by Donatella Cinelli Colombini, #winedestination

My friend Angelo Gaja says that the foliage in the Tuscan vineyards has only one colour and is therefore less beautiful than that of the wine districts where there are many grape varieties and therefore many shades.

But that’s not true!

The human mind needs simple and harmonious images to feel good. Certain territories such as Val d’Orcia, a UNESCO heritage site since 2004 due to the beauty of its agricultural landscape, offer this type of scenery. Almost a balm for the soul.

The leaves of the vines begin to yellow immediately after the harvest and fall at the end of December. A short period in which the Tuscany of wine, where Sangiovese is the undisputed sovereign, is covered by a golden yellow brocade. The landscape of Brunello, Chianti Classico or Vino Nobile has remained intact for centuries. There are some large factories, a remnant of the industrialization dream of the mid-twentieth century, but they are very few, not like in Piedmont.

The landscape has an austere harmony made of history, nature and love of mankind. Woods, ploughed land for sowing, Sangiovese vineyards that become a golden cloak. Come and see it for yourself!

COME WALK AND RELAX IN FRONT OF THE FOLIAGE OF THE SANGIOVESE VINEYARDS

It is the most beautiful moment of the Tuscan countryside but the foliage does not last long.…

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by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Wine experts snub them by branding them as thirst quenchers without real quality but actually they exist all over the world. The French call them vins de soif that is wines for thirst, in English they take the name of poolwine which corresponds to the swimming pool wines proposed by the Lucanian sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello.

VINCENZO DONATIELLO AND POOLWINES

It was this thirty-year-old professional who proposed them for the first time in Italy in 2018. Vincenzo was the maître of the Piazza Duomo restaurant in Alba until February 2022, with the starred chef Enrico Crippa.He is therefore not a fanatic of “first price” bottles but he is also creative enough to understand that there is a difference between a gourmet lunch and a glass to drink without focusing on the appreciation of the organoleptic characteristics. Donatiello’s innovative vision is also expressed by the “Dictionary for waiters” of which he is the author, and in his articles in Intravino and in the wine section of the Lifestylie newspaper il Gattopardo.

POOL WINES NOT AS DRINKS BUT AS A DISCOVERY OF DIFFERENT, INTRIGUING AND NON-TROVIAL PLEASURES

From the same fertile mind, in 2018, the idea of ​​POOL WINES came out, that is, light, immediate, simple and obviously thirst-quenching.

How to recognize them?…

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