The wine region of Valli di Porto Pino is located in the region of Sardaigne of Italy. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Santadi or the Domaine Santadi produce mainly wines red, sweet and white. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Valli di Porto Pino are Chardonnay et Vermentino, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Valli di Porto Pino often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, tree fruit or spices.
In the mouth of Valli di Porto Pino is a powerful. We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of Valli di Porto Pino, producing 4 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Valli di Porto Pino go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or appetizers and snacks.
Some Cornas estates, like Domaine Clape, feel as ancient and unchanging as the granite hills themselves. Others, like Domaine Alain Voge, go through periods of flux. When this is due to vineyards being ripped out, bought or sold, then the whole profile of an estate can be altered. That’s not the case at Voge. Instead, it’s due to the coming and going of people and the unavoidable change that entails. I visited Lionel Fraisse, the current managing director at Domaine Alain Voge, to taste a select ...
In the last board meeting of 2021 for the regulatory council of DO Terra Alta, in Catalunya, Spain, a long list of changes was approved. The most prominent was the making of a very strict certification system for wines that are 100% Garnatxa Blanca given that it’s their flagship grape variety. But perhaps the most interesting item is a bit further down the list that allows certification for a type of wines that in Catalan are called “vins brisats”. The name refers to white wine ...
It’s no easy task to establish a super-premium wine in an entirely new region, particularly when inviting potential retail partners or distributors to the vineyard involves journeying to a distant corner of the Himalayas in the outer reaches of the Yunnan province, southwestern China. For my journey, after four flights from Bordeaux to Shanghai, Chengdu then Shangri-La, it was a four-hour drive up through stunning mountain passes to the foothills (here, that means 2,200m above sea level) of the ...
