Do Bianchi
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“We were wrong about natural wine.” Overheard at TexSom.
Arguably the most interesting thing overheard by an intrepid wine blogger at TexSom this year was the following. Wine sales are down, observed one speaker at a break-out session. But natural wine sales continue to stay steady. We need to… Continue reading
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Doctor Vino: “The Best Lambrusco of our Lifetime.” 97 points for the Lini 910 Lambrusco Metodo Classico.
“It is not easy,” writes longtime Italian wine critic and expert Daniele Cernilli and one of the founders of Gambero Rosso, “even for a Lambrusco aficionado, to imagine what a Lambrusco made with the classic method and disgorged 19 years… Continue reading
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Lini 910 certified “sustainable” by Equalitas, certification organizer led by Federdoc and Unione Italiana Vini.
The historic Lini 910 winery in Correggio (Reggio Emilia province, Emilia-Romagna) is the first winery in Emilia to have obtained “Sustainability Certification” according to the strict standards established by the Italian certification organization Equalitas. Equalitas is a project launched by Federdoc… Continue reading
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Bacchus loves Lambrusco: Inspiration for Lini’s “Labrusca” label
The Lini Lambrusco USA blogger visited the winery in Correggio last week and snapped the above photo. That label, with the distinctive Bacchus drawing, was created expressly for a village fair that Lini hosted in 1972. It would later be… Continue reading
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No tariff relief in sight for EU wine growers. Hard times expected ahead.
Above: a cellar-full of high-end Italian wine at a leading Italian restaurant in Florida. All Italian wines are now being taxed with a 15 percent tariff. There are no indicators that the Trump administration will lift those levies in the… Continue reading
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How do Americans perceive Italian wines today?
One of my best friends in the Italian wine business — a Tuscanophile Paduan a few years older than me, a veteran of the industry and one of the wisest wine professionals I know — sent me the following query:… Continue reading
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When Barolo met Sex and the City.
It was probably inevitable that our family would be drawn into the hype about the “And Just Like That…” revival finale last week. Some of the themes are arguably too mature for our girls, 12 and 13. But how could… Continue reading
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Italian wineries, partners scramble to avoid new tariff rate.
Late on Thursday last week, the wire came in: the new tariff rate for all goods from the EU rose to 15 percent, a five-point increase from the 10 percent that had been imposed since April (before the current administration,… Continue reading
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Hopeful wine news from Europe, great wine news from Houston.
When the subject of tariffs came up with a Trump-supporting friend the other day, she didn’t have the faintest idea of how it is decimating the European wine trade in the U.S. Wow, she said, it never occurred to her… Continue reading
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One of the things I’m going to miss about Italy this summer is a perfectly draft beer.
Tracie, the girls, and I won’t be going to Italy this summer. That’s partly due to the fact that Tra is so busy with work right now (which is great). But our absence from our spiritual homeland this season is… Continue reading
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