White & Rosé Wines
Tastings and reviews dedicated to white and rosé wines.
Vermentino, Old Sea Wolf
There is no doubt that Vermentino loves the sea. Its past is unclear: some say it comes from the Orient, others from Anatolia, others from the Iberian Peninsula. What we know for certain is that, after a brief stop in France, it settled in ...
Tasting of Cervaro della Sala wine
Cervaro della Sala 2010 Castello della Sala Marchese Antinori The wine Cervaro della Sala is an I.G.T. produced in Umbria from chardonnay and grechetto grapes from vines approximately twenty years old grown in a hilly area between two hundred and four hundred meters of altitude...
Tasting of the award-winning Frascati wine
We start from the territory and history of this Frascati wine. Agronomists, oenologists, winemakers and the centuries-old history of Frascati tell us that the Castelli Romani represent a territory with an extremely high wine-making vocation. The volcanic soils capable of lending elegance to the wine...
Beati among Abruzzo's White Wines
Last summer we managed to organize a visit to Cantina Torre dei Beati, before the owner, Fausto Albanesi, tried to take a few well-deserved days of vacation, and thanks to his great availability, by mid-morning we were in his hands, ready to visit the cantina of Torre dei Beati...
Gewurztraminer: does price make the difference?
A head-to-head between Elena Walch and Cantine del Coppiere PrefaceBefore diving into the article, a preface: I believe that price does not always make the difference and that often lesser-known wineries (perhaps with lower prices) can pleasantly surprise us – will this be a similar situation?
Rosé wines, second-rate wines?
This is the time of year to taste them at their best. I'm talking about rosé wines, the bane and delight of Italian winemaking. They represent a small slice of the market and are unjustly considered second-rate wines, although they are part of the tra...
Pecorino Compared
Casalfarneto e Cantina Tollo Having returned to the spotlight only in the last decade, Pecorino is certainly a wine with great potential that is receiving wide acclaim among wine lovers and industry insiders. The grape variety originates...
Gewurztraminer the challenge continues
ITALY-GERMANY, THE CHALLENGE CONTINUES… What are its origins? Some say Alsace, others Termeno in the province of Bolzano. The fact is that for the first time the name appears in the "Book of Nature" by Megenberg, dean of the cathedral of Regensburg, cit...