Italian Wine News
ANTEPRIMA Brunello ’16, Barolo ’17, Barbaresco ’18 [07th & 08th 10/2020]
The Institute of Masters of Wine, London Despite COVID Vinexus yet again desired to promote Italy’s finest with its annual ANTEPRIMA in London, presenting the new vintages of Brunello, Barolo and Barbaresco pre-release. For many in the London trade this was their first trade tasting since the lockdown and so we’d like to thank all […]
3 months ago
VINTAGE UPDATE 2020
20th August. The Italian harvest has already started for some of the earlier ripening varieties. For most, producers are cleaning their presses! Here are some reflexions on the eve of 2020 harvest: Despite COVID, producers have been very active in the vineyards through the year and have been able to carry out all vineyard work […]
5 months ago
VINEXUS ANTEPRIMA 2019
Every year Vinexus holds its ANTEPRIMA Barolo, Brunello, Barbaresco. This year was special. Rarely do two great vintages, for very different reasons, come one after the other and in the case Barolo and Brunello, this means they are released together. In October, at the INSTITUTE OF MASTERS OF WINE, Vinexus showed some of the best […]
1 year ago
Chianti Classico : The Communes
THE iconic Tuscan red is at once arguably the most respected and the most misunderstood wine in Italy’s rich vinous tapestry. In production under the Chianti banner since the Middle Ages, Chianti Classico is the star of that magical land of mountain, hill and valley, of oak, pine, cypress and chestnut, of vineyard and olive […]
1 year ago
Barolo 2015, Barbaresco 2016, Brunello 2014
Vintage Barolo 2015 – Seen in an historic context, 2015 had to be good. 2014 had failed to excite – and that’s putting it mildly (in fact, for a late-ripener like Nebbiolo, 2014 turned out after all the damning journalistic dice were irretrievably cast to be surprisingly well typed and easily enjoyable; but thereby hangs […]
2 years ago
VINEXUS VENDEMMIA ITALIA REPORT 2018
Source: produttori e assoenologi Here’s the definitive picture for the 2018 Vintage Italia: 52 million HL of wine and must were produced in Italy which is +24% on 2017. There has been an abundance of quantity compared to most recent vintages but quality is somewhat heterogeneous, with good for the most part and […]
2 years ago
Renato Trestini: Italian Wine Ambassador
Renato Trestini was perhaps more than any other individual responsible for introducing quality Italian wines to the UK market. In 1969 he was working in London as a barman at Dukes Hotel in St. James when he heard the call. “I’m going to be a wine merchant”, he suddenly knew. It was a revelation, not quite perhaps on a par with that of Saul of Tarsus, but with this similarity: that it would shape the rest of his life.
3 years ago
The Anteprime of Tuscany
Every year, around mid-February, the wine producers of Tuscany put aside their political squabbling and competitive argy-bargy for a short time and treat the world’s wine press to a series of surprisingly well planned and co-ordinated tastings of the various creations of the heartland of Italian fine wine.
3 years ago
Vinexus 2017 Pre- Harvest Report Italia – “Una situazione complicata” 10th August 2017
At the beginning of August, Italy is already preparing for harvest which is expected to be earlier than usual all over the country from the “metodo classico” grapes of Franciacorta, to the whites and reds of the south. A very hot summer, with very little rain, has some producers already comparing 2017 with the extreme 2003 vintage.
3 years ago
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