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This seminar, Challenge of the Red Titans, was fun. It was held Friday afternoon and we had spent the week preceding with serious discussions of Italian wines. We deserved a dash of fun, but the seminar still provided us with valuable information about Italian red wines. We learned a bit about how the big Italian blockbuster wineries are reshaping themselves…
If you are a lover of Valpolicella wines, then you should visit the table of Vini Montresor at VanWineFest 2024. Here is some background on the winery, in their own words. About Vini Montresor In 1892 Giacomo Montresor founded the Giacomo Montresor Cellars, giving life to a production that, since then and until today, is an identity expression of its…
One of the newer Italian wineries, FEMAR VINI SRL, formed in the 1990s. They are in the Apulia region of Italy and will be attending VanWineFest 2024 to let us try their wines. They use an appassimento method where they dry the grapes. Other wineries pick the grapes and dry the grapes in bins/racks. FEMAR lets the grapes dry on…
I knew nothing about Ontario’s Big Head Wines until it was suggested to me to visit by Talia Mendelsohn from the Bacchus Group Inc. in Toronto, but this winery in particular truly impressed me with their wines and their winemaking methods. If you ever get a chance to visit the Niagara region, do not miss visiting Big Head Wines. The…
