Wine Fictions

 While listening to a podcast by Ricardo Felner  about the decay on the consumption  of wine he came with a sentence that I found particularly accurate by stating that there is no safe level of alcohol ingest but that it makes every meal better and that he is not willing to give up the possibilities that it opens. This is a vision that I also share along with a more critical approach to what you drink. If organic wines have gone through a deep revolution in the last twenty years, being now widely accepted by the large majority of the customers, that same path is now being trodden by nature wines. Somewhere in between conventionally organic farmed and nature wines there are the low intervention ones which seek to find a deeper identification with the terroir and its native yeasts without tending too much on wild flavours which often keep skepticals away. This Sangiovese from Chiara Condello is a good example of it. Originary from Predappio, this Sangiovese has a strong min...

 Not too long ago I was taken by a friend of mine to the magnificent Schloss Vollrads in Rheingau. If you have had the opportunity to visit it, I think it is not hard to imagine that I have directly fallen in love with it. If you haven't had the opportunity to visit it, I recommend you a quick look at this video . A couple of days later, while reading Hugh Johnson 's The Story of Wine I have come across a reference to the same Schloss Vollrads as being one of the oldest settlements in the Rheingau region producing wine. When coming across this reference, I thought it was more than enough of a sign to open this bottle in a feeble attempt to relive the incredible sensations that invaded me after having been in such an amazing place.  In fact, when I was there I have tried the Brut while standing in the yard continuously admiring the set of medieval buildings.  Having particularly appreciated it, I have decided to buy the Extra Brut. Being a huge fan of Riesling I wanted to...