May
30
I Custodi
Mount Etna is a current darling of the Italian wine scene, and I Custodi is among the 21st-century Etna Renaissance producers who are now making wines as compelling as the active volcano’s cooled lava flows. Founder Mario Paoluzi has teamed up with Etna guru Salvo Foti and I Vigneri, the local vineyard workers who tend […]
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May
30
Alice
At a glance: – Grower Prosecco from the base of the Dolomites. – Brut is house style, and has been since the beginning. – Classy, elegant, mineral driven Prosecco: wild apples, and mountain flowers – instead of a fruit-forward style (as you see in Extra Dry). – Long charmat, bottle fermented pet-nat, and metodo classico […]
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May
30
Denny Bini
Practicing organic, 7 ha. (of which 3 ha. are bought grapes from a neighbour who has a certified organic vineyard on his agroturismo). Marl and sand soils. After too many years of industrially-produced mediocrity, Emilia is now home to a small but growing cell of artisanal producers who are farming carefully and returning to the […]
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May
30
FUSO
If any country can teach us about life’s small pleasures – such as enjoying a delicious and characterful daily drinker – it’s Italy! FUSO’s our project to search for and bottle natural wines from farmers we know here in Italy. We work with them choosing specific vineyards and are present for fermentation, élevage, sample tasting, […]
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May
30
Mirco Mariotti
Beach vines! Beach wines! The unique Bosco Eliceo has vines on the beach, and a long tradition of making frizzante metodo ancestrale wines with extremely old vines, some reaching more than 100 years old. Ernest first met Mirco Mariotti over ten years ago in the castle-and-moat city of Ferrara, where he was then living. The city is […]
