Wine Reviews

The Bellavista winery was founded in 1976, when Vittorio Moretti decided to turn a small family farm into a first class wine making concern.  He was helped by the award-winning Italian winemaker, Mattia Vezzola.  Vezzola treats the wines in a controlled, elegant manner, giving them a personality and style which are easily recognizable, even in his...
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Provence is located in southeastern France, bordering Italy, and is the birthplace of the most prestigious rosé wines in the world.  Domaine Ott is certainly the best representative of these.  Chateau de Selle, Le Clos Mireille and later, Chateau Romassan are at the foundations of this wine empire. Acquired in 1912, and located in the highlands...
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Chivite is one of the most iconic old bodegas in Spain, with eleven successive generations of winemaking tradition to its name.  A notarial deed dated August 1647 shows that the family already possessed its own winery and vineyards at that time.   Today the company has two wineries, independent of each other.  One is its traditional bodega in...
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Can Rafols dels Caus is the name of the estate in Avinyonet del Penedès belonging to Carlos Esteva.  Set in a farmhouse dating from 1630, it is one of the most distinctive, bold and individualistic bodegas in Spain, like the personality of its owner, Carlos Esteva.  He was one of the first wine producers in Spain to use the trellis system in the...
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Gorka Izaguierre is a winery founded in 1994 in the Bizkaia D.O.  Today, it is the finest example of modern Txacolis from the area. It owns 31 hectares of vines planted on trellises on clay soils with some marl.  Here they grow the Basque grape varieties of Hondarrabi Zuri and Hondarrabia Zerratia, over 14 estates with slopes as steep as 30...
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Leonard and Olivier Humbrecht represent the pinnacle of winemaking in Alsace. Domaine Zind-Humbrecht was founded by the union of two wine producing families in 1959. The Humbrechts have upheld their winemaking tradition from father to son since 1620.  In the 18th century, they rented vineyards near Gueberschwihr, which they have since acquired....
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D’Arenberg is one of Australia’s oldest and most well known wineries. It was founded in 1912 by Joseph Osborn, when he bought the “Milton Vineyards”, already well-established in the region to the north of the Gloucester and Bellevue townships, now known as McLaren Vale (South Australia). The Osborn family has been growing its own grapes since...
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Bodegas Bilbaínas is part of Spanish wine history and an institution from the 'la estación’ neighbourhood of Haro. Founded in 1859 by a French wine company, it passed into the hands of a group of friends "from Bilbao" in 1901, hence its name today. It is considered one of the area’s most classical wineries, producing well known brands such as...
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Franciacorta is in the heart of Lombardy, and stretches between Brescia and Lake Iseo. It lends it name to a wine, a production method (the traditional or classic) and the area where the highest quality sparkling wines in Italy are made. The Ca' del Bosco winery’s name comes from the house surrounded by woods in Franciacorta, where Annamaria...
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