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WINE DOGS: THE IMPORTANCE OF ANIMALS IN WINE HOSPITALITY

Having a winery dog increases the attractiveness of tourist wineries and wine tourists with a leash are definitely multiplying. In half of the Italian houses there is an animal, often a wine dog

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Wine dog Felix with Violante Gardini Fattoria del Colle

A few years ago books on wine dogs began to come out and then those on wine cats becoming a real trend. The pioneer was the Australian photographer Craig McGill to whom we owe a sort of encyclopaedia of dogs from wineries around the world.

Together with his wife Susan Elliott, he has published books and posts about wine dogs and cats. The second edition of the book on dogs from Californian cellars contains over 120 portraits of the faithful furry friends – from thoroughbreds to mutts – along with short essays by Robert Parker Jr, Nick Ryan, Eve Bushman, Sam Neill and Max Allen. A true celebration of the role of dogs in wine production.

PUBLICATIONS AND REPERTOIRES ON WINE DOGS

In addition to books and calendars, there are Instagram accounts and Facebook pages about wine dogs. In California there are rankings of the most dog friendly wineries. A bestiary so numerous as to suggest that all US wineries have a dog and that it is almost more famous than the wine maker.

The Wine Spectator column has consecrated a liaison between four-legged furry friends and wine lovers. In 2021 subscribers to the famous American wine magazine received this announcement <<In the March 31 issue, on sale next week, we will highlight one of the best parts of the wineries that can be visited: their dogs>>. Well in November 2021 the dog section of the Wine Spectator already contained photos of 1570 readers’ dogs.

9 December 2021

in Farm experiences, Vines and wines

Casato Prime Donne revamps its experiences with Brunello

4 proposals for Brunello lovers who start or deepen their knowledge of Montalcino’s wines and for the fastidious who now know almost everything

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Those who arrive in Montalcino have different curiosities: there are those who know little or nothing about wine and know Brunello almost only by hearsay. Then there are the wine lovers always looking for new experiences and new knowledge about Brunello. Finally, there are those who want only exclusive, exceptional experiences made especially for them.
Casato Prime Donne, in the northern part of the Brunello territory, offers 4 tailor-made experiences for these wine tourists making each of them live something exciting and different from any other winery.

CASATO PRIME DONNE A SPECIAL WINERY FOR SPECIAL CUSTOMERS

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is a very special place: it is the first Italian winery with an all-female staff; it exports to 41 foreign countries and produces wines with very high ratings from the international press. But visitors find something more than a farmhouse from the late sixteenth century full of barrels and vats, there is the story of the history of Montalcino in images, there are installations by contemporary Tuscan artists, which allow you to experience wine in an unusual way. This wealth of different elements enriches the tourist route and has allowed the creation of 4 experiential visit proposals capable of exciting and surprising newcomers and very experienced Brunello enthusiasts too.

For detailed programs and to book just click on the site or call +39 3455495154

2 December 2021

in Farm experiences

4 new experiences for visitors, wine lovers and true experts

Visits with wine tasting and more, proposals that entertain and teach in an unusual and new way at the wine destination Fattoria del Colle

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Those who are tired of going to the cellars and being told about the wine production process should come to the Fattoria del Colle and will discover a wine destination with 400 years of history that makes you live exciting experiences and transfers knowledge in a fun way, for the sole fact of being in and touching them.

NEW DIVERSIFIED WINE EXPERIENCES FOR TOURISTS AND WINE LOVERS

Fattoria del Colle is in the Southern Tuscany, 18 km from the A1 Valdichiana motorway exit. It produces Chianti Superiore and Doc Orcia wines and, together with the Montalcino winery Casato Prime Donne, is owned by Donatella Cinelli Colombini.

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It is therefore the great wine for cellaring that is the protagonist of 4 different tourist proposals designed for those who love the Tuscan countryside and want to discover its roots. Or, for those who are passionate about wine and want to try their hand at experiences different from those proposed by other wineries, they can create their own Supertuscan. Finally, for super wine lovers, a full immersion in the history, cultivation and specificity of Sangiovese with a two-hour lesson held by Wset teachers or professional Sommeliers together with educational visits and guided tastings.

