Category: Italian Wine

Cantina Mascarello Bartolo 2012 Harvest – Interview with Maria Teresa Mascarello

Kicking off five days of 2012 Nebbiolo harvest reports this week, here I interview Maria Teresa Mascarello of Barolo producer Cantina Mascarello Bartolo in her Cannubi vineyard. Maria Teresa’s satisfied with the quality of her Nebbiolo fruit, especially when one considers what the vine has had to put up with this year:  a late, shock minus […]

Berrys’ 2012 Italian Tasting

On Thursday 6th September, Berrys hosted the second ever Italian walkaround tasting in Lindley Hall, St James. Even in its infancy, this annual wine tasting is increasingly recognised as showing an excellent selection of Italian wines and, as such, was extremely well attended by customers and journalists alike. For this growing, important wine-producing country, this […]

Report on our Grand Tour Tasting

On Thursday 6th September we held our third annual Italian Grand Tour Tasting in Lindley Hall in Pimlico. The event was a great success and gave 435 of our customers a chance to taste the new releases and talk to the producers from Piedmont, Tuscany and almost every corner of this increasingly important wine producing […]

Fresh off the blocks: Italy’s 2012 harvest hits its stride…

It’s amazing what can happen when you visit London! Earlier this month forty-four of Berrys’ Italian suppliers came to the notoriously damp Olympic city (to present their wine for our 2012 Grand Tour offer) only to discover that London was bathing under its first week of summer sun, while rain was finally pouring at home! […]