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OFFER: TWO ORGANIC 2022 FAMILY WINE PREVIEWS
Receive 2 bottles of Rosso di Montalcino 2022, 2 bottles of Chianti Superiore 2022 and 1 Magnum Rosso Montalcino 2022 at home for €112.00
NEWS ON THE EXCELLENT VINTAGE 2022
Few very good and healthy grapes due to the 2021 frost which extended its effects into the following year, and also
New monthly offer with Rosso di Montalcino 2022 e Chianti Superiore 2022
due to the seven months of drought which put the vines and the winemakers to the test, as they were forced to continuously hoe the earth. 2022 will be remembered as the year of drought and tannins and it was also a very hot year where budding occurred early, also leading to an early harvest compared to the normal calendar. The small caliber of the grapes and their thick skins have allowed the creation of very structured and long-lived wines. The very favorable relationship between the skin and the juice of the grape has produced an exceptional concentration of noble substances and above all of tannins in the wine. For this reason, the vinification was very delicate and the maceration in contact with the skins was prolonged.
THE 2022 VINTAGE OF ROSSO DI MONTALCINO FROM CASATO PRIME DONNE
The result is a powerful and sunny Rosso di Montalcino, like the heat of summer 2022, but also with a surprisingly fresh sip thanks to the perfect acid content of the grape.
ORGANIC SPUMANTE BRUT ROSÈ METODO CLASSICO 2020
EXCELLENT TUSCAN STYLE SPUMANTE DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY THE WHOLE MEAL. IT IS A METODO CLASSICO ROSÈ BRUT OBTAINED FROM ORGANIC GROWN SANGIOVESE GRAPES
Excellent Tuscan style Spumante designed to accompany the entire meal. It is a Metodo Classico brut rosé obtained from organically grown Sangiovese grapes
Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s sparkling wine is a small exclusive series of 1200 bottles designed for demanding wine lovers looking for something new. It aims high and plays on elegance and tastiness. <<It was created to accompany dishes based on white truffles from the Crete Senesi>> explains Donatella Cinelli Colombini, with the pride of someone who knows she has created a small masterpiece <<then we understood that it transforms every meal into a memorable moment because it unites the typical freshness of Italian sparkling wines to the gustatory intensity of the bubbles that have aged at length on the yeasts>>.
WINE TOURISM DOES NOT REGARD ONLY WINE
LANDSCAPES, SPORTS, MONUMENTS AND CITIES OF ART, TYPICAL GASTRONOMY AND OF COURSE WINERIES WITH THE HOPE OF PARTICIPATING IN EXPERIENCES DIFFERENT FROM ALL THOSE HAD BEFORE
Wine Tourism- Listening to the vineyards- Fattoria del Colle
We have always known that wine is not enough to generate wine tourism flows. We need a suggestive landscape, typical gastronomy and the presence of people with whom we can establish a relationship. More recently, with the exponential increase in tourist wineries (25,000), the most critical element is the proposal of experiences that are too similar to each other. In 96% of wineries, visitors visit the vat room and barrel room with an explanation of the production process followed by a tasting. It is only the size and importance of the latter that varies. This is why Roberta Garibaldi tells us that 66% of visitors think that the experiences in the cellar are all similar and there is a real risk that they will get bored.
But offering different experiences capable of teaching while having fun is possible, Donatella Cinelli Colombini shows us how.
TAILORED EXPERIENCES FOR EVERY TYPE OF WINE TOURIST
Identity, authenticity and diversity are the three key words. Donatella Cinelli Colombini invites you to her wineries at Casato Prime Donne in Montalcino and Fattoria del Colle in the Orcia DOC region to participate in unique and memorable experiences designed for different visitor targets.
SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA THE INLAYS THAT CHARMED FEDERICO ZERI
FEDERICO ZERI, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING EXPERTS, STUDIED HISTORY OF ART IN THE COLLEGIATA OF SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA IN FRONT OF A MASTERPIECE THAT IS STILL THERE
Antonio Barili San Quirico d’Orcia choir inlays in the Collegiata
by Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination
As you know, I produce wine but I did not study oenology but rather the history of medieval art. I consider it a privilege to have dedicated years to the study of paintings, sculptures and minor arts but I also feel the privilege of living in Tuscany, a region that resembles an immense widespread museum, full of great works of art.
FEDERICO ZERI IN SAN QUIRICO D’ORCIA
Here I’ll tell you about one of them: the inlays by Antonio Barili in San Quirico d’Orcia, 30 km from Fattoria del Colle. During the last Orcia Wine Festival I met Marco Torchi who told me about Federico Zeri, one of the greatest Italian art historians and critics, who decided his destiny while he was in San Quirico d’Orcia.
OFFER: COMPARE THE TWO VERSIONS OF BRUNELLO 2019
Receive this proposal at home that includes 3 bottles of Brunello 2019 and 3 bottles of Brunello Prime Donne 2019 for €279.00
NEWS ON THE 2019 VINTAGE
This harvest has two surprising characteristics: on the day of harvest the vines were still in vegetation, an unusual circumstance that also occurred in 2010. As in that magical year, the grapes fro Brunello 2019 were excellent and abundant. An increasingly frequent characteristic with the new climate in which the vines find balance with a higher number of bunches than in the past, but we maintain a production per hectare of 60 quintals.
