The wine region du Colline Savonesi is located in the region in Ligurie in Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Punta Crena or the Domaine Punta Crena produce mainly wines red, white and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Colline Savonesi are Corvina et Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Colline Savonesi often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, spices or dried fruit and sometimes also flavors of oak, red fruit or non oak.
In the mouth of Colline Savonesi is a powerful. We currently count 15 estates and châteaux in the of Colline Savonesi, producing 32 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Colline Savonesi go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...
Following a recent modification of EU rules, member states are now allowed to employ resistant varieties in the production of wines with protected denominations of origin (PDO). The decision, published last week in the Official Journal of the European Union, is part of a wider revision of previous regulations that established common quality schemes, organisation of the market, definitions, descriptions, presentations, and labelling of European agricultural products and foodstuffs. Before the ann ...
Château Angélus’ announcement that it is withdrawing from the process to create the 2022 St-Emilion Classification has sent shockwaves through the region and raised questions about the ranking’s future form. With Châteaux Ausone and Cheval Blanc having announced their withdrawal last year, three of the top-ranking ‘Premier Grand Cru Classé A’ estates from the last edition of the St-Emilion Classification in 2012 will not be candidates for the revised ranking, due this ye ...