FOR LOVERS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, WINE LOVERS AND FOR GREAT CONNOISSEURS 4 TAILOR-MADE PROPOSALS

All framed by olive groves and vineyards in the most beautiful countryside in the world and with the opportunity to meet the 3 wine makers of the all-female staff of Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s cellars. A lot of tradition and a lot of contagious passion for the great Brunello, Chianti, Supertuscan and Orcia wines.

For information and bookings click on: https://www.cinellicolombini.it/en/tuscany-wine-destination

25 November 2021

Rosso di Montalcino DOC 2019 by Donatella

Rosso di Montalcino BIO (organic) from a 5-star harvest produced with artisan care at Casato Prime Donne, first Italian winery with an all-female staff

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<<In my experience as a wine producer, which is now very long, I remember only two other harvests like this: 2010 and 2016>> said Donatella Cinelli Colombini, commenting the 2019 vintage. A confirmation that Montalcino has had an increasing frequency of excellent vintages thanks to climate change that seems to benefit inland Tuscany.

THE ROSSO DI MONTALCINO 2019 AND THE MORE AND MORE FREQUANT 5 STAR HARVESTS

There are also other changes; contrary to the past, the great harvests of the new millennium, generally, are also abundant in grapes and the vineyards are still in vegetation during the harvest days.

Another feature of 2019 and of the other great recent harvests in Montalcino is the small size of the berries and bunches. <<It seems Cabernet>> the oenologist Valérie Lavigne told Donatella, visiting the vineyards to decide the harvest calendar. A comment that does not do justice to Sangiovese, king of Tuscan oenology, but that had a touch of truth in it because, in 2019, Sangiovese di Montalcino behaved exactly like the most famous French variety by immediately giving a lot of colour to the must.

THE SAME SANGIOVESE AND THE TWO DIFFERENT WINES FROM MONTALCINO

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Rosso di Montalcino comes from the same Sangiovese vineyards where Brunello is born. The grapes are chosen to become one of the two wines based on the component of alcohol, acids and polyphenols that must be more abundant for the type of wine destined for long aging. Very few vines have the extraordinary versatility of Sangiovese in producing excellent young wines and refined bottles to be cellared

But to obtain the two types of wine it is essential to harvest the grapes by hand by dividing the vineyards, according to maturation, into small areas, to be harvested, vinified and aged in barrels separately. An impressive job and a great attention to detail, but it’s worth it, the result is amazing.

16 November 2021

OFFER: ROSSO DI MONTALCINO, SUPERTUSCAN AND ORCIA DOC BIO

12 bottles of family wines rated by wine experts with excellent points, delivered directly to your home with 3 shopping bags so you can gift your friends a bottle or two

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RATINGS FOR THE WINES WE ARE PROPOSING IN THIS OFFER

• Rosso di Montalcino DOC biologico: 90/100 Wine Spectator, 92/100 Vinous Antonio Galloni, 90/100 James Suckling, Medaglia Rossa di Merano Wine Festival
• Supertuscan Il Drago e le 8 Colombe IGT Toscana: 93/100 Robert Parker/Wine Advocate, 92/100 James Suckling, Medaglia Rossa di Merano Wine Festival
• Leone Rosso Orcia Doc biologico: 92/100 James Suckling

WINES PRODUCED IN SMALL QUANTITIES FROM THE VINEYARDS OF OUR ESTATES

We offer you two boxes together containing a total of 12 bottles containing three wines obtained from the Donatella Cinelli Colombini vineyards in Tuscany. They were harvested by hand, vinified and matured in the cellar at Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino and Fattoria del Colle in southern Chianti. The boxes will be delivered directly to your home along with three single shoppers that will allow you, if you wish to give some of these bottles to friends and relatives with their original packaging. In the box there are also the seals with the logo to close the packages. It will be as if you had bought the wine directly in our cellars. All these wines are novelties just released on the market and you can taste them and present them like small “previews from Tuscany”.

