Sales Start Brunello | 2017 Annata & 2016 Riserva

    At the end of February, Monica Larner published for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate her first ratings of the Brunello di Montalcino 2017 and Riserva 2016 that came on the market this year. She rightly asks in her article and also immediately gives the answer: "And what is the soul of Brunello? The ideal is elegance. Few wine regions in the world have the potential to produce wines with such depth and finesse. At its best, Brunello moves close to Barolo and Burgundy, two of the most successful wine regions today, thanks to their ability to capture the hearts and minds of savvy young consumers who seek emotion and experience with every glass."

    Antonio Galloni (Vinous.com) and James Suckling have also already evaluated the new vintages - and they are not alone in finding the 2016 Riserva vintage to be a true benchmark after the already excellent 2015 vintage. Many of the new wines have, of course, provided with all current ratings, already found their way into our air-conditioned warehouse and store. Have fun browsing and discovering! SUPERIORE.DE 

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    Top rated | Brunello 2016 & Riserva 2015

    This is what we call a hat trick: After we were able to enjoy the very well-balanced, fruit-driven and almost perfect 2015 vintage last year, the appellation is now doing it again. In terms of elegance, complexity and finesse, the 2016 vintage brings wines to the market that are more comparable to the great 2010 vintage. Compared to the fruity, warm and very harmonious style of the rightly...

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    ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE | South Tyrol's New Releases

    Monica Larner from Robert Parker’s “The Wine Advocate” published her current tasting notes of the South Tyrolean vintages 2017-2020 these days. It shows that the whites and reds are getting better (fresher and more complex) from year to year and that the South Tyrolean winemakers know how to deal with the effects of climate change very well. But read for yourself: “This is my annual report...

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    Vintage 2015 | Brunello di Montalcino

    “The 2015 vintage is a historical year for Brunello di Montalcino that nobody should miss. The wines show impressive precision of vivid fruit, fine tannins and freshness in acidity despite their ripeness and richness which makes them some of the most exciting in years. Winemakers in Montalcino were never better prepared to produce outstanding wines in a year like 2015 with their exactness in...

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    High Ratings | Falstaff — Tuscany's West Coast

    The Tuscan coast is more synonymous than an official wine region. The Tyrrhenian coast of Tuscany is home to dozens of different wine appellations, from Terre di Pisa in the north to Costa Toscana down to Maremma Toscana, Morellino di Scansano, the island of Giglio and some of the interesting IGT wines from Capalbio on Tuscany’s southern border with Lazio. “Today, the region is considered a...

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    VINOUS.COM | The Piedmont Report

    If Antonio Galloni knows an Italian wine region like the back of his hand, it is Piedmont. Long before he was editor-in-chief at Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, he published the first English-language magazine on Italian wine in Italy: the Piemont Report. Today, he runs a modern platform under the name “Vinous”, which deals with all wine regions of the world and gathers a handful of the most...

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    High Ratings | THE WINES OF FRIULI – Fine White Wines

    Friuli lies in the far north-east of Italy, bordering South Tyrol and Austria to the north, Slovenia to the east, Venice to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Many small family wineries still cultivate ancient, little-known grape varieties and, of course, international varieties from Chardonnay and Sauvignon to Cabernet and Merlot have long been completely normal in the larger...

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    VINUM – The best wines from Tuscany

    The images that come to everyone’s mind when speaking of Tuscany are actually always those from the heart of Tuscany, the Chianti region. Everyone thinks of the wonderful hilly landscape between Florence and Siena. But Tuscany is much more. Much bigger. And more diverse. The five most important sub-regions of Tuscany are Bolgheri, Chianti/Chianti Classico, Maremma, Montalcino and...

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    VINOUS.COM — Valpolicella & Amarone: On the move

    As Eric Guido from Vinous.com very aptly points out, Veneto’s paradigm wine Amarone is still too rarely drunk with food. This may be due to the traditional prejudice that, because of its density and often high alcohol and sugar content, this wine is more likely to be accompanied by an aged cheese or a good cigar. Valpolicella (and the Superiore from the core zone) is also generally not...

