One of the nicer surprises I’ve had with a $20 bottle of wine occurred last week when I pulled the cork on the little Morellino di Scansano from Le Pupille. I was tasting it as part of a post for our blog with the title ‘The Outing of Sangiovese.”
The idea was to help identify the places where sangiovese is more or less in hiding. Although the post focused on Tuscany, there are several other regions outside this one where the varietal plays a significant role, including Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, and the Abruzzo. But I digress . . . the sangiovese-based Morellino is a sweetheart and, I think, a bit of a sleeper. Congrats to Maureen and Liz for finding it and bringing it in. There are notes for it on the aforementioned post and in our database.
Andrew Bishop has started sending out a weekly newsletter featuring, among other things, profiles of Oz winemakers. Andrew is a fine writer and the info about the properties and personalities behind some of the wines we carry is really useful. Read his profile of Domaine Augis here. I enjoyed it.
I’m posting Andrew’s newsletters to my kippt site, so you can retrieve them there by opening a free kippt account and following me at stephenmeuse.
You may remember that I used the CB blog to point to Jeremy Parzen’s Italian wine terms pronunciation project . Well, this week I discovered something similar being done for German wine terms – but which goes a bit further by providing videos that put the terms to music and provide some amusing outtakes. I thought it was fun, and I learned something, too.
learn to pronounce German wine terms: http://goo.gl/NespU
learn to pronounce German wine terms (to music): http://goo.gl/8y2yD
learn to pronounce German wine terms (outtakes):http://goo.gl/pKoCo
-stephen