Joel | January 27, 2010
Podere Sapaio Volpolo, Bolgheri Rosso DOC
The words “experimentation” and “innovation” are a lot like guns: get the wrong people involved and things can go terribly wrong.
But, at Podere Sapaio, where experimentation and innovation in seeking new expressions of Bordolese (Bordeaux) vines in Bolgheri is the ruling philosophy, we need not worry: owner Massimo [...]
Joel | January 20, 2010
Tenuta Vitanza Brunello di Montalcino Le Paturnie 2003
A small preparation will be helpful:
Before reading further, I suggest you clear your schedule for three minutes and entrust yourself to the graceful power that is dancer Polina Semionova.
Warning: This Video Contains Scenes of Graphic Beauty.
Thank you, Polina. OK, it’s time for our topic, Tenuta Vitanza’s Brunello [...]
Joel | December 2, 2009
Castello di Nipozzano Montesodi Chianti Rufina 2003, DOCG
Have you ever tasted the elegance of musical form or mathematic equation?
Does the Ear recognize what Taste knows to be the bitter sweetness of chocolate?
I believe we communicate and reinterpret information across the senses all the time; actually, it seems to me to be a key part of [...]
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 [...]
