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What’s new, Montalcino?
The image shows this year’s commemorative plaque, created by the fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo, afixed to the outside wall of Montalcino’s Palazzo Pubblico. The last stage of the Tuscan tasting marathon is traditionally Montalcino. What also seems to have become a tradition, or at least a recurrent theme, is that every year some kind of ...
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Gaja and the bloggers
19 Feb 2009 Angelo Gaja, whose estate hasn’t even got a website, recently seized the opportunity to reflect online with the help of an army of bloggers. While it may seem that the Brunello di Montalcino scandal has lost most of its newsworthiness, especially after the majority of its producers voted with a clear ‘no’ ...
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Brunellogate’s bitter sequel
6 October 2008 Friday just past saw a bitter confrontation between some of the principal protagonists in the Brunellogate affair in a Face to Face Debate held in Siena. The ones responsible for the scandal are journalists in general and Italian wine writer Franco Ziliani in particular, according to Ezio Rivella, once consultant enologist to ...