Joel | November 18, 2009
Poggio Argentiera Bellamarsilia 2006, DOC
Open your mind to the impressions of sound.
OK? Listen carefully:
Bellamarsilia.
B-E-L-L-A-M-A-R-S-I-L-I-A.
A wine whose nature is communicated by the soft, round, warm, open sounds of its name.
From Poggio Argentiera, this Morellino di Scansano named Bellamarsilia is at once typical of Maremma yet drinks with a unique interpretation of spirit and place.
What we’d [...]
Joel | November 10, 2009
Valdinera Langhe Favorita Bricco della Quaglia 2008, DOC
On Saturdays, I like to disappear. I fade from my weekly routine and travel vicariously to destinations that, at least for the moment, capture my culinary imagination: I head for the food markets.
I wear eye glasses and am accustomed to lenses. So, what I am about [...]
Joel | November 6, 2009
Bisson Bianchetta Genovese “U Pastine” Golfo Del Tigullio 2007, DOC
I’ve written before that beauty doesn’t always arrive to great fanfare and announcement. I find this especially true of wine. Wines often reveal their beauty slowly: gradual, unhurried, nonchalant as in the grandest of seductions.
Bisson’s Bianchetta Genovese will not arrive to the sound of [...]
Joel | November 2, 2009
Michele Satta Bolgheri Rosso 2006, DOC
Michele Satta Diambra Rosso 2007, IGT
Michele Satta Costa di Giulia 2007, IGT
Before Bolgheri, the coastal wine region of Tuscany in Italy, became famous for its wines, it was famous for its boulevard of historic cypress trees, the *Viale dei Cipressi, immortalized in the poetry of Giosue Carducci who lived in [...]
