The wine region of Garda Colli Mantovani is located in the region of Lombardie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Cantina Reale or the Domaine Cantina Reale produce mainly wines pink, sparkling and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Garda Colli Mantovani are Merlot, Chardonnay and Cabernet-Sauvignon, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Garda Colli Mantovani often reveals types of flavors of non oak, microbio or oak and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
In the mouth of Garda Colli Mantovani is a powerful. We currently count 11 estates and châteaux in the of Garda Colli Mantovani, producing 23 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Garda Colli Mantovani go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese.
In 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. Meanwhile in the UK, Tony Blair led the Labour Party to its second landslide victory. A lot can change over the course of 20 years. According to many Rhône winemakers and wine collectors, this is how long a bottle of Hermitage should lay undisturbed until you open it. Is it really worth the wait? I recently tasted 11 Hermitage 2001s – seven red, two white, two sweet – to test the 20 year hypothesis and see how these ...
In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...
Vanilla was ranked as the most pleasant smell in a study involving 235 people and conducted by an international network of researchers, including those from the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. This was closely followed by ethyl butyrate, ‘which smells like peaches’, said the researchers, who published their findings in the Current Biology journal. Vanilla notes can be found in several wine styles, such as some iterations of Chardonnay or Rioja, largely resulting from ...
