The wine region of Val Polcévera is located in the region of Ligurie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Andrea Bruzzone or the Domaine Andrea Bruzzone produce mainly wines white, red and sparkling. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Val Polcévera are Vermentino et Ciliegiolo, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. In the mouth of Val Polcévera is a powerful.
We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of Val Polcévera, producing 7 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Val Polcévera go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
Since February 24th 2022 the world has quickly learned a great deal more about Europe’s second-largest country, Ukraine. Most notably will be our profound admiration for the Ukrainians’ continued resistance to the invading Russian Army. This is but one item on a long list that includes such things as Ukraine being one of the world’s top exporters of wheat, barley and sunflower seeds. However, many people are also now learning that Ukraine not only has a thriving winemaking sect ...
Artelium clinched the Newcomer of the Year award, and then went on to win trophies for the best Blanc de Blancs and the Top Sparkling Wine of 2022. It was finally crowned Supreme Champion at the WineGB Awards for its Blanc de Blancs 2015. Mark Collins and Julie Bretland, a husband-and-wife team, launched Artelium after quitting their jobs to follow their passion for wine. They started out by purchasing grapes from growers, but they now have 85,000 vines spread across an 18ha estate in Sussex. Ar ...
I’d like to say we took advantage of the lockdown and its related commotion to do a stock-take, explore new avenues, turn over intriguing stones, widen and deepen our drinking, taking careful notes as we went. Sadly, no. I won’t say we got stuck in a rut, but we did tend to stick with comfort wines – and “comfort”, in our case, means familiar. Regular readers of this quarterly column can probably guess the labels on the resulting empties. We have a wider range of comfort foods, I’m afraid, than ...
