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A very striking figure clad fully in black arrived yesterday afternoon at our offices bearing 2 bottles of red wine. The glasses were familiar big round and black, although they could have been red, but the clothes looked strangely un-Italian....
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Giugi Sesti is quite simply our favourite Brunello producer. Charming and idiosyncratic, he is a true renaissance man who knows as much about art and astronomy as about wine. He oversees his Brunello estate from his hilltop winery and in...
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Love him or hate him, there is no doubting Robert Parker’s influence and experience. His Wine of the Day today is Cavallotto Fratelli’s Dolcetto d’Alba Vigna Scot 2005.
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An hour and a half south past Siena is Montalcino country and we dined and tasted with the Sesti’s, who are famously hospitable.
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We then had a very long drive south to Carmignano to see the charming and very tall Beppe Rigoli at Fattoria Ambra to taste his Carmignano Riservas, a DOC which was the first to include Cabernet with the Sangiovese. The...