Bardolino, the small wine region around the place of the same name on Lake Garda, was once famous for his rose wine - the Chiaretto. He became a victim of mass tourism on his banks. For a few years and undeterred by the dreary reputation of the area Daniele Delaini from Villa Calicantus, he has ...
The somewhat scary name of the wine should not prevent anyone from trying out the white base of the Tenuta Saiano. We guarantee that the vinified remnants of the winery are far above many other less honestly titled entry wines - which is mainly due to the fact that the Maggioli vineyards are gen...
Like few other Italian grape varieties, Lagrein is suitable for rosati that not only want to convey freshness but also depth. The reason for this is the thick, dark, extract-rich skins, which release colour, aromas and tannins even on brief contact with the juice.
Martin Gojer's Lagrein vines a...
Villa Calicantus: Soracuna La Rocca Bardolino Classico 2022
Rotwein
€17,90
The Soracuna is a classic Bardolino in the best sense of the word. His grapes come mostly from over 50 years old pergolas, the roots of which have dug deeply into the moraine underground. The grape varieties are the usual suspects of the region: Corvina, their fruit aromas and fine tannins provi...
The Romagna is Sangiovese Country. Some suspect - and not in Tuscany - the origin of the large Central Italian grape variety. In the Valmarecchia, the home of the Tenuta Saiano, it has been planted in a floor for centuries, the mixture of which gives tension and structure on the way.
The grapes...
In addition to pasture areas, olive trees, wheat fields, forests, vegetable gardens, a restaurant and a guest house, there is also a vineyard with Greccheto Gentile alias Pignoletto on the 100 hectare land of the Tenuta Saiano.
From the variety that is often vinified to completely irrelevant wi...
Data sheet
Grape variety: Nebbiolo
Plant protection: only sulphur, copper and plant or animal-based preparations, not certified
Vineyard: single vineyard site Cavazucchi. Soil with a high iron and manganese content, covered by a layer of marine sand
Harvest: by hand
Fermentation: spontaneous |...
The Camaleonte (Chameleon) is - as the name suggests - a somewhat unusual rosé. In contrast to the usual practice, it is not a red variety that is briefly macerated, pressed and vinified, but rather wines that are already finished are cuvetised and blended into one big whole.
Fabio Ferracane use...
Jura meets Marsala. The Muffato is - as sometimes happens with the production of special wines - a child of chance. Its mother was a barrel of Catarratto that was filled in 2013, but was then forgotten. Over the years, a little wine always evaporated in it, over which - increasingly exposed to th...
The Bardolino is located on the southeastern bank of Lake Garda. In the hierarchy of Italian wine regions, it is more at the bottom. That was not always so. There were times when the wines of the area were not inferior to those of Valpolicella. But then at some point, towards the end of the last...
The lasupperiora beats a bridge between the delicacy and subtle fruit aromatic of the Soracuna - the entry -level wine of the Villa Calicantus - and the substance and profoundness of the Avresir, the red flagship of the winery. His vines planted in 2010 roots in stony-lime-led terrain in the hig...
"As long as they pour water on Via Emilia - the street that leads from Milan to Rimini - you are in Emilia, but as soon as they give you wine, you are in Romagna (Antonio Baldini)." And not Some wine, but Sangiovese, the Red Queen among the Italian grape varieties, about the origin of which is t...