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    WEINWISSER | Bolgheri 2019 — the boom continues

    In autumn 2021, as part of the new “Bolgheri DiVino” format, an Anteprima was held for the first time in the history of this region, which has been sheerly booming for a good decade now. The presentation was crowned with the fabulous and spectacular dinner on the famous Viale dei Cipressi." This was reported in detail by the editor-in-chief of WEINWISSER Giuseppe Lauria in a wonderfully...

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    Decanter World Wine Awards 2023 | Italy's Top Scorers

    For the 20th time, wines from all over the world were judged by the leading wine experts at the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA). The number of wines examined this year is once again impressive, with a total of 18,250 drops from 57 countries being tasted, 2,777 of which came from Italy alone. With this number, the Decanter World Wine Award has again set a new record this year for the most...

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    VINOUS.COM | The Tuscan Coastal Region

    As every year, Antonio Galloni dedicates a separate tasting report to the exciting Tuscan west coast. And as always, we have brought you the wines available with us from this exciting report “The new wines from the Tuscan coast will give readers much pleasure. The 2020 vintage is somewhat uneven, but the best wines offer remarkable freshness and aromatic intensity, with less weight than is...

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    ROBERT PARKER'S WINE ADVOCATE | Barolo, Barbaresco & Co.

    When Monica Larner, Italy taster for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, publishes her extensive notes on the current collections from Piedmont, it is a highly comprehensive and exciting affair every year. This year, too, she has tasted almost 1,000 samples since spring and has therefore only published the first two major Piedmont rankings in the last few weeks. And a third will follow after the...

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    Nobile di Montepulciano | The red wine of the nobles

    Even if the (Vino) Nobile is not exactly one of the best-known of Italian red wines, it deserves the glamour and reputation of the historic noble wine with which high society, popes and even presidents have filled their wine cellars since the 16th century. In recent years, there seems to be a joyful return to a classic and pure Sangiovese style. Many winemakers are producing an increasingly...

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    Dr. Wine — Over 300 wines with 95-100 points

    Dott. Daniele Cernilli, internationally renowned Italian wine journalist, co-founder and long-standing editor-in-chief of the renowned Italian wine guide Gambero Rosso, has had a new project close to his heart for a few years now: “Doctor Wine” - a very active and successful online platform about Italian wine, which is also published in English. In October 2014, his 550-page “Guida...

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    FALSTAFF | Tasting "Toscana Centrale

    In February 2023, the tasting team of the gourmet magazine FALSTAFF turned to the currently available vintages of central Tuscany. Toscana Centrale” primarily encompasses the Chianti Classico area between Florence and Siena, but also extends beyond this for the Super Tuscan wines. While in earlier years there was always a strong disparity between the quality of the “Super Tuscans” and the...

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    Vintage 2022 | Vino & Olio | More than 60 new Entries

    “The challenges for a vintage have never been greater than in 2022," reported the Italian winegrowers' associations Assoenologi, UIV and Ismea at the end of last year. According to the report, it rained 46 percent less in Italy in the first half of the year than the average of the past 30 years. 2022 was thus the driest year since 1800, so a clear strategy was needed to create the best...

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    VALTELLINA | Rugged rocks — fine wines

    Anyone who thinks that no prickly pears grow in the north of Italy has never been to the Valtellina. The Valtellina - as it is called in German - lies on the border to Switzerland in northern Lombardy and looks back on a wine-growing tradition that is over 2,000 years old. Sheltered by the Rhaetian Alps, the vines here thrive in an optimally sunny southern exposure and benefit from the warm...

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    Vinum | Top of Tuscany 2024

    The VINUM publication “Top of Tuscany” has been published as an annual special issue for 8 years now and presents the most successful wines and wineries of the year from this region. An impressive number of over 1,000 wines were tasted on site, only 400 wines convinced the expert jury and made it into the final list of the best, of which 100 wines ultimately qualified for the “Top of Tuscany”...

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    SLOW WINE | Terroir, Ecology and Value for Money

    The Slow Wine guide, first published in 2010, emerged from the Slow Food movement after they parted ways with the Gambero Rosso publishing house. The well-known Italian wine critics Giancarlo Gariglio and Fabio Giavedoni were able to recruit around 200 experienced tasters for their new project. The success after more than 10 years proves the editors right, because in all regions of Italy,...

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    THE WINE ADVOCATE | South Tyrol — Always look up!

