2010 i Vigneti di Albino Armani Pinot Grigio May 23, 2012January 14, 2016Nick Comment Pinot Grigio (or sometimes Pinot Gris), it’s somewhere between crisp, refreshing, elegant, refined, and innocuous. Pinot Grigio usually produces deeper golden wines with [...]
2011 Rivata Moscato D’Asti May 7, 2012December 6, 2015Nick Comment Moscato is one of those wines that has taken off like a rocket in the last few years. Fueled by an easy to [...]
2010 Caleo Salice Salentino May 1, 2012February 5, 2016Nick Comment Negroamaro, the black bitter, is a brutish, brooding grape from Southern Italy. Forged in the fiery sun of the Italian summer, this wine [...]
2009 Banfi Centine Bianco February 22, 2012February 5, 2016Nick Comment Every now and then the Italians bust out of the traditional mould, and create some off the wall blend that inexplicably works. In [...]
2009 Mandra Rossa Nero D’Avola January 3, 2012February 5, 2016Nick Comment Coming from a Sicilian family, it only seemed appropriate to have a Sicilian wine. While Sicily can be renown for it’s dessert [...]
Cantine Maschio Brut Prosecco December 31, 2011January 14, 2016Nick Comment Lets slide one last one under the door for New Year’s Eve. Hailing from Treviso, Italy, this Brut is a much more affordable [...]
Nando Fior Di Pesco December 31, 2011January 14, 2016Nick Comment There’s wine. Then there’s wine that awkwardly tastes like things it isn’t. Nando Fior di Pesco is one of the later. It’s a [...]
Bortolomiol Cartizze Prosecco December 28, 2011January 14, 2016Nick Comment France is of course not the only player that can show up for a holiday sparkler gathering. Hailing from Italy, the often dry [...]
Riunite Lambrusco November 30, 2011March 9, 2016Nick Comment Emilia-Romagna has an interesting problem. On the one hand, it’s known as one of the most amazing places in Italy to have a [...]
Southern Italy: Apulia & Sicily November 25, 2011November 25, 2011Nick Comment On this episode, plenty of deep red, earthy wines, with lots of Italian flare, including: The real heel of Italy, Apulia Always getting [...]