondo is a white wine produced between Bari and Brindisi whose DOC is rooted in the Valle d'Itria area, specifically in the municipalities of Locorotondo (of course!), Cisternino and Fasano. The permitted grape varieties are Verdeca (50-65%), Bianco d'Alessano...
Chardonnay 2005 Planeta, the Color of Sicily
We tasted one of the flagship wines of the Planeta winery. This Sicilian producer has only been operating since the mid-1990s, despite the family's agricultural tradition dating back to the 1500s. So much so that ownership of the estate is shared among some fifteen cousins...
Gewurztraminer: a wine with a special status
Valle d'Aosta, or Vallée d'Aoste in French – as Grosjean also notes on its labels – is one of Italy's special statute regions and the smallest in the Belpaese. It is surrounded by the Alps and the four highest peaks in Europe: Monte...
Vitovska Čotar: few words, great taste
Vasja Čotar is not exactly what we would call a "people person" – getting a word out of him is truly difficult! You can't even get him to talk about his wines; he's reserved, blunt, and the way he talks about his products makes them sound like ordinary tavern wines...
Rosa Caolino: a rosè wine born in Sicily
When we hear about Sicily, many wines come to mind, many important producers and wines that have found their place on the Italian market. But the product you are about to drink is a different wine. A rosato born in P...
You Read Solleone, You Drink Passion
The Monferrato Sauvignon by Guido Zampaglione There are wines that, before uncorking them, I convince myself must have the right interlocutor with whom to speak the same language. These are my own false convictions that often push me to take a step back if I'm not sure that what I consider sublime for my palate can be so for others as well...
Soave: Il Casale and Terre Lunghe, Different Twins
As I see it, the role of a sommelier, taster, and wine expert is to share and spread the word as much as possible about products and wineries that deserve it! That's why some time ago I told you about Azienda Agricola Vicentini. Today I want to tell you about two excellent products from the good Agostino...
Catalanesca Montesomma Vesuvio explosion of flavor
With intense colors, intoxicating aromas and marked minerality, the white wines from volcanic territories absorb all the peculiarities of those unique soils, giving us irreplicable wines. In this article we will focus in particular on Vesuvian wines that are...