WINE HARVEST AND VINTAGE QUALITY 2019
From the sources’ mouths With the 2019 Northern Hemisphere harvest in the books (or barrels), we asked some of our wineries to gauge the vintage. With wine harvest and vintage quality, every season brings a different design of roller coaster: some are gentle and steady while others go drastically up and down. Some go nice […]
ISOLE E OLENA — PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
We all have it. But what do we learn from it? The first time I met Paolo de Marchi, owner of Isole e Olena in Tuscany, I was an insignificant young wine seller working the floor in a shop in south Calgary. I’d recently tasted his Chianti Classico and had been astounded by its elegance […]
THE 2019 VINTAGE ON THE BRACKETS OF IBERIA
The grapes are in and converted and the wines are now resting in their vessels over the winter. Spring is coming. Cellar temperatures will start to uptick and dormant fermentations may begin again, at least in the traditional places. Our wineries Mas Martinet and Niepoort sent us their takes on the 2019 vintage on the brackets of Iberia in […]