12 BOTTLES CONTAINING NEW AND EXCELLENT WINES

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4 bottles of the new Rosso di Montalcino DOC 2019 BIO,
4 bottles of IGT Supertuscan Il Drago e le 8 Colombe 2018,
4 bottles of Leone Rosso Orcia DOC 2019,
3 single shoppers

TIPS ON FOOD PAIRING

– Rosso di Montalcino 2019: is suitable as an aperitif, for lunches with tasty dishes, preferably Tuscan, but also with mushroom pizza, or between meals with semi-aged tuscan pecorino and fontina and with other snacks.
– Supertuscan Il Drago e le 8 Colombe: is a very versatile wine that accompanies Italian but also Asian foods. Try it with ramen or rice from Asian cuisine or with cheeses such as an aged Cheddar, Emmental or Edam, just to mention three cheeses of great history that, if produced by hand in their countries of origin, are extraordinarily good.
– Leone Rosso Orcia Doc: this is also an easy wine to pair with meals and to drink between meals. Better with low-fat and non greasy foods but excellent with grills and burgers of excellent fresh meat or with Italian cold cuts and cheeses such as taleggio.

11 November 2021

IOsonoDonatella Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2015

The Brunello that Donatella Cinelli Colombini gifted herself when she realized that her dream of creating a winery and a wine established in the wine world

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Donatella Cinelli Colombini tells of how she climbed her mountain leaving the comfort of a family of established Brunello producers to create an estate of her own <<in 1998 my parents gave me two properties to renovate in Tuscany, but at the beginning there were no cellars and the vineyards were to be replanted. My small team asked me “if someone calls what must we say” and I replied “you say that we are Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s estates >> a starting point that took her far.

At that time she had many doubts because she remembered her grandfather Giovanni Colombini’s advice <<never give your name to a company because when it is sold it is like giving your identity away>>.

DONATELLA GRANDE DAME OF BRUNELLO BUT ALSO PASSIONATE AND VISIONARY

But Donatella wanted to make it and doubts turned into opportunities because already in 2010 she was able to harvest a great Brunello and six years later she was invited to present the Riserva version, at the most exclusive tasting in the world, the New York Wine Experience.

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A dream come true and that had to be celebrated by transforming the recommendation of her grandfather into a proud statement “IOsonoDonatella” the “pasionaria”, the visionary one who focuses on women, the revolutionary one who opens the Italian cellars to tourists the Grand Dame of Brunello as Vinum has recently called her <<so this is the wine that talks about me>>.

A very small series is born with only her first name on the packaging that tells her past as an art historian and expert in medieval gold-smithing. On the glass bottle there is in fact a glitter shape that forms a ring with her gold logo in the centre as if it were a Gothic seal.
So far 4 vintages of Brunello IOsonoDonatella have been produced: 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 because only the best harvests are used for these small selections of 600 or 1.300 bottles intended for an audience of enthusiasts looking for rare and high quality wines.

4 November 2021

Ryanair and Prosecco

An alliance that promises great things becomes a test bench to re-launch tourism by focusing on low cost flights and on food and wine attractions

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If it works, and we all hope so, it will prove that wine is really the locomotive of the Italian tourism recovery especially in the inland areas and in the low season months.
The Ryanair and Prosecco alliance aims to use online communication on art, gastronomy, shopping, outdoor sports and of course wine, to restart the flows directed to Treviso and the surrounding area. The project started in September and will last until the end of November, involving 11 countries: Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, Poland, Denmark and Latvia.

PROSECCO RYANAIR TO RELAUNCH TOURISM IN VENETO

The marketing strategy to bring tourists to Veneto passes through attractive “calls to action”, content, e-mails and links to pages dedicated to Treviso and its surroundings, including articles in the “Try Somewhere New” platform connected to the Ryanair website which has over 600 million visits a year. An articulated mechanism of social and traditional communication that can count on an endless database of customers who will be offered to book flight and stay in an area rich in culture and food and wine pleasures with Prosecco as a world-famous “testimonial”.

WINE, GASTRONOMY, CULTURE, OUTDOOR SPORTS AS A PROPOSAL TO TRAVELERS FROM 11 COUNTRIES

The collaboration between the Municipal Administration of Treviso, the Consortium for the Protection of Prosecco DOC and Ryanair focuses on the Antonio Canova airport which, before Covid, had a transit of 3.2 million travellers and is now almost deserted.

However, the project does not only concern the municipality of Treviso but has the ambition to reactivate the autumn flows on all 9 provinces of the Prosecco denomination: from the Dolomites, to the Upper Adriatic from the Karst to the Euganean Hills.

