Located in the Veneto region, the 123-acre Brigaldara estate commands a hill near San Floriano, overlooking the Marano Valley. The vineyards are planted on terraces between 150 and 250 meters above sea level and are planted with the traditional grape varieties of the Valpolicella…
Read this piece Brigaldara, Monte Faustino & Sant’Elena – Italian Wineries December 2012
Warm, gregarious, energetic, and smart, Fred Buonanno was the kind of guy that Mendocino County needed when he and wife Heather McKelvey bought their property in…
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A certain number of women winemakers, especially from California, are responsible for the wines that I select each year. Since I evaluate the wines first, I…
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As Thanksgiving approaches, we’re inundated with advice about which wines to serve at the feast. Some voices advocate for certain wines, others for different ones. And…
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Located on one of the highest hilltops in the Chianti Classico region, Volpaia is a walled village built in the 11th Century on the Florence-Siena border.…
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The Pellegrini family has been in almost every phase of the wine business, beginning with Nello and Gino Pellegrini, who were grape merchants during Prohibition and…
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I love wine, but I don’t love it everywhere. I learned that lesson the hard way during a sweltering week in early August when I visited…
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The historic estate of La Montecchia lies in the Euganean hills of the Veneto region, 15 kilometers south of Padua. The Capodilista family can be traced…
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Stephen Sterling grew up with his three brothers on a cattle ranch in California’s Central Valley. During the summer, they worked from six-thirty in the morning…
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Both philosophical thought and common sense tell us that in order to understand a thing fully, we need to be acquainted with its opposite. We identify…
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