Sunday, April 15, 2012

The (re)evolution begins...

Lamoresca
San Michele di Ganzaria
Sicilia 

 Gaetano and his beloved rotozappa


 Frappato Nerocapitano at 450meters

 Hand labeling the rosso
 
 Blazing wood stove, late night on the mountain

La moresca (circa 200 years old)
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Montemelino
Tuoro sul Trasimeno
Umbria

 Lago di Trasimeno and some vines

 Cantina

 100 per cent new French oak barriques Botti grandi

 me too

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Paterna 
Terranuova Bracciolini
Toscana



 Late lunch with the bottling crew

 The hi-tech press

 Grapes, grain, nuts, vegetables, animals...not monoculture

Gallo (not) nero
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il Saliceto 
Campogalliano
Emilia-Romagna


 GP disgorging some pet-nat malbo gentile


 Lambrusco di Sorbara, as it should be
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Fondo Bozzole
Poggio Rusco 
Lombardia

 Franco & a frothy glass of ruberti; it's a lambrusco grape you've never heard of


 It's roughly half vines, half pears & apples, this is Lombardy after all


Award winning...
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Stay tuned for more

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