Winemaker Peter Vinding-Diers has left his mark from Bordeaux to South America to Hungary. He’s writing his last chapter in Italy’s deep south, growing Syrah at his own Montecarrubo estate
Small is still beautiful when it comes to vineyards on Europe’s “hot” volcano as newcomers including Michele and Claudia Calabretta of Tenuta Boccarossa continue to arrive to make Nerello Mascalese, Carricante and other Sicilian wines.
Winemaker Alessandro Campatelli working in the vineyard at Reicine Riecine, an estate in northern Gaiole, turned in its best performance ever in our recent Tuscan tasting panels, leading all other wines in the Chianti Classico Annata, Riserva and Gran Selezione categories. Riecine has had three owners and three winemakers in its fifty-year history. When current