Archive for the 'Italy' Category

Barolo 2005 revisited

Monday, October 19th, 2009

In this month’s Decanter Tom Maresca tastes through the 2005 Barolos and concludes this is a fruit-forward vintage. The 2005 is classic in style

The Barolo Cure…

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Now that I am based in Hong Kong one of the major downsides of life in the Far East is that I miss many of the tasting trips, seeing our many and diverse selection of growers

Another Tuscan Dinner

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Our Tuscan dinner in June sold out in two days and was a great success. We absolutely love Manicomio, so it makes perfect sense to organise another dinner

A visit to Antinori

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Last week I was fortunate enough to tour several Antinori estates in Central Italy. Though we had previously visited Tignanello and Guado al Tasso, I was keen to see other properties

The delicious Barolo 2005s

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

This post should carry a health-warning: It is very very long. However, the delicious 2005 Barolos are deserving of every letter, space and punctuation mark. They showed fantastically well at our portfolio tasting