“iDealwine and the Wine Barometer.”
Today we are at Alessandro Pipero in Rome, together with Sara Cintelli from The Wine Linker, for the presentation of a company that has now become a benchmark in the world of fine wine auctions thanks to its online platform. Honestly speaking, I don’t know if or when I will ever buy a fine wine at auction. What is certain, however, is that a lunch with a tasting at Alessandro Pipero definitely deserved my attention. (more…)
Life of Wine 2022: An Event Not to Be Missed.
73 wineries, 350 wines available at the tasting counters, and above all more than 200 older vintages ready to be poured into our glasses. (more…)
“Life of Wine – 11th Edition” Sunday, October 23, Hotel Villa Pamphili in Rome
Life of Wine 11th Edition
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
Hotel Villa Pamphili, Rome (more…)
Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2022 – THE RESULTS OF THE SWEET & FORTIFIED WINES SESSION ARE ONLINE!
The Concours Mondial de Bruxelles has just announced the results of the fourth and final tasting session of this year. Entirely dedicated to sweet and fortified wines, the session, composed of 50 judges, awarded silver, gold and grand gold medals to wines from 20 countries. (more…)
The Numbers of Wining
We started slowly, but consistency has defined our journey. Always equipped with notebooks, cameras and a drone, at the first pit stop we tried to take stock and see what Bordolese.it contained: 468 articles and about 160 videos, plus a series of collaborations with our friends at Vinodabere.it and a few appearances here and there on national and international juries. (more…)
September 15 – Lugana Armonie Senza Tempo, tasting event dedicated to the Lugana Doc
Villa Piccolomini – via Aurelia Antica 164 – Rome (more…)
September 18, 2022 LAZIO WINE EXPERIENCE, a major food and wine event aimed at promoting the gastronomy and wine culture of the Lazio region.
LAZIO WINE EXPERIENCE was created from the awareness of the great quality that the food and wine production of our region can offer today and from the equally important need to communicate it. (more…)
Wine Tourism Movement – Open Wineries During Harvest in September and October at participating wineries
In September and October 2022 at wineries affiliated with the Movimento Turismo del Vino Open Wineries During Harvest is just around the corner
The MTV events continue
Guided tastings, lunches, dinners and vineyard tours during the harvest
The food and wine calendar continues
launched with Calici di Stelle (more…)
Art and Wine: An Intriguing Liaison for Mandrarossa’s New “Season”
It was needed. Not a restaurant, not a hotel, but an art gallery. Or rather a “concept place” — I must admit I wouldn’t quite know how to define it, given how much I liked it — like the Contemporary Cluster at Palazzo Brancaccio, chosen to help us wine-addicted understand what has been happening at Mandrarossa during the pandemic.
Where to begin, if not with the visual approach that the location itself imposes…
New labels, a rebranding focused on essentials, and a visual language that welcomes guests with large panels distributed throughout the main hall. Wine bottles scattered across the bookshelves of the Contemporary Cluster, with Nero d’Avola and Grillo placed among shelves full of design magazines.
And then a new corporate video — a medium that the winery has always paid great attention to — this time focused more on family than on territory.
“The Sicily you don’t expect” is the payoff that dominates this Roman afternoon. But after seeing what happens during their Wineyard Tours, I’ve come to expect this and more from Mandrarossa. The association with art, however, was something I truly did not anticipate.
To be honest, I also didn’t expect the presentation of the new Larcéra Terre Siciliane IGT 2021, an organic Vermentino, during a masterclass where I had the chance to taste several wines. Among the whites: Fiano Terre Siciliane IGT 2021, Grillo Sicilia DOC 2021, Bertolino Soprano Bianco Sicilia DOC 2018, and Santannella Terre Siciliane IGT 2021 — all characterized by pronounced sapidity and freshness.
Alongside them, two expressions of Nero d’Avola (Nero d’Avola Sicilia DOC 2021 and Terre del Sommacco Rosso Sicilia DOC 2017), quite different from one another but both marked by soft tannins and remarkable drinkability.
A different kind of afternoon: with Sicilian tradition at heart, but also with a strong innovative instinct that this time found expression not only in the wine but also in art — and, as always, in that ability to balance communication, formality and hospitality in a way that inevitably makes you feel at home.
