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...

 With the Evid-Action program entering a new and more ambitious round this October, it is no big surprise to see a higher demand for alcohol free alternatives.  This is something that is also noticeable at the shop where I work. More and more people come around expressing their concerns about the consumption of alcohol and asking for alternatives to be present at their table.  Even though my first comment tends to be for the customers to drink less but better, I do recognize and understand this general worry.   Having a toddler home, I also look a bit around what the market has to offer in this particular segment that has been growing in quite a fascinating and fast way. And that's how I came across this alcohol free Lambrusco. Recommended by a friend who works in a wine shop close to where I live, I have recently bought a bottle.  Even though it has 8 grams of residual sugar, which is not really atypical for a Lambrusco, it reveals itself as pleasantly f...