Venetian wine

Rather than only water

Saturday, May 13, 2006

How many wine producers there are in Italy?



There are about 800000 wine producers in Italy, but this number includes wine firms (grapes are grown and trasformed into wine in the same place), and wine company (they produce wine but they don't grow grapes).
Every producer usually has 5-6 kinds of wine (e.g. white, red, rosè and different kinds of grape), so if you try to multiply the producer by kinds of wine, you will find how many different wines there are in Italy.
This one of reasons why you never find the same aroma in a bottle of two different producers.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Romagna's Sangiovese


The Romagna's Sangiovese is great wine but it's difficult to find a good bottle of this wine.
Its features are character, quite alcohol, and tannin.
It has a beautiful aroma. You could find a lot of smells, e.g. violet, blackberry, plum, and pepper.
The good way for drinking this wine is with a meatfood dishes.
It usually has 2 or 3 years, but a good choice is Reserve that can age 5-10 years.
Its famous brother is Tuscany's Sangiovese that has many names dipends where it grows.

I like Sangiovese, especially its aroma and character.

..more Romagna's Sangiovese and less...

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Hard to discover


Monday night I went to winebar because I wanted to drink something (everytime is Ok to drink something).
My friend said that he wanted to drink something from Piemonte (wine, of course) and I was agree.
After many propositions we choose a bottle of Langhe Nebbiolo. The year was 1999 and the producer is Mascarello.
In a first time the smells weren't very good, I smelled something like wet barrel and strong alcohol. We had to wait a long time to smell a good fragrance, but then it was very interesting. The Nebbiolo was great and its smells were raspberry, vanilla and pepper.
Hard to discover... but a wine worth testing