In Organic Wines Episode #1 – How to Better Understand Organic Wines Anthony and Steve explain the labeling of organic wines, sustainable wines, biodynamic wines and natural sulfites and added sulfites from the organic wine section of Mid Valley Wine and Liquor.
HIANTI CLASSICO VESCINE: HISTORY, TRADITION, PASSION AND THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE CHIANTI CLASSICO TERRITORY. Our winery is located in the municipality of Radda in Chianti (Siena Province). An original historic town at 550 meters over sea level, right in the heart of Chianti Classico (Tuscany). The taste of our wines respects the history and tradition of this fabulous and unique territory. Vèscine winery is located into the cellar of Castelvecchi castle whose origins date back to the XI century (more than 1.000 years ago) . It is one of the oldest and beautiful places in the Chianti Classico area. The castle was built in order to protect the historic church: Pieve of Santa Maria Novella. Vèscine vineyards follow the sweet lines designed by the rolling hills of the Chianti Classico. The average altitude of 560 meters on the sea level is playing an important role in order to obtain wines rich in aroma and in polyphenols. The grapes and all the viticulture operations are made by hand in order to obtain the top quality. Brand Manager: Dott.Vincenzo Protti Mail:v.protti@vescine.it Cell:+39 335 82.39.013
www.bkwine.com — Part 1 of the interview with Piero Lanza, co-owner (together with his sister) and winemaker at Fattoria Poggerino, a classic and biodynamic winery and farm. Poggerino is a winery located in Radda in Chianti in Italy, at the heart of the Tuscan wine region. Its a small vineyard and winery, 43 hectares with 11 hectares of vineyards with mainly sangiovese. They make a rose wine, primary purpose it to increase the quality of the red wine. The base red is called Il Labirinto made from sangiovese from young vines. Then they make a Chianti Classico Poggerino, aged for 12 months in French oak barrels a classic Tuscan wine with original character. Next is a Chianti Classico Riserva Bugialla, which is the name of a small vineyard plot with old wines. They also have an IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) which is called Primamateria, which is more in a New World style (albeit Italian). The Chianti Classico is made from sangiovese. They also have some merlot planted which they mainly use for their super Tuscany. Some of the wines are aged in French oak barrels, barriques, but they dont want to get too much oak character. The ideal is to make wine with unique regional and terroir character. A genuine Chianti / Tuscany / Italian wine producer. Dont miss part 2 where Piero Lanza talks about organic and biodynamic farming. www.poggerino.com Music: George Wood, One more for the road, www.podsafeaudio.com By bkwine, http See all our wine videos on our bkwine TV channel: www.youtube.com
Two wines debuting on Vintages shelves, a white and a red, remind us that some of the greatest Ontario wineries are only sparsely represented on LCBO shelves.
Native Australian and winemaker for Cupcake Vineyards, Adam Richardson, opened our conversation with “It takes a lot of beers to make a good wine.” This comment caught us off-guard.
Last week, we looked at Messina Hof Winery’s challenge to the world of wines when 12 of their wines were compared in blind tastings with internationally acclaimed wines. Those wines were tasted on a blind basis by 10 top wine tasters. Since I love red wines in the winter, let’s look at how three of Messina Hoff’s red wines compared against “the others.” The three reds I want to compare consist …
Posted February 6, 2010 
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