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Gattinara is a red wine with Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita status produced from Nebbiolo grapes grown in vineyards in the hills in the north of the province of Vercelli, northwest of Novara, and westward toward the Alps with the town of Gattinara near its center. It is one of a few regions in Italy that have been awarded DOCG status and shares that...

Chianti is that part of Tuscany that is bordered to the north by the suburbs of Florence, to the east by the Chianti Mountains, to the south by the city of Siena and to the west by the valleys of the Pesa and Elsa rivers. The first notarial document in which the name Chianti appeared in reference to the wine produced in the zone dates to 1398. With the 1967 Chianti Classico...

Gattinara is a red wine with Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita status produced from Nebbiolo grapes grown in vineyards in the hills in the north of the province of Vercelli, northwest of Novara, and westward toward the Alps with the town of Gattinara near its center. It is one of a few regions in Italy that have been awarded DOCG status and shares that...

In the year 1877, the cousins Leopoldo and Ilario Ruffino developing their own small winery in a town near Florence, Pontassieve. Ruffino become popular for their balanced and clean wines, embracing the motto “Here We Make Ideal Wine.” The status also of Ruffino family was also established firmly both internationally and nationally when its own Ruffino Chianti won the gold...

The hilltops of Sancerre vineyards spread through 14 villages. The two grape varieties in Sancerre are the Sauvignon Blanc and the Pinot Noir. They have gained the AOC status in 1936. The red and rosé wines, made from the noble Pinot Noir, followed in 1959 when they were awarded the AOC accreditation. With the 1967 Chateau de Sancerre, comes a personal present meant for a...

The classical dry red wine comes from the Barolo DOC in Northern Italy, the most important wine region of Piedmont. Prior to the mid-19th century, Barolo was a sweet wine. The fact that the Nebbiolo grape ripens late in October meant that temperatures would be steadily dropping by harvest. By November and December, temperatures in the Piedmont region would be cold enough to...

The classical dry red wine comes from the Barbaresco DOC in Northern Italy, the important wine region of Piedmont. Founded 1878 Fontanafredda Estate & Winery, located in the heart of Piedmont’s Langhe region at Serralunga d'Alba, was always a benchmark for Barolo and Barbaresco wines. The 250-acre Fontanafredda cru property is the single largest contiguous wine estate in the...

One of the oldest established Barolo houses and the most important landowner of Barolo’s greatest crus. Its viticultural beginnings date back to the 1700s, and Oddero’s first bottle was released in 1878. In 1951 the brothers Giacomo and Luigi Oddero began bottling their family's wines in Santa Maria, a frazione of La Morra, in the heart of the Barolo zone. With the 1968...

The story begins in 1807, in Paris, when the Marquis of Barolo Carlo Tancredi Falletti married Juliette Colbert de Maulévrier, a French noblewoman and the great granddaughter of the Minister of Finance Colbert by Luigi XIV . Juliette saw the great potential of the wine made in Barolo that, after a complete fermentation and a long aging in wood, would have been able to unveil...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Margaux in Médoc. The Margaux appellation encompasses the village of Margaux and the neighboring villages of Arsac, Labarde, Soussans and Cantenac. It is the most southerly of Médoc's appellations. This region has the thinnest soil in Medoc with the highest proportion of gravel that allows the soil to drain very well. The...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux. Saint-Émilion is an Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for wine in the Bordeaux wine region of France, where it is situated in the Libourne subregion on the right bank of the Dordogne. The wines of Saint-Émilion are typically blended from different grape varieties, the three main ones being...

Château Clerc-Milon is not far from Lafite Rothschild and Mouton-Rothschild and it was acquired by Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1970. in the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 it was classified as Fifth Growths. The name of the estate is derived from its former owner Jean-Baptiste Clerc, who owned it at the time of the 1855 classification, and the village of...

The classical dry red wine comes from the appellation St.Julien in Bordeaux. Château Léoville Las Cases is one of the largest and oldest classified growths in the Médoc. It is the largest of the 3 Léoville properties and now without doubt the leading estate in St-Julien. Léoville Las Cases own 97 hectares of Cabernet Sauvignon dominated vineyards. The estate lie on...

The Château Mouton Rothschild vineyard is planted on very deep gravelly soil on the hillock Plateau de Mouton 27 m above sea-level. The Cabernet Sauvignon predominates with 80%, Merlot is planted withonly 16% the other vines are Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Mouton Rothschild store of his very long-live wine 3000 bottles as R.C. - Reserve of Château - from every year. The...

Arnaud III de Pontac, a leading nobleman and the first president of the regional parliament- who insisted that the red wine from his family's estate, located in Pessac, was an unique, that didn't had sold to négociants, who then blended it with other wines. Starting in 1660, he demanded a premium price for a wine with a name that no one beyond Bordeaux knew- "Haut- Brion",...

The history of Château Latour dates back at least to the 14th century, even though the vineyards for which it is now world-renowned were not fully established until the 17th century. The estate is located at the southern edge of Pauillac, bordering the St. Julien vineyards of Château Léoville Las Cases, and covers 78 hectares. In style the wine is powerful, structured and...