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Wonderful white wines at Aigner winery #wine #aigner #krems #austria

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Sauvignon Blanc 2014 is produced by the well-known Weingut Aigner wine estate, placed in the Austrian city Krems. Today Wolfgang Aigner manages the company, whose tradition and values have been passed on nine generations, since the beginning of the 18th century. The company produces around 60,000 bottles of wine every year.

The winery also offers a guesthouse opened in 1999, where you can use leisure facilities, take part to winery tours, wine tastings and even watch or participate in the grape harvest.

Sauvignon Blanc 2014 is a really high quality white wine, made by the typical Aigner style. Aigner wines are strong in aroma, but also fresh and fruity, as Sauvignon Blanc. A crispy, zesty, medium-bodied white wine.

We really have appreciated its exceptional charming characteristic, flower aroma, and herbaceous tones. Its savory taste is made of medium acidity, very profound at the same time, with a great aftertaste.

Due to the wine herbal fragrances, it is ideal to join with similar green herbs, as parsley, rosemary, basil, coriander or mint. Perfect food pairings are white meats, seafood, cheese and vegetables too.

Riesling Kremstal DAC Weinzierlberg 2014 trocken is a fantastic white riesling with lemon notes, long, persistent with body and elegance. The way how this winemaker goes at work for this riesling is fantastic. You’ll be experiencing an exceptional moment while tasting this riesling.

Weingut Aigner website: http://aigner-wein.at/index.php/en/

Valentina Gagliano

Musico Montalcino winery #tuscany #wine #montalcino #italy

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Martini family is one of the most renowned and oldest family in Montalcino city, in Tuscany. Love and passion for winery and wine production have been passed down from one generation to another.

Most of the family members were farmer and they worked in their vineyards and in Maremma region too. One of the most esteemed farmer was Renato Martini, whose abilities and manual skills were really appreciated by land owners.

In 1980, the business man Giovanni Martini, deeply interested in viniculture decided to buy some vineyards, becoming a major producer of wine. His son, Guido Martini, inherited the enterprise from the father and he tried to keep family tradition in his production.

The annual production it’s around 5,000 bottles of Brunello, 3,000 of  Rosso di Montalcino and 2,000 of IGT. In addiction the winery also produces 1,000 bottles of olive oil and the Brunello Grappa.

The wines produced are of excellent quality, labels of bottles are made of a personalized design, very attractive for buyers. Wines are mainly created thanks to fermentation of Sangiovese grape, the most widely planted grape variety in Italy.

We have been charmed by the Brunello di Montalcino which is a very balanced wine, not too strong, with a fantastic expression of the san giovese. A wine, first of all very elegant with silk tannins, a perfect acidity and a lovely aftertaste.

Musico Montalcino winery website: http://musico.pro/en

Valentina Gagliano

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The Paraguayan secret: The best Latin American winery #wine #cellar #Latinamerica

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In City of the East, the second largest city of Paraguay, in the subsoil of tmonalisa-rebajadohe shopping mall called Monalisa, it is found the best winery of all Latin America.

Accross the commercialisation of all different kind of products in this shopping center, stairs on the ground floor of the building offer space to an extensive winery of around one thousand square meters.

Inside of it there could be found around 200,000 bottles of the bests wines from all over the world, where the majority of them come from France (especially from Bordeaux) but also from Spain, Portugal and Chile.

The majority of the customers come from Brasil or Argentina and that is the reason why Argentine wines are not sold because they want to offer special products that cannot be found in the Latin American countries.

The winery operates for fifteen years and it is characterized because of its fabolous temperature, being between 14 and 17 degrees with almost 70% humidity. Moreover, it does not deliver products to make customers going there to enjoy both city and the best winery of the entire “Mercosur”.

Customers could also find wines valued on 3,000 dollars that are not consumed but they are kept for exposition and saved as a true relic.

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz.

 

 

The largest wine collection takes place in Moldova #wine #cellar #Moldova

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milestii_mici-3Its name is Milestii Mici and it is the biggest cellar of  the world which  has around 2 million of wine bottles highly appreciated. Also known as “The Golden Collection”, 70% of the production is red wine.

Milestii Mici, is a town dedicated to wine production and it is located 20 km far from Chisinau, capital of Moldova.

The winery has complex underground galleries that are spread over a total of 250 km of which about 50 km are used.

In August 2005, Milestii Mici won the Guiness Records award as the largest wine collection in the world. Its wines are exported to several countries as Sweden, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece, Germany, Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, United States and Japan.

For visitors, there is the opportunity of booking a tour on which you will be able to choose the date, time and language and after that, there is the chance of select and taste different “Milestii Mici wines”.

Patricia Fernández Ruiz

Wines from the East: Romania #wine #east #Romania

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Romania has a great wine tradition couvered by the excellent wines that it produces, some of which have won several international awards.

Some of the most famous and local variety are the called Grassa Cotnari, Feteasca alba or Feteasca regala. These are the variety of white golden yellow grape from which the best Romanian wines are elaborated.