28 October 2021

in Farm experiences

New 2021 olive oil, little but organic and good

The heat and drought have drastically reduced the 2021 olives but the extra virgin olive oil is full of flavor. The harvest at the Fattoria del Colle has already begun

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The harvest has just begun but the scarcity of olives is very evident: some trees are entirely fruitless and others have beautiful loaded branches and all the rest of the canopy empty. Apparently it is the moraiolo variety olive trees that have suffered the most. Fortunately, the yield in oil is good and the taste of the golden liquid is intense so just a few drops are enough to fill the vegetables and cooked dishes with flavor.

THE ORGANIC EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL OF THE FATTORIA DEL COLLE

The Fattoria del Colle has two small olive groves for a total of 6 hectares, planted after the frost of 1985 that killed almost all the ancient trees. Only a few olive trees resisted and are along the dirt roads.
In the olive groves there are the varieties Moraiolo and Correggiolo (frantoio) with which we produce a Tuscan DOP blend and two monocultivars. All are organic.

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The area of Trequanda, where the farm is located, has been renowned for centuries for the excellent quality of its extra virgin olive oil. Thanks to its altitude (400 meters above sea level), its ventilation and the calcareous soil, the quality of the oil is spontaneously excellent. The oleic fly is also very rare and therefore there is no need of chemistry. Producing organically is really easy.
Harvesting is done by hand with the help of rakes and nets. Every day the olives arrive in the Sant’Angelo Olive Mill in Castelmuzio which is only a few kilometers from the Fattoria del Colle. The pressing takes place at low temperatures (less than 27 ° C) with a Pieralisi system. The master miller Paolo Bindi has experience and a keen eye to preserve the fragrance of the fruit and its healthy virtues.
The annual production is small and ranges between 10-15Hl. The extra virgin olive oil is stored in the dark and at a controlled temperature in steel vats and then bottled without filtering. It is possible to buy it at Fattoria del Colle or online.

EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL FOR CHILDREN

In addition to the traditional glass bottles since last year the Fattoria del Colle also offers children’s oil packaged in metal jars covered with a label full of GANGHERETTI small monsters designed by the painter Alessandro Grazi.

The cans are small so that children can pick them up on their own (0.25 and 0.50 L) and there is a space where each child can write their name. The Gangheretti are the 92 goblins that legendarily populate the Fattoria del Colle. They are blue, smell of garlic and constantly play pranks.
Extra virgin olive oil is the healthiest food that nature gives us. This is why it is important that children consume it regularly and for this reason it is important to store it in the dark, where there are no smells and in the cool but not in the cold because it freezes long before water. Poor preservation destroys most of the health pros of extra virgin olive oil: oleic acid for example, a monounsaturated fat capable of regulating cholesterol levels. Extra virgin olive oil reduces the likelihood of heart attack, diabetes, cancer and aging.

22 October 2021

TOP WINE FOR THANKSGIVING 2021

October offer: 6 bottles of Brunello 2015 Riserva five star vintage. A great wine with which to celebrate autumn with friends and with the Thanksgiving roast turkey

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The Brunello di Montalcino 2015 Riserva is a fine red apt for long cellaring that can be stored for decades for an important occasion but also opened now to match with the Thanksgiving roasted turkey. Its velvety, powerful and refined character transforms autumn lunches into special occasions to always be remembered.

DON’T MISS THE OCCASION TO CELEBRATE WITH A FINE WELL-RATED WINE BY THE INTERNATIONAL PRESS

The Brunello Riserva 2015 has obtained exceptional rankings from the major international wine critics:
95 Wine Spectator
94 Wine Advocate – Robert Parker
94 Vinous – Antonio Galloni

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93 James Suckling
92 Wine Enthusiast

A SMALL PRESENT FOR THOSE WHO WILL BE TRAVELLING BY PLANE AND WANT TO TAKE A BRUNELLO WITH THEM TO CELEBRATE

Together with the 6 bottles of this wine, we will put into the case a wineskin, a sealed bubble wrap sachet that permits travelling with the bottles in your suitcase during flights, protecting them from damage and saving your clothes in case your suitcase is really badly treated.

