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Taste the Italian Wines Once Made by Monks via Monte del Fra at @VanWineFest 2024 #Valpolicella #Custoza #Lugana #Soave #Bardolino #Amarone #somm #winelover @PatagoniaImpor1

Wineries change hands over time, but you do not often hear of a winery with a vineyard going from monks to lay people.  Monte del Frà is one of those wineries and we are lucky to have the winery attending VanWineFest 2024.  Their wines are in our market already, but you can get a chance to speak with a winery principal and maybe taste some wines brought specially for the Festival.  Here is…

Light amber-garnet in the glass, looking like great Pinot: something Corvina in Bardolino often looks–and tastes–quite like. And I’m loving the new classified–and legal–sub-regions plainly on the front label. This is Cru Montebaldo: in the northern section of Bardolino, at the foothills of the Alps. Leathery fruit in the nose, but so bright: strawberry and firm plum, Granny Smith with glorious…

Light garnet with a golden edge. Big vegetal crisper nose, roiled in earthy goodness and the plaster of the Old World. Dark, rich fruit: cherry and apricot and deep red plum fill the fruit-quotient nicely, and the whole thing is still and pleasant and ripely sweet. “Delicious” is the only way to describe it in the mouth. Bristling with acid, it piquantly presses its fruity nuances carefully into…

Chiaretto di Bardolino: al via la nuova campagna trade negli Stati Uniti

Il Consorzio di tutela del Chiaretto e del Bardolino inaugura negli Stati Uniti una nuova campagna commerciale dedicata al Chiaretto di Bardolino, il vino rosa della sponda veronese del lago di Garda, leader di settore in Italia. L’iniziativa, che si articola in due specifiche tranche dedicate l’una agli importatori, distributori e buyer di vino e l’altra ai sommelier di alcuni dei migliori…

Hot hot HOT here on the coast in California this weekend and rosé sounded like the name of the game. Couple little bottles jumped out at me, again: an American and a Euro.

I crammed my nose into the pink one first, and OH BOY. What a stinky little nose. And not so little. Funky and dank and barnyardy, old veggies in teh bottom crisper drawer and a petrol elevation of the deep watermelon fruit.…