Our friend Stefano sent us a question about sparkling wines: how do i know if a sparkling is dry or sweet? Well, dear Sfefano, your question is interesting! There are many kinds of sparkling and getting to know them better it's a good thing to do. Here you are the names that you can find on the labels, with their amount of residual sugar: Pas dosé  < 1 Brut nature < 3 Extra brut < 6 Brut Extra dry 12-20 Dry o Secco 18-35 Demi sec o Abboccato 33-50 Dolce o Doux > 50 Pas-dosè and brut nature do not have residual...

Dear friends, we started the harvest in August, picking the grapes of Pinot Grigio, and now we are finishing the grapes in Valpolicella Doc area. Still not long to go to start picking the Garganega grapes. Today we want you to discover something more on the grapes that characterizes Soave Classico area. Among the many and refined wines produced in Verona, only in the Soave Classico area, on the hills made of tuffaceous soil (volcanic origin) and calcareous outcrops, you can find the perfect marriage between the environment and the vine variety for the production of a high quality...

Of course, we are talking about sparkling wines. Charmat and Champenoise method are the two sparkling wine production processes that guarantee high quality sparkling wines. Charmat method was invented at the end of the XIX century by Federico Martinotti, director of the Enology Institute in Asti, who introduced the fermentation in large pressure-resistant stainless steel vats. Though the patent is given to the French Charmat, who gave life to the machinery the way we know it today. This method, also known as tank fermentation, is used to make most sparkling wines. The base wine is...

I guess that at least once in your life you have uncorked a bottle of wine and you felt like something wrong with it. Maybe you said: "It's corked!", and probably you just had to trash the bottle, since when a wine is corky, it is undrinkable. But let's try to find out what this unpleasant inconvenience is due to. We should start saying that, understanding if a wine is "corked" or not, depends much from the olfactory perception of each of us. A corked wine does not mean a wine that has particles of cork floating around in the glass, but itmeans that a...