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10 Excellent wine around 15€ Falanghina 2009–Aia dei Colombi

wineinside — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:41:11 +0000

Grape :Falanghina 100%
Alcohol : 13/ 13,5%
Denomination : Falanghina D.o.c

Falanghina grape is one of Italy’s oldest wine it was famous during the Roman emperor period and it’s extremely famous in Italy now. You can find it in every restaurant from north to south. Often the quality unfortunately it’s not at the top, and for this reason it’s important to identify some good wineries. This small winery Aia dei Colombi do a Falanghina like it should be. Both the nose and palate very fresh and pleasant with good acidity but does not disturb. The nose has light citrus references, while in the mouth has the right freshness and persistence. In their winey it cost 6€, which makes this wine a perfect starting point to appreciate the Falanghina

Rate it 3/5 and Best Buy

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10 Excellent wine around 15€ Rigoleto 2008–Collemassari

wineinside — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:03:00 +0000

As you probably already know, majority of the big names of the Italian wine flank to their top wine, minor wine, but most of the time anyway excellents.

In thi article I’ll start to describe this wine, that for sure, for one person that want to start tasting wine, could be a good approach, also for their pockets

Rigoleto 2008 – Collemassari

Big Brother – Grattamacco

From this wine I’ll start to give also a “technical” description:

Grape : 70% Sangiovese., 15% Ciliegiolo, 15% Montepulciano
Alcohol : 13,5%
Denomination D.o.c. Montecucco
Particularity: Biological

I have to say that this wine it’s really good, fresh, despite the alcohol grade, and tasty at the same time, I could define it light, but certainly not trivial. It’s biologic, so for sure it’s hard to have an headache the day after, also if you exceed with the quantity ( I cna tell you from a personal experience ) . For a price, around 10€ it deserve for sure an high rate.

Rate 4/5 and best buy

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Il Pareto 1999 – Tenuta di Nozzole

wineinside — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:57:07 +0000

We know since a long time, the international varieties blend well pair with the wonderful land of Tuscany, This cabernet is an other proof. I found by accident a while ago a bottle of 1999 and frankly I thought I had waited a little too much to open it and I did not expect a great result, I was wrong. I do not remember what I paid for this wine but for sure I have made a good deal. As I said is a pure Cabernet Sauvignon, grown in the Tuscany region and more precisely in Greve in Chianti, and I think is the flagship wine of the Tenuta of Nozzole, owned by the family Folonari that held estates in Tuscany. The wine is aged after harvest in french oak barrels for 16/18 marketed not before he spent at least 6 months in bottle. It has an intense ruby red color (considering that the bottle I had drunk was 12 years old) with a pleasant smell of vanilla and red fruit of wild berries, where prevailing blackberries in my opinion. The flavor is elegant with soft tannins would call refined, and good persistence.

Rate 4/5

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Sixty Forty 2008 – Rienzi

wineinside — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:40:54 +0000

I have got this wine on EBay intrigued by the description. According to what I read this wine it’s only sold in U.S.
Despite to the name the wine is made with a 75% of Aglianico grape and 25% of Sangiovese. All of my friend I have drink this wine with were enthusiast and indeed is one of that wine which I define “easy drinking”. Both nose and taste are fresh but the structure is not weak, but at the same time has not strong character. The nose is full of red fruit but not too complex meanwhile the taste it’s a bit light in my opinion with a short persistence in mouth. Probably if you are more oriented on red wine also during the hot summer probably this is the wine you are looking for.

P.s. I forgot to take a picture and I didn’t find on Internet if you find it or you have one, please send it

Rate 3/5

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Quater 2009 – Firriato

wineinside — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:09:01 +0000

Reading the label of this wine you can guess that this wine seems to be a real challenge. It ‘made with 4, and let me underline 4, native Sicilian grape varieties differ. The idea of being faced with a very balanced wine is strong. However, I take off the prejudice and wait for the waiter will do his duty. Surprise! The wine at the nose seems well balanced but at the same time strong, powerful, I would say. Personally, I love you loads and structured wines, but perhaps more than a match for the fish dinner a fish fry. And even if the experiment is successful, I would not call this wine a summer wine (read fresh) given its 14% alcohol, which together with the load they do taste very good but might be a bit heavy.

Rate 3/4

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Summer is coming

wineinside — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:36:26 +0000

Summer is coming so await some good white wine review

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Fortediga 2007 – Fortediga

wineinside — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:57:01 +0000

Having a look of the website of this winery I had two surprise.In the home page they said “Fortediga the wine inside”
and second they are located in Roccastrada, were a good friend of mine came from. It’s time to accept his invite to go .

This wine directly entered in the best buy category, because I got it for 12€ in a wine store in Milan, and believe 12€ are really little money for this wine. Made with Cabernet Sauvignon (30%) Cabernet Franc (30%) and Syrah (40%) belong to the supertuscan category. The colour is a deep ruby red and at the nose is an explosion of ripe red fruits, marmalade, it’s powerfull in the mouth and round and full-bodied, perfectly balanced with a long and persisten end.

Rate it 4/5 and best buy

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Chianti Classico 2006 – Castello di Ama

wineinside — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:56:22 +0000

I have to admit that 90% of the time that I think about a Chianti, my mind recall an image connected to Castello di Ama, and this is not a case because this winery with this wine and even more with Vigneto la Casuccia gives a wonderful expression of the Chianti. This wine has a beautiful ruby color is very concentrated, with lovely floral nose of violet and cyclamen with hints of black pepper and humus. The mouth is persistent, with a huge tannin structure, but not aggressive, a persistence that seems to have no end. A wine of tremendous character, which celebrates perfectly the greatness of Chianti Sangiovese.

Rate 4/5

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Le Volte 2008 – Ornellaia

wineinside — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:37:30 +0000

With this wine I want to close the ideal circle of the “little brothers” wines. Yes because, together with Le Macchiole,little brother of Messorio and Le Difese of Sassicaia, respectively from le Macchiole and Tenuta San Guido wineries, this wine rapresent the little brother of a great wine: Tenuta dell’Ornellaia. I belive that this 3 wines rapresent the possibility to approach at a reasonable price to the quality that this wineries put in their work. I don’t want to say, obviusly, that we are at the same level of the big brother, but for sure we are at a good starting point. Talking about the wine, has an interesting deep violet colour with a sweet now that anyway has a sour note. Taste is quite soft but the acid note is a little too pronounced, but the overall quality is certainly appreciated.

Rate 3/5

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The perfect wine notebook

wineinside — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:58:53 +0000