    “Always looking up." is the title of Monika Larner’s current South Tyrol report for Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. “There are tasks and tasks. Every year I am particularly pleased when it is time to taste the wines from South Tyrol in the far north of Italy. My samples usually arrive when the weather is warm, and I particularly look forward to the bright fruit aromas that come from the cool...

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    VINOUS.COM | Brunello 2015 – Vintage from God?

    “It is a vintage full of strength and purity, the result of a long growing season without extreme events. One that was warmer than 2014 and with much less rain, yet the water reserves were high due to the rainfall during the winter months. These reserves helped the vines through the dry, warm and sunny summer months, supplemented by cool night temperatures and just the right amount of rainfall...

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    BRUNELLO 2018 | Sales launch

    Eagerly awaited: Now the first 40+ Brunello di Montalcino of the classic 2018 vintage have arrived in our climate-controlled warehouse. We have collected numerous opinions on the 2018 vintage for you, here is a small sample from Antonio Galloni (Vinous): “In Montalcino, the 2018 vintage is one of the most unique and idiosyncratic vintages in living memory, but this is not to say that the...

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    VINOUS.COM | VENETO — Land of opportunity

    When Italy taster Eric Guido (Vinous.com) calls the wine region of Veneto the “land of opportunity”, wine lovers prick up their ears. But read for yourself how he assesses the current development of the exciting northern Italian wine region southeast of Lake Garda (you can find the full article on our pages). “Every time I travel to Veneto, I discover something new and exciting that...

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    LUCA GARDINI | Best Italy Wine Critic of the World 2022

    When a new star has been rising in the wine critic firmament for 10 years, it is only a matter of time that we present the profound tasting notes and ratings to you as well. The wine critic and sommelier world champion Luca Gardini (born 1981) revealed his outstanding talent early on. He is now also known by the synonym “The Wine Killer” and publishes his profound tasting notes and rankings...

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    WINE ADVOCATE | The Sicily Report 2023

    Italy’s wine island of Sicily has enthralled us for over 20 years. The constant activity of the volcano, the renewal of the fertile volcanic soils, the unique microclimate, the rainfall and the sky-high elevations make Etna a powder keg for agriculture and viticulture. The volcano is the lifeline for one of Italy’s most fertile regions, with vines, some still rooted and over 100 years old,...

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    High ratings | "Tre Bicchieri" Gambero Rosso 2024

    It’s that time again, almost every hour in the last few days the winners of the 2024 edition (publication date 11/2023) of the “Vini d’Italia” were published by the Gambero Rosso publishing house. Since 1988 the probably most important Italian wine leader supplies an irreplaceable, annually updated, reference book for all, which concern themselves gladly and intensively with the multilayered...

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    Valpolicella | The red from the "valley of many cellars"

    If there is one Italian wine region where red wine lovers will find everything their heart desires, then it is the Valpolicella zone in Veneto, located east of Lake Garda near the Soave area between the towns of Bardolino and Verona. The name Valpolicella itself is derived from the Latin term “Vallis Poli Cellae” and translates as “the valley of many cellars”, whose growing area hides a rich...

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    BIBENDA | The winning wines of the Italian Sommelier Association AIS

    Bibenda is a renowned Italian wine guide that is one of the most influential annual wine publications alongside Gambero Rosso and the Veronelli Guide. Bibenda’s rating principle is based on a scale of 1 to 5 grapes, with 5 grapes (Cinque Grappoli) being the highest award. This rating is only awarded to wines that stand out for their exceptional quality and distinctive character. Discover our...

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    THE BEST WINES OF ITALY #2| 95 — 100 points Vinous

    At the beginning of the year, we present the top wines from leading international critics. The second part of our short series features Antonio Galloni, who runs a “modern-day wine platform” with his team at Vinous.com, which involves readers in the communication process. The founder can look back on a proud career as one of the most influential critics in the wine world, including as...

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    THE BEST WINES OF ITALY #1 | 95 — 100 points Wine Advocate

    Over the next few weeks, we will be presenting the top wines from leading international critics. We will start with Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate, in which the world-renowned sommelier Monika Larner has been rating wines according to the 100-point system for years. The trade magazine “The Wine Advocate” (TWA) was founded in 1978 by Robert M. Parker Jr. The American Parker is regarded as one...

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