Let me tell you about a wedding among the barrels, aperitif in the historic cellar and a candle lite wedding banquet in the veranda among the vines. Do you like it?
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Wedding in the winery Tuscany Fattoria del Colle
A really special wedding, ideal for those who choose the Tuscan countryside because of its special touch in uniqueness and charm which comes from the wine’s magic.
The Fattoria del Colle winery has a large hall covered by brick vaulted ceiling, along the walls are situated the small barrels where the Orcia Doc Cenerentola wine ages. This is the location where to organize the ceremony with the altar and the chairs for the wedding couple covered in white satin. It is not a Church (by the way the estate has a delightful chapel that can welcome up to 40 guests) but the effect is all the same solemn , even though quite unusual.
Next to the barrel ageing area, where there are still visible traces of the original medieval walls, is where the aperitif is served. This is a suggestive area which gives the buffet a particular Tuscan imprint. In other words it is not an anonymous frame for the wedding of a couple who has chosen Tuscany to celebrate their love.
Wine Searcher the most visited wine website in the world with thousands of articles, 6 million offers, proposes the list of most costly Italian bottles
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The source is the most trustworthy, because Wine Searcher works with 38.000 distributors all over the world and has 10 million pages visited every month. So if it indicates an average sales price for a bottle that really is the average price around the world.
Lets see which are the wineries producing these bottles for millionaires.
First of all Ornellaia from the Tuscan winery bearing the same name Vendemmia d’Artista Special Edition Bolgheri Superiore.
This is a small selection of bottles in larger sizes creates by prestigious artists such as Rebecca Horn, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh. These are practically works of art which take on different shapes in the double Magnum, Imperial and Salmanazar forms – 3 – 6 and 9 litres. A very successful wine making mechanism especially in auctions and which Wine Searcher quotes at 975$ up to nearly 7,000 $.
School championships AIS Toscana, prepares tasters who win Italian and world championships practically every year, and it has a woman as director
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Her name is Simona Bizzarri and she was elected best Tuscan sommelier in 2008 and she manages this sort of taste gymnasium where the best talents train to become champions. A great devotion, lots of study. Lots of concentration but most of all lots of sacrifices because one must not smoke, and one most avoid those habits which damage the liver, and one must invest in buying important bottles from all over the world.
First producer of luxury wines in the world, first importer of beer in the world, this super colossus also produces Brunello a Montalcino
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Constellation Brands is a multinational company of enormous size and that continues to grow. Its sales volume during the first six months of 2013 published by “I numeri del vino” prove how at this point the profits created by beer have surpassed those created by wine: 220 million the former and 155 the latter before corporate costs and adjustments. Mind boggling figures which correspond to volumes which are increasing by more than 15%.
Wine had a turnover of 629 million dollars in 6 months and a market which is prevalently American even though Constellation sells in 100 nations around the world.
In their portfolio there are some real wine pearls bought when they were already famous and that have maintained their original brand: Robert Mondavi, Clos du Bois and Ruffino which appear on the first page of the list. Not bad considering that on page two there are excellencies such as SIMI and on the third Mouton Cadet Baron Philippe de Rothschild.
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In Italy the Constellation owns Ruffino since 2011 where they took over after the Folonari family who has been going through some complicated times. Ruffino is an historical brand with an International reputation: founded in 1877 with 600 hectares of Vineyard and 15 million bottles produced in splendid estates: especially great bottles of Chianti Classico but also of Brunello in the Greppone Mazzi estate.
In Italian story of lawyers, poison, appeals and judgements which subvert the previous ones regarding the most famous hill in Italy: Cannubi
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My grandfather Giovanni Colombini talked about it as if it were the mount of the gods, the Olympus of the Piedmont wines. Later I myself have been guest of my friend Anna Abbona from Marchesi di Barolo and I have seen for myself the beauty of the Cannubi hill covered in vineyards which in the autumn become a golden sea. From this romantic painting made up of a great landscape and great Barolo wines, we then descend to a situation full of court robes, duty-stamps and legal litigations. In other words from poetical to judicial.
What is considered the historical mother of Barolo, the Cannubi hill, is divided among 5 of the 166 “Menzioni geografiche aggiuntive” foreseen by the rules of production for Barolo DOCG approved in 2009: Next to Cannubi there are also Cannubi San Lorenzo, Cannubi Valletta, Cannubi Boschis, and Cannubi Muscatel.
