Wine 1968

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 1968 Chianti Classico...

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 1968 Chianti Classico...

Fritz Kupelwieser planted the vineyard in 1878 near the Caldaro Sea in the north part of Italy, Alto Adige. Only carefully selected grapes from Alto Adige traditionally produced under strict quality standards are used for the wines. With the 1968 Pinot Nero Kupelwieser Lago di Caldaro, comes a personal present meant for a person who is very special to you. We deliver the...

The wine house Lorenzo Bertolo e Figli has been for a long time a landmark for the production of refined Piedmont’s wines. Lorenzo Bertolo, founder and administrator has produced a company which started from the “Langhe” and from “Monferrato” and has selected the best plots of land of the typical areas of production, has taken care of the ageing in Slavonian oak barrels and...

The Monferrato zone lays claim to being Barbera's birthplace, and records of it growing there as far back as the 13th century. But the hills around Alba and Monforte d'Alba have proved they are capable of growing some particularly fine Barbera, as are parts of the Asti province. Century-old vines still exist in many regional vineyards and allow for the production of...

The Bersano winery was founded in the end of the 19th century in Nizza Monferrato. Bersano has today over 230 hectars in the best Cru areas in Barolo and Langhe, making the largest private wine grower company in Piedmont. The premium wines are from the Conti di Cremosina vineyards. When subjected to aging of at least five years before release, the wine can be labeled a...

The Melini family constructed their first winery in 1705 in Pontassieve, a village on the outskirts of Florence , and is one of the Chianti region’s oldest and most historic wineries. Founder Adolpho Laborel Melini used pasteurization in winemaking 33 years before Louis Pasteur wrote about the process. Melini introduced the fiasco strapeso, a tempered glass bottle that made...

The Monferrato zone lays claim to being Barbera's birthplace, and records of it growing there as far back as the 13th century. But the hills around Alba and Monforte d'Alba have proved they are capable of growing some particularly fine Barbera, as are parts of the Asti province. Century-old vines still exist in many regional vineyards and allow for the production of...

The classical dry red wine comes from the Barbaresco DOC in Northern Italy, the important wine region of Piedmont. Barbaresco is one of the great wines of Piedmont. It is a wine of extremely ancient origin and was mentioned by Livy in his monumental History of Rome. It was only toward the middle of the 19th century, however, that production was begun of a dry type of wine,...

Prior to 1894, Nebbiolo grapes were sold to make Barolo wine or simply labelled "Nebbiolo di Barbaresco". But in 1894, Domizio Cavazza, headmaster of the Royal Enological School of Alba and a Barbaresco resident, understood that there were differences between Nebbiolo grapes grown in the Barolo district versus the same grapes grown in the Barbaresco district and, for the...

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...

Barolo is a world of family farmers, of small winegrowers who still work their vineyards to make a quality wine that mature with calm, with rough-tannined and with prominent acidity as a product of the ancient tradition. So is the way of work of the estate Capetta. With the 1968 Barolo Capetta, comes a personal present meant for a person who is very special to you. We...