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    sabato
    mag122012

    Perché Hollande non farà cassa con i Bordelais

    E’ vero il nostro nuovo presidente è conosciuto per essere un amatore di vino e dovrebbe in questo senso essere più vicino ai produttori francesi rispetto al presidente uscente, Sarkozy, astemio. E’ anche vero che la regione di Bordeaux è tradizionalmente propensa a votare a sinistra a parte i proprietari dei Chateau Classé Premier Cru (che rappresentano solo il 3% dell’elettorato però), proprietà di fondi d’investimento, stranieri miliardari (cinesi) e famiglie dell’alta borghesia. Sarà la passione per il vino ad avvicinare i produttori bordelais al socialista François Hollande? Non ne sarei cosi sicura. Fra Négociants, traders e Chateaux classé la risposta ad una politica annunciata di maggior indebitamento (alla “Mitterand”) sarà proprio quella di de-fiscalizzare gli utili.

    Di fatto, e dopo una gita di tre giorni in terra bordolese tra St Emilion, Pessac-Leognan, Barsac e Haut Medoc (Margaux, Pauillac e St Estèphe) ho notato in tutti Chateau Classé visitati che tutti senza eccezione stanno mettendo in atto diversi lavori fra cantina, nuove vigne e strutture d’accoglienza. Niente nero e denaro sporco, tutti investimenti tangibili (CAPEX) per ridurre l’imposta d’impresa. La manna arrivata direttamente dei nuovi paesi compratori (Cina) le sta sicuramente aiutando ma il merito rimane comunque quello dell’imprenditore e non del politico. Morale, chi pagherà l’aumento delle tasse per finanziare le larghezze del Sig. Hollande quelli che non possono investire (dipendenti e piccoli produttori) … che probabilmente l’avranno anche votato per evitare di far crescere l’estrema destra. Che brutto matrimonio quello del Sig. Vino e della Sign.ra Demagogia, vero?

     

    sabato
    mar172012

    How to choose my best Champagne vintage?

    ... just knowing and understanding how the wine-maker (chef de cave) has managed the vintage characteristics? I suggest you to have a look on the résumé below (which I'll complete step by step):

    *2010: closed to the vintage 2006. Easy drinking and juicy.

    *2009: Acidity is low.

    * 2007: complex year in which april was very hot early (25/30°), budding and flowering early too. Summer was rainy and september cold. A vintage drived by freshness and a rather high level of PH (around 3) permitting to say that it could be a well-ageing vintage when well managed during the harvest time.

    *2006: Fruit-driven, generous and over-ripened. Drinkable now. Not adapted to ageing in the cellar

    *2002: hot and dry vintage which has an over ripeness to grapes and fruit

    *2001: Rainy year that was very difficult to manage in the cellar and most of the time blended with other vintages in NV Champagne.

    *1997: Over-ripened year with a humid and rainy summer which has favoured the development of rot and botrytis. Outstanding wine-making has done the difference for this vintage.

    *1996: Energetic and windy year which has created high concentration. Actually a powerfull vintage, fruit-driven which demonstrate yet some weakness for its contained acidity and so its relative thin backbone on the ageing path.

    *1973: classical year with all seasonal and usual characteristics. Wines are sophisticated, elegant and intense but body is medium minus. Complexity was found with ageind when Champagne is well made.

    venerdì
    mar162012

    Hidden excellence: Italy's top white wines

    The foreign markets are usually strongly oriented towards Italian red wines. However, Italian white wines would seem to offer remarkable potential in terms of international market share development, especially in Northern European countries such as Norway, thanks to their general quality enhancement obtained through innovation in the vineyards and cellars.

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    giovedì
    mar082012

    ONAV Enna & ONAV Siracusa 14/04/12 - Corso di analisi sensoriale dello Champagne

    Dopo una presentazione storica della Champagne e dei suoi vini, il corso che verrà guidato da Tommaso Scavuzzo e la vostra champagnista preferita (almeno spero!) sopratutto per la parte Tasting propone un viaggio multi-sensoriale attraverso la Champagne e le sue quattro zone:

    - La montagna di Reims

    - La cote des Bar

    - La cote des Blancs

    - La valle della Marne

    Uno dei vini più difficile del mondo da capire verrà degustato e commentato nella sua diversità territoriale e complessa elaborazione.

    Una cena con abbinamento Champagne e specialità siciliana verrà poi proposta.

    Dopo questa giornata culturale ricca di emozioni, non vi sarà più permesso di dire Champagne è Champagne ma piuttosto qual è Champagne corrisponde di più al vostro gusto personale. Vi aspettiamo! 

    Per ulteriori informazioni contattare:  tommasoscavuzzo@hotmail.com

    domenica
    dic112011

    Art-house sparkling wines, Italian style

    It is no coincidence that the Italians have a passion for sparkling wines. Not only are they a major Champagne-drinking nation - as Champagne’s fifth-largest importer with 7.2 million bottles in 2010 - they are also leading producers of world-famous sparkling wines, spearheaded by Prosecco. The 2011 harvest produced 1.5 million hectolitres or 200 million bottles of Prosecco. So, no, Italy is not only home to red wines but also superlative whites, both still and sparkling.

    Art-house sparkling wines, Italian style

    lunedì
    dic052011

    Amarone, an inimitable vin de terroir

    GILBERT & GAILLARD WINTER 2011

    A few kilometres from the city of Verona, the home of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the winegrowing region of Valpolicella spreads over an area of 30,000 hectares and offers lovers of big, strapping reds the longlasting nectar that is Amarone. Of course, there are other, simpler red wines such as Bardolino and Valpolicella, but even when produced with the Ripasso technique, these are but a pale reflection of the majestic Amarone.  

     

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    venerdì
    ott212011

    Last Champagne grower tasting

    When the story change with descendants.

    Enclosure

    venerdì
    ott212011

    My last Dom Pérignon tastings

    Dom Pérignon matchings with the italian cuisine of the Michelin star Cracco.

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    martedì
    ott182011

    Not only Champagne - Madrid october 19th 2011

    I will be run my next wine tasting in Madrid with 14 fine Trentodoc labels. It's a great pleasure to comment this unique italian sparkling wine unknown in the international markets. Spain will be the first place and London the second one. Cheers! For more information: http://www.trentodoc.it/it/SC/2006/SID/38/Trentodoc_a_Madrid.html

    martedì
    ott112011

    Wine blogger loneliness

    Wine blogger loneliness yet defined as “ an unpleasant feeling in which a person experiences a strong sense of emptiness and solitude resulting from inadequate levels of social relationships” on Wikipedia, just makes me upset and surprised about the huge participation to the EWBC 4th edition in Brescia, Italy. Italians spend 420 minutes a month on Facebook compared with 465 minutes for Australians the first to use Facebook in the world (Nielsen, april 2011). 700 millions people use Facebook in the world versus 20 millions people in Italy where 80% of the internet users are present on the social networks. So I ask me: “Does it really work to create a wine blog to communicate?” Moreover in Italy 31% of the total time spent on line is dedicated to Facebook. Italian wine producers are not really keen on technology and about the all new technology tools. Consumers have became really wine lovers and try more and more to share some feelings and not really advices coming from wine gurus. So, what’s going on for the italian wine blogs? Most of the time I feel lonely and I call my clan through Facebook like E.T tried calling home years ago. Staying on my blog I feel lost in the middle of a range of new internet tools raising every day: connected TV, tablet, Smartphone, App, video and new TV, new social networks, and so on. Help, I need to be confirmed as a wine blogger and not as a lost missioner in Amazon, thanks!