by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Today 55% of regular Italian wine consumers are women. The fairer sex is the majority among those who book visits to wineries …. but wine has a masculine connotation because, for 8,000 years it has been produced and drunk by men.
Daniele Cernilli- Doctor Wine with the cultured irony that distinguishes him starts from this point for a semi-serious but very intriguing reasoning << Grammar sometimes plays bad jokes. We are used to thinking of wine as something masculine, “the” Barolo, “the” Brunello, “the” Taurasi, but there are vines and wines declined in the feminine and who knows this might also coincide with their characteristics … >>

FEMALE VINES AND MALE WINES A GENDER INTRIC THAT MIGHT  REVEAL SOMETHING

The “gender” examination of the appellations, for me, starts from the decidedly female Doc Orcia because << the most beautiful wine in the world >> is born on hills with sinuous profiles. These are the sexiest and most similar views to a woman’s body that Tuscany and perhaps Italy possesses.

Instead Daniele Cernilli begins his examination on the sex of vines and wines from Barbera as Veronelli called it and as they call it in Langa, in Monferrato. It is a “smiling” wine like Bonarda.…

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