Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.
Prima Terra was born from the idea and passion and love for Cinque Terre in coastal Liguria. If you haven't been, put it on your list! Walter De Battè is one of the few young and idealistic wine growers and is known worldwide for the quality of his unique wines. Winegrowing has been in his family father back than he can trace. He started at a coop in the 1990s and became disenchanted by the DOC regulations and today intentionally bottles his wines without the appellation and many other regional measures. This is a blend of grapes planted on schistous soils and is very reminiscent of a northern Rhône wine.
The Grenache grape (a.k.a. Grenache Noir) produces relatively pale, fruity red wines that often stop just short of sweetness. Grenache is familiar to most wine drinkers as an ingredient in the blends of the Rhône and Languedoc-Roussillon, where it can add charm to varieties that are a little rougher around the edges. The distinguished Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas appellations are both...
We'd like to clear this up once and for all: the Shiraz grape is genetically identical to Syrah. Australian winemakers put "Shiraz" on the map (and, many would argue, vice versa), and the term is now used throughout much of the New World. Let it never be said, however, that Shiraz and Syrah are the same thing: the region in which the grape is grown determines much about the flavor of the wine it...
While perhaps more famous for its topless beaches, Liguria also produces some truly outstanding and unusual white wines. As the region is dominated primarily by coastal villages, it’s not surprising that the typical Liguria diet is rich in seafood - and as such, snappy, high-acidity whites are quite the M.O. One notable exception is the wine made from the idiosyncratic Pigato grape, which...
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