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Gambero Rosso Top Italian Wines!

Gambero Rosso Top Italian Wines!

Story and photos by Dr. Michael Lim The Travelling Gourmet TM Copyright all rights reserved The indomitable and irrepressible Travelling Gourmet TM celebrates the…  MARVELLOUS return of Gambero Rosso’s   Top Italian Wines Roadshow to Singapore with fine wines from 52 illustrious Italian wineries – Singapore is the first country in Asia to host the roadshow after a two-year hiatus! – Three…

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L to R: Gambero Rosso Managing Director Luigi Salerno, Rosalba Ferraro, Gino Ferraro, Gambero Rosso Senior Editor Marco Sabellico. (Photo Courtesy of Ferraro’s) FERRARO’S RISTORANTE EARNS TOP AWARD FOR ITALIAN FOOD FROM GLOBAL AUTHORITY GAMBERO

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Capodanno: consigli e vademecum salva-gaffe per il brindisi

Re per una notte forse, ma sommelier non ci si improvvisa. Neanche a Capodanno. Per il brindisi di mezzanotte “una bollicina, che sia Metodo Classico o Italiano, non va ruotata nel bicchiere per non disperdere la preziosa effervescenza. Con gli spumanti quindi non esagerare con lo swirling, come dicono gli inglesi”. A dirlo è Marco Sabellico, storico curatore della Guida Vini d’Italia del Gambero…

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Italy's Mr Wine Sees a Bright Future

Marco Sabellico has tasted more Italian wine than pretty much anyone, and he believes there are exciting times ahead. Given the complex and ever-changing nature of the Italian wine industry, it's safe to say that there are few authorities on the subject; Marco Sabellico however, is most assuredly one of them. For the past 30 years, he has tasted thousands of wines for Gambero Rosso – often referred to as the Italian Wine Bible – and, since 2010, he has been the senior editor of the publication's Vini d'Italia. This annual guide represents tastings of tens of thousands of Italian wines each year, with approximately 1 percent rated as Tre Bicchieri (Three Glasses), signifying their status as the tasting panel's best of the year. Suffice it to say that few individuals have tasted as many Italian wines over the past three decades as Sabellico. Clearly, he has witnessed significant changes in his country’s wines over this time frame; we recently interviewed him to learn his thoughts on how Italian wine producers have shifted their thinking regarding several topics, from work in the vineyards necessitated by climate change to a shift in how wines are fermented and matured in the cellar. This latter subject is one that Sabellico is quite outspoken about. Concrete plans One change Sabellico has noticed recently is the choice of vessels used for fermentation. "Concrete is coming back," he remarks. "It was forgotten for quite a long time." Decades before stainless steel was introduced for fermentation in the 1970s, most winemakers used concrete; some would also mature their wines in concrete as well. Regarding aging, Sabellico notes: "The producers keep it there for quite a long time. Sometimes they ferment in concrete vats, either refurbished ones that they didn't destroy, or the new concept, the small, modern fermenting vats." But it is the shift away from barriques to medium and large-sized casks that Sabellico detects as a major change over the past few years in the country's cellars. "The most modern producers in Italy are using less barrique," he comments. "Most of the wines we awarded are not aged in 100 percent new oak." He notes that most wines aged exclusively in new barriques are made from international varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay, which represent a very small percent of Italian wines in an industry where indigenous varieties, such as Nebbiolo, Sangiovese, Verdic and Fiano represent the paradigm. Over the past several years, Sabellico has noticed that more producers have converted to medium-sized (tonneaux) or large-sized (grandi botti) oak casks. "They are moving to bigger casks, such as 40 or 50 hectoliters [4000 to 5000 liters, as compared with 225 liters for a barrique]. Tonneaux – 500 or 600 liters – is also doing well." He has also witnessed a movement where some producers are now using barrels made from wood other than oak. Looking beyond oak "We have some experiments with different essences like cherry wood, acacia, and even chestnut," he says. "The traditional oak, the essence of oak used in Italy before the new renaissance of Italian wine was chestnut. Then it was said that it was no good, so everybody destroyed them. Some are now trying with the new kind of toasting, with smaller capacity; there are some signals I have that chestnut alongside acacia and cherry wood are in use in wineries." He says that cherry and acacia casks are popular in the Valpolicella area for producing Amarone. Sabellico has noticed that anforae, containers used thousands of years ago for storing wine, have also made a comeback. "I must say, anforae are doing very well. I've seen a lot of anforae, modern anforae of course, with stainless steel hardware applied. They are perfectly closed, so not with open air like in the natural wine, orange wine world, where the wines are oxidized. They use this new kind of anforae which are perfectly closed, so there is no oxidation, but there is an exchange of oxygen with the atmosphere, so it is good for the wine, as there is no electricity like in stainless

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Orizzonti di Syrah, Degustazione di Syrah alla cieca, dal mondo, condotta da Gianni Fabrizio | Martedì 12 novembre 2019 ore 17.00 | Az. Agricola Punto Zero - Lonigo (VI)

Orizzonti di Syrah, Degustazione di Syrah alla cieca, dal mondo, condotta da Gianni Fabrizio | Martedì 12 novembre 2019 ore 17.00 | Az. Agricola Punto Zero – Lonigo (VI)

foto  instagram su Facebook – Punto Zero Martedì sera si è svolto presso l’Azienda Agricola Punto Zero a Lonigo (VI) l’ evento a margine, condotto da Gianni Fabrizio, che è curatore assieme a Marco Sabellicodella Guida Vini d’italia del Gambero Rosso ed. 2019, evento a cui ho avuto l’onore di partecipare e per questo ringrazio Marcella, Titolare dell’Azienda e Michele di Studio Cru. E’ stata…

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Turnbull Early-Printed Fragments 2: The History of Venice

This week’s newly identified fragment comes from an Italian edition of Marco Antonio Coccio’s Decades rerum Venetarum, a history of Venice modeled on the history of ancient Rome by Livy.

