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Umberto Cesari – Sangiovese Riserva 2008

December 31, 2011
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Emilia-Romagna is not a wine producing region in Italy that is well known for turning out wines of quality but one producer believed in the area and founded his vineyards there over 40 years ago. Emilia-Romagna is not that far from Tuscany, situated to the north east of the area on the other side of [...]

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2009 Bella Riva Sangiovese/Merlot

September 9, 2011
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Bella Riva is Italian for “beautiful riverbank” according to the winery website and seeing as the vines are situated overlooking the King River in the King Valley of the state of Victoria in Australia. Bella Riva is part of one of the big players in Australian wine, the De Bortoli winery. De Bortoli makes a [...]

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Goats Do Roam – The Goatfather, 2009

July 14, 2011
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Such is the success of the Goats Do Roam label in capturing the imagination of the humour-starved wine world that its brand name redirects to an actual ‘Wine humour‘ page on Wikipedia. The page isn’t that long, but good on Charles Back for getting his name on there. I remember Goats Do Roam from my [...]

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Deen De Bortoli Vats 10 & 12 Pinot Noir and Sangiovese at The Wapping Project

July 7, 2011
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Wapping Hydraulic Power Station was built in 1890, and if the builders had known it would one day play host to upturned Japanese wedding dresses suspended above moodily-lit tranquil pools of water in the name of art – or that young professionals on sightseeing stag dos would sip medium bodied red wines and have animated [...]

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Errazuriz Single Vineyard [Chilean] Sangiovese 2005

June 27, 2011
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One of the most interesting (in a good way) wines I’ve had in a long time, this Chilean Sangiovese (yeah, you read that right) was a delight to behold. My little brother Zef brought me this fine specimen from his local independent wine shop (and specialist off licence), The Bottle Bank, in Falmouth – the [...]

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Sangiovese

April 2, 2009
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Sangiovese is a red light-bodied Italian beauty whose name is translated from the Latin Sanguis Joivs meaning ‘the blood of Jove’, the Roman name for the god of Jupiter. History Traced to Tuscany since the 16th century, research suggests that Sangiovese derived from the ancient grape varieties of Calabrese Montenuovo and Ciliegiolo. The first documented [...]

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