Wine ChroniclesContextual concerns in blind tasting
29 August 2014 By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com Blind tasting at an international contest as comprehensive as Mundus Vini can be a daunting task. For five days in a row, judges fly to Germany from all over the world. They get up at 6:30 am in order to taste wines from 8 am until about […]
Place over grape: making wine waves in Southern Styria (p. 2)
Blind proof By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles After discovering the general lay of the land thanks to Tamara Kögl in part 1 of this blog, a blind tasting organized the day of the World Cup Final between Germany and Argentina by Michael Gross of Weingut Gross revealed to me a thing or two about wine – […]
Place over grape: making wine waves in Southern Styria (p. 1)
By Panos Kakaviatos for wine-chronicles.com Take a walk along the sinuous and sumptuous Southern Styrian wine region in Ratsch today and it is hard to believe that but 40 years ago, it was a very poor area with few if any winemakers and many more farmers. Taxes were paid to local officials with oxen or farm produce. “There […]
The ”unhidden gem” of Italy: Lugana DOC (3)
By Rita Tóth, for wine-chronicles.com (This three-part blog also has appeared in Jens De Maere’s Belgian Wino blog with full permission of the author) METODO CLASSICO SPARKLING WINES OF LUGANA DOC After having tasted some lovely wines in part one and part two of this blog, what really impressed me during our trip was the quality of classic method […]
The ”unhidden gem” of Italy: Lugana DOC (2)
By Rita Tóth, for wine-chronicles.com (This three-part blog also has appeared in Jens De Maere’s Belgian Wino blog with full permission of the author) Part 1 was a short overview of the Lugana region, but now we examine the surprising aging potential of some of its best wines. AGEING POTENTIAL Although 90% of the regions’ production is the ’basic […]
The “unhidden gem” of Italy: Lugana DOC (1)
By Rita Tóth, for wine-chronicles.com (This three-part blog also has appeared in Jens De Maere’s Belgian Wino blog with full permission of the author) Even though more than 70% of Lugana DOC wines are exported – mainly to Germany, USA, Belgium, Northern Europe, China, Japan and UK – many people may have never heard of this fine […]
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