Coccio, known as Sabellico (1436-1506), moved from Udine, where he was professor of eloquence, to Venice in 1484. Plague forced him to relocate to Verona where he completed his Decades. He later returned to Venice where it was published in 1487 by Andreas Torresanus - heir to the printing firm established by the great Aldus Manutius. The Republic of Venice enjoyed Sabellico’s history so much that it granted him a pension and he was later appointed Librarian of St Mark’s Basilica.

The Italian edition was translated from the Latin by Matheo Vesconte and printed in Milan by Gottardo da Ponte for Oldradus Lampugnanus in about 1510.

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Serate musicali all'area archeologica Caposele di Formia

Locandina L'Associazione Atopon Culture e Dialoghi, con il patrocinio del Comune di Formia, organizza all'Arena Caposele un doppio appuntamento musicale nell'ambito di Summer Events: la direzione artistica è di Marianna Rossi Sabato 8 agosto alle 21:00 "The Beatles Strings", le canzoni dei Beatles come non le avete mai ascoltate! Si esibiranno Fabio "Macca" Bianchini (Piano, Paul Vocals) e Max "Walrus" Evangelista alla Chitarra Acustica, John Vocals. Insieme a loro saliranno sul palco anche Mario Alessandrini (Primo Violino), Giampiero Caponi (Secondo Violino), Andrea Camerino (Viola), Matteo Cutilo (Violoncello) e Marco Turriziani (Contrabbasso). La voce narrante è di Valeria D'Onofrio.  Martedì 11 agosto sempre alle ore 21:00 si terrà la serata "Liricamente Napoli"  con le più belle canzoni classiche napoletane. Ad esibirsi il trio composto da Giada Sabellico (Soprano), Sandro Chiaretti (Voce e Chitarra) e Carlo Cannatelli (Voce e Fisarmonica).  #cultura Read the full article

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Gambero Rosso roadshow

                                           (Marco Sabellico & moi)

I was fascinated to be involved in the Gambero Rosso Roadshow in Sydney recently with senior editor of the leading Italian wine guide, Marco Sabellico. We co-hosted two masterclasses focusing on tre bicchieri (three wineglasses, the maximum) rated wines from the 2015 edition of the Gambero Rosso Italian Wines guide, the 29th edition of this ‘bible’. 

Most of the wines were very good to outstanding in my view, but several were, I thought, a bit ordinary – some of the lambruscos and glera (proseccos), as well as a Grave del Friuli pinot bianco. I suspected, and Marco confirmed, that the guide’s editors take the view that the best examples of any variety or appellation should be worthy of three glasses, even if (like the wines mentioned) they are quite simple wines. 

It would be fun to be a fly on the wall while the editors are arguing about the merits of wines – there are 70 tasters who blind-tasted 40,000 wines for the 2015 guide, whittling them down to 20,000 wines rated, from 2,402 producers. Tre bicchieri awards went to 423 wines, or a little over 1% of wines tasted. Highlights for me were two outstanding dry whites made from – wait for it – trebbiano! But this is trebbiano di Lugana, a special sub-variety whose local name is turbiana. 

The 2013 Provenza Ca’ Maiol Lugana Molin from near Lake Garda, Lombardy, was a beautiful, enchanting wine: floral/gardenia-like, spicy fragrance with a trace of honey introducing an intense, profound and complex palate. 95 points from me. (Importer: Euro Concepts) And the 2012 Ottella Lugana Molceo Riserva was rich, penetrating and powerful, with a scarcely visible touch of barrel fermentation (and some malolactic), flowers and honey again, and a surprising 14.5% alcohol – which mercifully didn’t show. 94 points. (Importer: Single Vineyard Sellers)

But my favourite white wine of the entire day was Cantina Nals Margreid (tastings) Sirmian Pinot Bianco 2013, from Alto Adige. From high altitude (400 metres), this showed a stony minerally character as well as restrained fruity notes, and was supremely delicate yet mouth-filling, with superb tightness and finesse. An earlier vintage was voted the Guide’s white wine of the year, and I’m not surprised. 96 points. ($56 retail. Importer: Combined Wines & Foods)

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Dr. Michael Lim The Travelling Gourmet TM with mio grande amico Luigi Salerno CEO Gambero Rosso & Marco Sabellico Editor in Chief 😃#thetravellinggourmet #gourmetsansfrontieres #gamberorosso #gamberorossosg #trebicchieri #topitalianwines https://www.instagram.com/p/BxHjASvHYuqHGGnB7lw6sYl80Sm1HNaDOIxEag0/?igshid=1tq0ssocdn0xx

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Prosecco Purists Baulk At Paris

Whether you agree with the Italians in their campaign to stop the world from appropriating the name prosecco, you would have to agree they have balls and sympathise with them after Paris Hilton was snapped posing with cans (yes, cans) of something labelled prosecco.

''It caused a heart-quake in Italy,'' says Marco Sabellico, co-editor of the Gambero Rosso guide to the wines of Italy, Vini d'Italia.

''In 2009, Italy changed the name of the grape to glera,'' Sabellico said during a seminar on Italian wines in Sydney recently.

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