Archive for WINE TASTING
UMBRIA – TOSCANA (15) … FONTODI
The Azienda Agricola FONTODI was the last winery we visited during our press-trip in Umbria and Tuscany. This worldwide famed estate is much more than a simple winery. It is a complete farm on 130 hectares of land, including about 70 hectares of vineyards, olive trees, woods and pastures for the own cattle. The estate [...]
UMBRIA – TOSCANA (14) … PANZANELLO
The Azienda Agricola PANZANELLO is located in … Panzano in Chianti (Firenze). This is the heart of the Chianti Classico area, just halfway between Firenze and Siena. The smoothly waving landscape with gentle hills and wide valleys, the olive trees, the vines, the cypresses, the terra-cotta colored buildings, the fantastic sunlight, the blue sky… all [...]
SENSATIONAL PINOT NOIR FROM AUSTRIA
I´d like to share with you all some great news from Austria, thanks to Susanne Staggl, AWMB press department:
Austrian Pinot Noir showed their impressive top class status at an international blind tasting held in Singapore on August 4th. The tasting, which was organised by Michael Thurner, the former general manager of the Austrian Wine Marketing [...]
UMBRIA – TOSCANA (13) … MOLINO DI GRACE
Early in the morning, after a very comfortable night and a good breakfast at the cozy Albergo Agriturismo Azienda Agricola CASAFRASSI, the whole group left with luggage and all in two busses for a visit to one of the most ‘artistic’ wineries from Tuscany, Il Molino di Grace, close to Panzano, on the way [...]
UMBRIA – TOSCANA (12) … BIBBIANO
We left the Castellare di Castellina winery after the tasting in turbo tempo and rushed to the Albergo Agriturismo Azienda Agricola CASAFRASSI on the way to Siena. The check-in was really chaotic, but thanks to our great ‘chaperone’ Iolanda Maggio (Thompson), we were perfect on time and had the welcome opportunity to take refreshing shower [...]
