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A New Year in the Vineyard
This time of year vineyards look so bare and sad; their last scrap of glorious, gypsy-colored leaf blown away and trampled into the mud. Vines are chained together like prisoners, gnarled shoulders hunched like beggars against the rain.
A Focus on 'Vineyard Presence'
A healthy vineyard environment is resistant to pests and disease, which protects the longevity of the vineyard, and results in the production of quality fruit, year after year. Sustainable agriculture is like exercising— it may seem like a lot of work, but the dividends in terms of health, longevity and ...
A Paean Salute
This month is our paean salute, our end-of-winter bonfire, our celebration of everything wine symbolizes—good food, warmth, red berries and red lips, sunlight and firelight, and most of all, the mystery of earth's bounty and man's eagerness to preserve it. Some zinfandels are elegant yet barbaric contenders for a Gallic ...
TN: 2004 Brancaia "Ilatraia"
Brancaia hits a foul ball with their 2004 release of their Ilatraia. Gritty tannins as expected from such a young wine but what caused my tastebuds to take pause was a heavy, heavy concentration of g...
Rock Shrimp Arribiata & Brancaia
Forum: Food....and Wine Posted By: Dick Krueger Post Time: 12-21-2007 at 03:03 AM
OWS#9: Sydney Royal Wine Show (Part 2)
OWS#9 brings the final episode in the Sydney Royal Wine Show twin-pack. Probably our biggest show yet! There's 3 interviews and 2 bottle reviews and I must apologise for the delay. It takes hours and hours to get everything together. I probably should have split it into three smaller chunks ...
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Couple of ST's: Brancaia and Fontodi
Thanks for the note on the Brancais. One of my favorite wine shops has this in stock, and I've never had an Italian Merlot.
TN: 1993 Brancaia "Il Blu"
Hmmm....this can't be a 1993 can it?? If it is, this is just the "old" Brancaia, which was Sangiovese and Merlot. The Brancaia "Il Blu" I thought was only first produced just a few years ago. Maybe with the 1999 vintage?
Maybe I'm thinking...
Couple of ST's: Brancaia and Fontodi
Greetings Italian enophiles....I regret I've been fairly inactive on the board for close to a year. And it's been a busy year as my wife, Misti and I, completely rennovated a gorgeous home on a bayou
TN: 2004 Brancaia "Ilatraia"
I held off on this despite the tremendous 2003 because of the mixed reviews in a purportedly better vintage and the fact that I loaded up on the 03... it's a bummer to hear but at least it's a wine I
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