Hit 'em with the one-two... Having tried the Chianti DOCG new releases on Sunday, Monday it was the Gallo Nero's turn. Chianti Classico unveiled its Anteprima vintages at the old train station, now a congress center, Stazione Leopolda in Florence. Not hard to notice the old train station structure, a tad too minimalist for my…
Or at least that is the message the producers wanted to send on this Saint Valentine's Day, when surely an extra bottle or two was uncorked to celebrate! Because this week of Anteprime Toscane - the new wine releases in Tuscany - coincided with that most romantic of holidays, and everything was red passion. Held…
Stars are born, and stars are made. Lucky us, to have lived to see the meteoric passing of winemaker Giacomo Tachis who died last week at the age of 82 in San Casciano Val di Pesa outside Florence. Crazy thing is, I'd passed through San Casciano myself, just two days earlier. I never had the pleasure of…
Suzanne Branciforte's Italian Grapevine 