FOR THE MEMBERS OF DONATELLA’S CLUB 6 BOTT. BRUNELLO 2015 RISERVA – WINE CELEBRATION BOX

Offer for Memebers 378,00 Euro (instead of 450,00 Euro)

For Club members who wish to double the order the deal is even better: 12 bottles of Brunello 2015 Riserva 736,00 Euro (instead of 900,00 Euro)

The price includes free shipping in Italy or 15 Euro discount for shippings abroad together with 1 wineskin

14 October 2021

By Donatella Cinelli Colombini

The most expensive Italian Wines

Barolo Monfortino, Amarone Quintarelli, Barbaresco Roagna, Brunello Case Basse, here is the list of the most expensive Italian wines from 1287$, downwards

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There are a fine number of rich consumers who buy wine just because it is very expensive. The price is a simple message, clear but with many symbolic components such as exclusivity, prestige, luxury … perhaps intrinsic quality.

THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITALIAN BOTTLES DETECTED BY WINE SEARCHER

Sometimes it is enough to determine the choice of bottle, especially when they are to be gifted.
Italian wine offers a huge range of prices, types and quality levels. The winning element is the relationship between the intrinsic quality and the sales tag, which is better than bottles from the rest of the world. Italy knows how to create millions of small wine masterpieces, within everyone’s reach and in recent years has been able to increase the international reputation of denominations and individual brands arousing the interest of collectors and investors: Brunello, Barolo, Amarone, Sassicaia, and Masseto …
From this new interest of the richest segment of the market towards Italy comes the WineSearcher ranking regarding the most expensive wines present in the huge portal that brings together the price lists of all the major retailers in the world. The list is published every year and shows us a rather stable situation highlighting how collectors are fond of some brands and continue to buy them.

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TOP 5 – THE MOST EXPENSIVE ITALIAN BOTTLES IN INTERNATIONAL WINE STORES

The first names on the list are:

Giacomo Conterno Monfortino, Barolo Riserva 1.287$
Giuseppe Quintarelli Amarone della Valpolicella Classico Selezione 1.265$
Roagna Crichet Paje, Barbaresco 918$
Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera Brunello di Montalcino Riserva 911$
Masseto Toscana IGT 910$
Then there are the wines from two wineries that you do not expect, perhaps because they are small, alternative, developed as great challenges: Barolo Cappellano Otin Fiorin Pie Franco-Michet, (740$) and Miani Refosco Colli Orientali del Friuli (709$).

5 October 2021

2021 grape harvest collage

Obsessive care in the choice of Sangiovese grapes: here is how the 2021 harvest is giving us small absolute excellences of Brunello apt for very long ageing

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For years, vinifying a “single vineyard” has been a happy memory. The search for quality in grapes has become so maniacal that the harvest has become a patchwork that brings together small quantities of clusters of the same variety but with similar or completely opposite characteristics to balance each other.

<<Take the grapes from this corner, put them together with those from the vines from the central area of the vineyard next door and then move three parcels further on to take the rest to be vinified in the same vat>>. Barbara Magnani, the senior oenologist of my cellars, has the map of the harvest plan in her mobile phone so as not to miss the complicated collage.

HARVEST 2021- THE PATCHWORK HARVEST

They are all Sangiovese grapes from our vineyards. The new thing, compared to the past, is that they come from different areas and even from different sides of the espalier. The harvest has become similar to a treasure hunt where you use your mouth to select the grapes and the scales to weigh them in order to fill the vat in a single day exactly with the most homogeneous grapes.

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In the end we realized that winemaking vats over 100 hl no longer serve us and we will have to sell them to fill the fermentation hall with many small containers with a capacities of 20, 30, 50 hl but not larger. Visually it will be like the “house of the seven dwarfs” with many pot-bellied dwarfs. Something very different from the beautiful fermentation rooms in the past, with containers all the same size.

The “collage harvest” is very slow and very accurate <<to pick the grapes in this way it takes twice as long>> grumbles the head of the vineyards Efisio Luche struggling with the lack of staff that characterizes 2021.

