DiWineTaste Podcast - English

Mirabella in one of the historical wineries of Franciacorta, founded in 1979 by wine maker Teresio Schiavi and engineer Giacomo Cavalli, it has always been a well distinguished winery in the Italian wine scene for the excellence of its bubbles. Franciacorta Dosaggio Zero Riserva D0M 2006 certainly is the proof of the quality produced in Mirabella's vineyards, a Franciacorta or remarkable elegance...

Created by the intuition of Marquees Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga, believing his land was capable of making wines of absolute excellence, San Leonardo 2000 - the first vintage to be made by wine maker Carlo Ferrini after the great Giacomo Tachis handed over the making - confirms the greatness and elegance of this immense wine from Trentino. Seventeen years of glorious evolution for an impeccable elegan...

Montefalco Sagrantino Spinning Beauty 2006 - a monumental wine aged for eight years in barrique - conquers the crown of best wine of February 2017 and DiWineTaste five diamonds. A superlative wine, fruit of the experimentation and far-sightedness of Arnaldo Caprai winery, led by Marco Caprai, taking Sagrantino, once again, to the top of worldwide Olympus of wine making.

From Campo San Giorgio vineyard, Umani Ronchi Osimo's estate, comes this magnificent Conero Riserva of sumptuous elegance and character, an interpretation of Montepulciano conquering DiWineTaste five diamonds and the title of best wine of January 2017.

Trento Extra Brut Giulio Ferrari Riserva del Fondatore 2004, one of the best representatives of Italian bubbles in the world, conquers DiWineTaste five diamonds and the title of best wine of December 2016. A monumental wine of endless elegance, give the sense an extraordinary organoleptic experience, from sight to the endless persistent, with a symphony of magnificent enological excellence.

Cantine del Notaio with its Aglianico del Vulture Il Sigillo 2010 conquers DiWineTaste five diamonds and the title of best wine for November 2016. A magnificent interpretation of Aglianico from overripe and dries grapes for a result of remarkable power and elegance, the renewed proof of the excellence produced in this winery of Rionero in Vulture.

Planeta is one of the most significant wineries of Sicily, protagonist of the enological prestige of the island, with estates in the most representative viticultural areas of the region. Menfi Chardonnay 2014 - one of the most renowned wines made by Planeta - conquers DiWineTaste diamonds and the title of the best wine of October 2016, a magnificent interpretation of the famous Burgundian grape th...

For the second time a wine made by Fattori winery of Terrossa di Roncà - in province of Verona, Italy - conquers the title of best wine of the month. September awarded the excellent Amarone delle Valpolicella created by the talent of Antonio Fattori and his wine vision, a magnificent red having power and charming and endless elegance.

Evien Oro 2013 conquers the title of the best wine of summer 2016, a great white created by Fabrizio Ressia after having experimented on Muscat Blanc in the Langa are for a long time. Charming, aromatic and rare elegance, Evien Oro is the result of the passion for aromatic wines associated to the greatness of a generous and prestigious territory.

Fiano certainly is one of the most prestigious white berried grapes of Italy, mother of extraordinary wines and having in Irpinia - the famous wine land in province of Avellino - one of its most elegant expressions. Vinified in inert containers, Fiano di Avellino Alimata 2013 gives our sense a charming crispness joined to a charming roundness, a perfect wine being, undoubtedly, a magnificent compa...

Elena Fucci is a talented vintner or Basilicata, famous all over the world for her extraordinary Aglianico del Vulture Titolo, a reference wine for this territtory since a long time. With vintage 2013 - the first time this winery is being reviewed in our Guide - conquers DiWineTaste five diamonds as well as the title of the best wine for this month. A magnificent Aglianico, emblem of Vulture, char...

The fact Campania is a land of great white wines - not to mention red wines - it is a well known thing. Taburno certainly is one of the most interesting territories of this region and here, at Torrecuso in province of Benevento, is located the historical Fontanavecchia winery, mainly committed to Aglianico and Falanghina. One of the great wines made by Rillo family - Taburno Falanghina Facetus 200...

