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With the top end of the US market a Holy Grail for wine producers, Wine Spectator magazine’s annual Top 100 sent eyebrows flying off the Richter scale last year. Not only did the first place go to an Italian wine, but it was not a super Tuscan nor was it produced by a winery anyone had heard of. It was the Brunello di Montalcino Tenuta Nuova 2001, a 100% Sangiovese from Casanova di Neri, a relatively new producer. The SA equivalent would be Robert Parker scoring a Diemersfontein Pinotage 100 points as both varietals are regarded as hopelessly rustic by wine snobs. Read More…
If Stellenbosch is the heart of SA wine, then Tuscany performs the same function for Italy. As is the case in SA, there is a low intensity struggle between traditionalists happy to make rustic reds from Sangiovese and new wave winemakers producing Cabernet Sauvignon dominated Supertuscans, primarily for the US market. Wines like Solaia made by the Marchese Piero Antinori, an 80:20 blend of Cabernetg and Sangiovese from a single sunny vineyard in his Tignanello property whose eponymous wine has the percentages reversed. Read More…
