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A Mano Primitivo IGT Puglia - A little belter from Southern Italy !

A Mano Primitivo IGT Puglia
A lovely reddy purple colour to this wine, with good depth of colour.
Quite aromatic on the nose, with rich black fruits - blackberries, blackcurrant and blueberries. The fruit is smooth ripe and has good concentration. Puglia being in the south of Italy while still in the Old World it is certainly nice [...]

Farnese Pinot Grigio 2007 - A slightly fuller styled Grigio !

Farnese Pinot Grigio Terre Di Chieti 2007
Pinot Grigio is just massively popular world over ! Commercially styled wines that have very lean fruit flavours, high acidity and get chilled to the max have become the stable for alot of restaurant house whites. There has been a backlash against the boring Pinot Grigios by some sections [...]

Back to Abruzzo – the Good, the Bad and the Ugni

Posted by Mike
It is with some irony and much sadness that just a couple of weeks after my tribute to the wines of d’Abruzzo, the beautiful mountainous region of central Italy should be international headline news following a devastating earthquake near the medieval city of l’Aquila.

I had planned a follow-up to the (sometimes) magnificent Montepulciano, [...]