Week 15 of wine adventures in Piedmont It began a couple of weeks ago, with Dolcetto now in and bubbling away in the vats while the cool, grey, rainy weather of the past week has been shoved aside today by blue skies and brilliant sunshine. So the threat to the bulging, compact bunches of Barbera, their thin […]

The second video taken with David Berry Green at Fratelli Alessandria. In this one he interviews Signor Gian Battista in the Verduno vineyard, Monvigliero:

Week 12 of wine adventures in Piedmont I’m very pleased to announce that Berry Bros. and Rudd is now working with the Fratelli Alessandria family of Verduno (see the video below), so complementing Berrys’ Barolo portfolio of Luciano Sandrone, Cantina Mascarello Bartolo, Giovanni Rosso, Marcarini, Giuseppe Mascarello.

I was brought up on Rioja, holidaying on the Costa Blanca every year.  My father would spend hours in the local bodegas truffling through their seemingly inexhaustible range of old Reservas and Gran Reservas.  Bringing back wines from the ’40s to ’60s for what seemed only a few hundred pesetas and trying to educate me on […]