The wine region of San Colombano al Lambro is located in the region of Lombardie of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Nettare dei Santi or the Domaine Banino produce mainly wines red, sparkling and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of San Colombano al Lambro are Merlot, Cabernet franc and Chardonnay, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of San Colombano al Lambro often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of red fruit.
In the mouth of San Colombano al Lambro is a powerful. We currently count 7 estates and châteaux in the of San Colombano al Lambro, producing 17 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of San Colombano al Lambro go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pork or game (deer, venison).
Last year, there was much mirth on wine Twitter about a particularly excruciating tasting note. You’re right. The wine trade needs to get out more. But still… this one was a beauty. It began well enough – really quite beautiful, in fact. But before long the imaginative descriptions were getting more ornate and strained. It moved from poetic to meaningless before finishing with a reference to Burnt Norton – the first of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets – that put it firmly in Private Eye magazine’s ...
Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...
Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...