BRUNELLO 2021 HARVEST

<<So you tell me that from June to now there have been only two rainfalls for a total of 31 mm of water I believe it, but the vineyard does not seem to have suffered thirst, because it is very well>> said our oenologist consultant Valérie Lavigne arriving on September 21 in the vineyards at Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino and ordering us to suspend the harvest of the Brunello grapes for a week. According to her, the quality of the 2021 grapes is higher than that of previous years and this has given us enthusiasm once again.

In Montalcino we are generally the first to pick while this year we will be the last. A choice that depends on the distance of about 20 days between the budding of the first buds and that of the last caused by a cold spell. The frost at the beginning of April is the main reason for the only major problem with the 2021 harvest: the scarcity of grapes. The secondary reason is the dry climate that has led to small bunches and berries. In the end there are few bunches and they have little juice so the yield in wine is below average.

In the grapes there is a beautiful high acidity almost all tartaric and this will give us very vertical and structured wines to the delight of lovers of Brunello for long aging. In fact, when the ripening phase lengthens in a period with cold nights, as has happened this year, we have Brunello of extraordinary aromatic richness and able to defy time. During the harvest the daytime temperature was close to 29 ° C, while at night it fell by 15°C.

29 September 2021

Crazy climate in the vineyards

2021 will be remembered by winemakers for frosts, floods, fires and Covid. A series of disasters and the obvious need to commit to defending the earth

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The crazy climate is there for all to see: heat peaks even in Canada, immense fires and floods, frosts that run through Europe like tsunamis. If we fail to reduce the greenhouse effect and rebalance the climate, the earth will become a desert.

2021 VINTAGE WITH A CRAZY CLIMATE HITS ESPECIALLY THE FRENCH VINEYARDS

In the vineyards a first calculation of the damage is made.

The grapes are not yet all in the cellars and therefore anything can still happen but apparently the European wine region most affected by the meteorological excesses of this crazy 2021 is France.

The frost of 7-8 April also did damage to us in Italy, but in France it seems to have been of an impressive violence and, as in 2017, it hit most of the prestigious areas from Bordeaux to Burgundy, from the Rhone Valley to Champagne.

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FROSTS, FLOODS, HEAT AND MOULD: A VARIETY OF PROBLEMS IN FRENCH VINEYARDS

But there were also other problems because the heavy summer rains caused devastating floods and the high temperatures favoured the spread of mould forcing winemakers to fight every day to defend the grapes. The data of the Parisian Ministry look like a war bulletin: in Champagne half of the bunches have symptoms of late blight, in Alsace there have been attacks of both late blight and powdery mildew.

The “Service de la Statistique et de la Prospective” says that in Beaujolais, the Loire Valley, Charentes and the South-West there have been developments of “powdery mildew and sometimes black rot or botrytis depending on the Region”.

Provence, Languedoc and Roussillon, as in central-southern Italy, the vineyards have suffered from drought so the size of the bunches and berries is below average.

24 September 2021

OFFER: 6 BOTTLES OF BRUT ROSE’ SPARKLING WINE

This is a classic method sparkling wine produced in only 1433 bottles. An elegant bubble for the whole meal and particularly suitable for Tagliolini with truffles

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Absolute novelty that you will be among the first to taste. For the first time Donatella Cinelli Colombini uses her Sangiovese grapes to produce a very small series of a great sparkling wine.

It was made with the 2018 grapes from the Fattoria del Colle. It combines the typical freshness of Italian sparkling wines with the gustatory intensity of bubbles that have a long aging.

Donatella Cinelli Colombini worked three years to create this sparkling wine under the direction of Josef Reiterer from the famous South Tyrolean winery “Arunda”.

To produce the brut rosé that we are proposing, a small vineyard has been chosen with particularly suitable Sangiovese vines that have been harvested by hand.

A dark and cold room (12 ° C) was built in the cellar at Fattoria del Colle where only the traditional pupitres were put and the manual remuage of the bottles took place. Turning the bottles you can see small white marks that served to the winemakers for this daily and careful operation.

SPECILA PRICE FOR MEMBERS OF DONATELLA’S CLUB

6 bottles carton of Spumante Brut Rosè metodo classico (vintage 2018)

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Euro 257,00 (instead of Euro 301,00)

For those who wish to double buying 12 bottles, the price is even more convenient

Euro 495,00 (instead of Euro 602,00)

Free shipping in Italy or 15 Euro discount abroad.

16 September 2021