The 2019 Organic Brunello di Montalcino from Casato Prime Donne celebrates the effects of the new climate which has especially rewarded the cooler areas of Brunello. The northern area of the Montalcino hill, where Casato Prime Donne is located, has always been considered the humid and less sunny side. A circumstance that was once a misfortune and is now however a fortune because, together with the richness of clay that makes the soil cold, it allows a gradual maturation of the grapes even in the current hot summers.
Brunello di Montalcino 2019 e Brunello di Montalcino Prime Donne 2019
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BRUNELLO AND BRUNELLO PRIME DONNE
Brunello and Brunello Prime Donne are born in the first Italian winery with an entirely female workforce. Brunello Prime Donne, however, is the first long-aging red created for female consumers. Every year 4 super experts taste all of Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s Brunello and choose the barrels or tonneaux in which to mature it as well as the final blend. They are the Masters of Wine, Rosemary George and Madeleine Stenwreth, the wine shop owner Astrid Schwarz and the Sommelier Daniela Scrobogna. Therefore, based on their decisions, Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s winemakers create Brunello Prime Donne which is generally the most structured and is produced only in the best harvests.
THE RATINGS OF THE TWO VERSIONS SPEAK CLEAR
RED WINE SERVED COOL: WHERE WHEN & WHY
CLIMATE CHANGE, HEALTHIER MEALS AND THE DESIRE FOR NOOVELTIES ARE INCREASING THE CONSUMPTION OF RED WINE SERVED COOL AND SEEING IT IN THE FRIDGE IS NO LONGER SURPRISING
By Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination
Red Wine served cool with strawberries
Winters so warm that you can have lunch outside, very hot and then very cold spring days… a truly crazy climate that also brings changes to menus and wines. The consumption of white wine increases and the serving temperature of red wine decreases.
If once it was said to bring bottles of red to the table at “room temperature”, now the specification of 16-18°C is written everywhere. Refrigerated cabinets for red wines are in every good restaurant and there are many more red wines to drink cool.
WHICH RED WINES ARE THE MOST SUITABLE TO BE CONSUMED COOL?
It is an effect of the new climate and the new attention to well-being deriving from food: more vegetables, less meat, more lightness, less cooking. Uncorking a cool red wine becomes trendy but which wines are suitable for reaching the table at 8-12° centigrade?
IAN D’AGATA AND DONATELLA CINELLI COLOMBINI’S BRUNELLO 2019
IAN D’AGATA’S TASTINGS OF BRUNELLO 2019 AND RISERVA 2018 AWARDS DONATELLA’S WINES WITH 93, 94 AND 93/100 AND OFFERS AN OVERVIEW OF MONTALCINO
Ian D’Agata is Italian by origin but grew up in Canada where his parents made him attend French language schools so Ian has three native languages. Gymnastics that then served him when he became a doctor and chose paediatrics and research, arriving at the most selective university in the world, Harvard Medical School. In short, he was a young genius of scientific research until he fell in love with wine and in this field too, he gave a masterful touch, directing his interest towards terroirs and native vines. His contribution concerns events and tastings but also highly successful books such as “The Ecco Guide to the Best Wines of Italy” and the monumental “Native Wine Grapes of Italy”. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the wines of Italy, Alsace, Bordeaux and Canada.
One wonders how he knows so many things and the answer is: he has a great memory and never sleeps. He is always moving from one nation to another and from one topic to another. When I prepared the Vinitaly tastings for the Donne del Vino with him, he responded to me at any time of day or night, always with funny and self-deprecating jokes. Obviously, the experience of medical research has left its mark on him: he doesn’t want generic data <<to say that a soil is made up of sand and clay is not enough without the percentages>> but then he knows how to sum up like few others, he decides and reaches the goal with a smile on his face, as if everything had been easy.
SUPERTUSCAN WINES AND MONICA LARNER’S TUSCAN DISCOVERIES
THE EDITOR OF WINE ADVOCATE – ROBERT PARKER PRESENTS US 110 IGT WINES AND MINOR TUSCAN DENOMINATIONS INCLUDING OUR CENERENTOLA AND IL DRAGO E LE 8 COLOMBE
By Donatella Cinelli Colombini #winedestination
Monica Larner editor of Wine Advocate – Robert Parker amazes us once again with the report of 110 wines including Supertuscans and wines from small Tuscan denominations. In her presentation article she specifies that she has included the “usual suspects” i.e. Tignanello, Solaia, Saffredi, Galatrona and Redigaffi and <<some fun discoveries made on the Tuscan wine route relating to smaller or little-known names>>.
MONICA LARNER AND THE BORDEAUX STYLE SUPERTUSCANS
In her explanation of the “super Tuscan” category there is another surprise. Monica Larner clarifies that the highest quality type of Tuscan IGT is linked to a specific period in the modern history of Italian wine, dating back to a period between 10 and 30 years ago << which was heavily influenced by Bordeaux. This catch-all category has always frustrated me because it goes against everything achieved to underline territorial identity, authenticity and varietal typicity in wine>>