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Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Giorgio Castellini

From Sassicaia's origins as a private experiment to PodereSette, the boutique estate built by a family who arrived in Bolgheri with nothing in 1953; this is the full story of...

Once Upon a Time in Bolgheri

Giorgio Castellini

From Sassicaia's origins as a private experiment to PodereSette, the boutique estate built by a family who arrived in Bolgheri with nothing in 1953; this is the full story of...

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

Giorgio Castellini

Sicily has been making wine since 4,000 BC, survived Arab rule, phylloxera, and decades of bulk production, and is now one of Italy's most exciting wine regions. From the ancient...

A Wine Offer You Can't Refuse

Giorgio Castellini

Sicily has been making wine since 4,000 BC, survived Arab rule, phylloxera, and decades of bulk production, and is now one of Italy's most exciting wine regions. From the ancient...

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Giorgio Castellini

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has a papal endorsement, a 17th-century poet declaring it king of all wines, and a winemaker who is equally serious about music. This is the story...

Stone, Song, and Sangiovese

Giorgio Castellini

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has a papal endorsement, a 17th-century poet declaring it king of all wines, and a winemaker who is equally serious about music. This is the story...

From Maremma, With Love

From Maremma, With Love

Giorgio Castellini

Maremma is the wilder side of Tuscany: reclaimed swampland turned wine country in under a century. Tenuta Il Quinto is making some of the most interesting wines in the region....

From Maremma, With Love

Giorgio Castellini

Maremma is the wilder side of Tuscany: reclaimed swampland turned wine country in under a century. Tenuta Il Quinto is making some of the most interesting wines in the region....

The Unbearable Lightness of Roero

The Unbearable Lightness of Roero

Giorgio Castellini

A personal reckoning with Barolo, a primer on Piedmont's best-kept secrets, and why the Roero (same grape, different bank of the Tanaro) might be the more honest glass. Plus, the...

The Unbearable Lightness of Roero

Giorgio Castellini

A personal reckoning with Barolo, a primer on Piedmont's best-kept secrets, and why the Roero (same grape, different bank of the Tanaro) might be the more honest glass. Plus, the...

You Had Me At Anfiteatro

You Had Me At Anfiteatro

Giorgio Castellini

A personal twenty-year story with Vecchie Terre di Montefili: from a chance bottle of Anfiteatro at a Florentine trattoria to importing their wines into Singapore. Three soils, old vines, and...

You Had Me At Anfiteatro

Giorgio Castellini

A personal twenty-year story with Vecchie Terre di Montefili: from a chance bottle of Anfiteatro at a Florentine trattoria to importing their wines into Singapore. Three soils, old vines, and...