Taste Like A Pro - Wine Quality, The Degree Of Excellence...
Reproduced from Year 3, Issue #13 of Spirito
Our readers noticed that we score wines on a 100
Domaine Ruet Morgon 2009 - Surprisingly Fresh For A Gamay!
Very impressive 5 year old Domaine Ruet
Wine Science by Ronald Jackson - Incredibly Invaluable Book
Thorough explanations of viticulture & winemaking principles and relations to the style & quality we can expect in wine influenced by those techniques. Jackson demystifies a whole series of concepts...
Read MoreA New Table: Winemaking, Causes & Effects On The Character Of A Wine...
Just for fun, I created a new Study Guide... This time a table quickly outlining the effects of winemaking techniques on the character of a wine... You can find it here: http://bit.ly/1BAofp (dropbox folder).
This is based on so many books I have studied over the past 4 years, I can not list them all here. I had it checked by a winemaker master of wine at my last residential seminar & it pretty much covers all.
Leonardo Mustilli, 1st To Bottle Monovarietal Falanghina
Leonardo Mustilli of the high quality Cantine Mustilli was the 1st to bottle a monovarietal Falanghina wine... His best is "Vigna Segreta"...
Falanghina is a very ancient grape that was probably brought by the greeks in the olden days. Some say its name come from the latin "phalanga", the word to describe wooden poles the greeks used for wine training. It almost came to extinction in Campania until Leonardo Mustilli decided in 1979 to seriously consider how to make fine wines out of the grape. Since, several producers have caught on and planted the grapes in various terroir around the region producing some very interesting and rewarding whites.