For the second time the Sagrantino of the famous Arnaldo Caprai winery conquers the title of best wine of the month. Montefalco Sagrantino 25 Anni, certainly among the most appreciated and known representatives of this grape and land, also conquers and confirms DiWineTaste five diamonds. A wine joining power to elegance, an endless charm made of a magic balance and class.

San Leonardo conquers for the second time the title of the best wine of the month. After vintage 2007, 2010 too has been awarded with this title, as well as DiWineTaste five diamonds. Created by the intuition of Marquis Carlo Guerrieri Gonzaga and Giacomo Tachis - the greatest of Italian wine makers - San Leonardo is a wine of absolute excellence, a magnificent masterpiece of elegance and class, f...

Sartarelli is committed to the vinification of Verdicchio and in their vineyards is exclusively cultivated this magnificent white berried grape of Marches. Here is being produced one of the greatest expressions of this variety - Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore Balciana - produced with late harvested grapes and, in certain years, affected by noble rot. A great wine confirming in...

Quereciabella, one of the most prestigious and interesting wineries of Tuscany and Italy, conquers, with its extraordinary Palafreno 2012, the title of the best wine for December 2015. A Merlot of absolute wine making magnificence, of rare quality and class, Palafreno 2012 is certainly a wine reaching the top of worldwide enology, five DiWineTaste diamonds of excellence.

The Garofoli family represents the history of wine making in Marches region, among the protagonists of the rebirth of Verdicchio, the giant white berried grape of Marches. To their monumental Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore Podium 2013 goes the title of the best wine of November 2015, five diamonds of extraordinary class and elegance.

Valle dell'Acate is one of the historical wineries of Sicily and the province of Ragusa. A winery involved since its beginning to the production of wines from indigenous grapes - Nero d'Avola, Frappato, Inzolia and Grillo - it is one of the protagonists of Cerasuolo di Vittoria and Frappato di Vittoria. In 2008 they decided to make a dream from what it promised to be an exceptional vintage: this i...

Gran Masetto is present in our Guide since many years and at every review it has been capable of conquering DiWineTaste Five Diamonds. Even vintage 2011 confirms the same prestigious result, by also conquering the title of the best wine of September 2015, a goal this reached for the second time in two years.

Cannonau represents the enology of red wines in Sardinia. Its origins have been debated for a long time and believed to be introduced from Spain, where it is known as Garnacha Tinta. Important archaeologic discoveries in Sardinia allowed the history of Cannonau to be rewritten as well as the history of viticulture of the Mediterranean area, by finding out the famous red grape is present in the isl...

A magic wine, fruit of absolutely unique climatic and environmental conditions and made in Orvieto - in Umbria - in the hills dominating Corbara lake. To the magic take part the essential and precious contribution of noble rot - the famous Botrytis Cinerea - and the commitment for quality: this is how Barberani's Orvieto Classico Superiore Calcaia 2012 is made, a symphony of charming aromas and an...

Soave Motto Piane is the best wine of June 2015: not just it conquers DiWineTaste Five Diamonds but also the sun, therefore a good value wine. Made by the competence of Antonio Fattori - one of the most skilled and many-sided vintners of Soave - Motto Piane 2013 expresses elegance and balance, as well as impeccable cleanness. A great white wine made from 100% Garganega, dried for 40 days and part...

A sensorial perception found in every style, acidity plays a fundamental and specific role in every type of wine. It is right the intensity and nature of this element to contribute to quality and balance of wine: from white to red, from sparkling to sweet, in each of them it strongly contributes to the agreeableness of taste.

Yet another Brunello di Montalcino conquers DiWineTaste Five Diamonds and the title of the best wine of the month. Montosoli cru, besides being one of the most famouse representatives of Brunello di Montalcino, is also the very first cru ever made in this territory in 1975. A wine which marked the history of Montalcino and still today - year after year - confirms its excellence.

Chef Tommaso Arrigoni runs Innocenti Evasioni restaurant since 1998, in zona Portello (Milan, Italy), with his partner Chef Eros Picco. Besides working in the kitchen of the restaurant - having one Michel star - Chef Tommaso Arrigoni is in charge of the cellar too, by personally visiting wineries and discovering the bottles to be added in his wine list.