White & Rosé Wines
Tastings and reviews dedicated to white and rosé wines.
Girofle a Fixed Idea: Raise Your Glass
I'm generally not a rosé lover, I never have been, but during my "complicated relationship" with the world of wine, I've learned never to approach anything with preconceptions. At a tasting I was offered as a first wine a rosato that would immediately capture my sympathy...
Sauvignon Ferruccio Sgubin: Collio meets the sea (at the table)
Hunger knocking at your stomach, car near one of your favorite restaurants in the area: you stop. I'm at Mamma Perdonami, in the province of Padova, the weather is warm but made pleasant by a light breeze, the flower beds are green and well-tended and flanked by the aromatic herbs used in the kitchen: we decisively sit outside!
Komic: the Family Sauvignon
Today we'll take you on a little journey into the wines of Friuli! We'll be tasting one of the whites that, when crafted in a certain way, win over my palate: a Sauvignon. The winery this time is Komic, run by brothers Francesco, Cla...
Baccabianca: Cortese like Guido
Guido Zampaglione is a figure in the wine world who intrigues me greatly – he has, ever since I first tasted one of his wines, and the intrigue only deepened when I read his résumé. A varied background that began with a degree...
Fish courses, no Fiano was ever more appropriate
Dinner with fish and Fiano 2010 Terredora: the pleasure of inconsistency After a string of intense work days, it does you good to relax with a restaurant dinner, avoiding dishes to wash and the effort of thinking about what to cook!Obviousl...
The emotions of a Cuprese from 1992
Colonnara, a cooperative with 110 members, is a wonderful Marche-based producer located in the Castelli di Jesi area, in the municipality of Cupramontana. It is a producer deeply committed to enhancing the distinctive qualities of Verdicchio, a grape that never ceases to amaze us with the wines it produces...
Montonico White Wine, an Abruzzo Native Grape
Santapupa Abruzzo Doc Montonico 2012 Today we rediscover an ancient native white-berry grape variety from the hills of Teramo, particularly from the inland area of the municipality of Bisenti. Ciapparone, bottato, racciapollona are some of the synonyms...
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...