Besides having their own types of grapes, the good Romanian climate and its geographical position have also allowed the perfect acclimatization of foreign varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Sauvignon blanc, etc. Thanks to that, high quality wines are produced in the country.

Cotnari vineyards are the most famous in the country and here are produced the marketed brands Tamáioasa, Fráncusa, Feteasca Alba. Some other famous Romanian wine brands that should be taken into account are Aligote,  Riesling, Feteasca Neagra (red wine) or Mutfarlar.

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz

Felix Callejo, a winery in the heart of Spain #wine #Spain #winery

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floresdecallejo01Felix Callejo was born in Sotillo de la Ribera, Spain, in a family with a long tradition in the world of wine. He had always dreamed on elaborating his own wine and in 1989 he achieved his goal with success.

Since 1999 he takes care of the technical management of the winery, the vineyard and the winemaking process.

The vineyard, that is exclusively Tempranillo is situated in Sotillo de la Ribera, in the province of Burgos. The high altitude is the responsibñe for large temperature contrasts which improve the maturity of the grapes. Moreover, the variety of soils that are found in the vineyard gives their wines a wealth of nuances.

The main feature in their winemaking process is based on the use of indigenous yeasts and once the fermentation is finished, wines gain complexity in exclusively French oak barrels.

Flores de Callejo 2013, one of their most famous wine, is a red wine very aromatic with marked notes of berries. It is 100% Tempranillo and it is kept 6 months in barrel.

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz.

Fattoria San Francesco’s Wines win five gold medals #wine #Italy

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On March 2015, the 54th National Competition of Wines DOCG-DOC-IGT organized by Mostra Nazzionale Vini-Pramaggiore took place in Pramaggiore (Venezia) as it does every year.

The wine competition where each comittee is made up to five oenologists who are selected by the Italian Association of Oenologists, awarded this year with five gold medals to Fattoria San francesco’s wines.

The primary condition to obtain a gold medal in this competition consists on the achievement of a minimun score of 80/100 points, and this year, San Francesco’s wines met this goal with the following wines mentioned:

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-Cirò D.O.C. Rosso Classico “San Francesco” 2013

-Cirò D.O.C. Rosato “San Francesco” 2014

-Cirò D.O.C. Bianco “San Francesco” 2014

-Calabria I.G.T. Bianco “Settemari” 2014

-Calabria I.G.T. Rosato “Donna Rosa” 2014

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz.

WIM Association welcomes two new members #wine #campaign #moderation

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The Dutch Association of Wine Merchants (KVNW) joins WIM Association as effective member and is nominated as the WIM national coordinator in the Netherlands. At the same meeting, the French Federation of Aperitif Wines (FFVA) has also joined the WIM Association as Observer Member.

Both Associations have presented their respective Wine in Moderation to encourage moderation and responsibility and contribute in the reduction of alcohol-related harm.

Responsible for the coordination, accountability and growth of the Wine in ModerationProgramme, WIM Association now counts 15 Effective members and 3 Observers members. Structured Wine in Moderation Programmes are implemented by the national WIM coordinators in 9 countries around Europe and S. America, and actions are developed in more than 20 countries worldwide with the support of the WIM Ambassador Companies, European Associations and other Partners.

Already very much involved in the fight against alcohol-related harm through their participation in several initiatives, KVNW becomes the national coordinator of the WIM programme in The Netherlands and will be responsible for the planning, coordination, implementation and accountability of WIM in its country.

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While Vin et Société acts as National Coordinator in France, FFVA will be supporting and further taking action to encourage moderation and responsibility in France. With members such as Grandes Marques de Porto already well-experienced with the WIM programme, FFVA is looking to further spread the message of moderation and responsibility.

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz.

 

Tasting Bancal del Bosc 2013 red. #Spain #wine #catalunya

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Bancal del Bosc 2013, a red wine with denomination of origin in Montsant, is a wine elaborated by the winery Vinyes Dòmenech (Tarragona, Spain).

The Spanish cellar, owner since 2002 of one of the oldest vineyards of Tarragona produces red and white wines of high quality.

The wine, mostly made of grenache grape (60%) has been six months in barrels of French and American oak. It is characterized by  a black fruit aroma and about its taste it has a greedy and fruity entrance that presents a certain roughness with a sweet and elegant tannin.

 

 

Decanter World Wine Awards #wine #awards #Bordeaux

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Last Sunday, on 14th June, the results of the Decanter World Wine Awards 2015, that is the world’s largest and most influential wine competition were published.

A list of 15,929 wines had been judged by the top wine experts from around the globe, where there were 35 international trophies, that it is the highest accolade a wine can achieve at the DWWA.

Among them there were 19 white wines, 14 red wines and 2 pink wines and at the same time eight of them come from France, six from Australia, five from South Africa and four from Spain.

Moreover, the international trophy for Red Bordeaux varietals was given to the Spanish Miguel Torres, for its Reserva Real 2010 (Penedes, Catalonia). This wine, created in the 1990s is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Merlot grapes and it is a further example of Spain’s growing reputation for quality.

 

Patricia Fernández Ruiz.

 

 

 

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