Mitolo is a partnership between the Mitolo family and the famed winemaker Ben Glaetzer.   He relies on traditional techniques with a modern flair.

Mitolo
G.A.M.
Shiraz 2007
$35.99
Tanzer 91 “Inky violet color. Seductively perfumed scents of blackberry, mulberry, candied plum and smoky Indian spices. Ripe, fleshy and gently sweet, offering assertive dark berry and anise flavors and slow-building tannins. Repeats the anise and mulberry notes on the long, sappy, alluringly spicy, peppery finish. This wine is already showing very good complexity”
Parker 91 “Purple-colored, it offers an alluring bouquet of spice box, black cherry, blueberry, and a hint of chocolate. This leads to a concentrated, ripe, layered wine with excellent depth and length. Already complex, it will continue to evolve with another several years of cellaring. Drink it from 2011 to 2020.”

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Dramatic Development to Brunello Election

Source: TWI
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Jun 2nd

In a bid to save traditional Brunello, winemaker Fabrizio Bindocci speaks out on the eve of the Brunello election.

In an unexpected and daring move, venerated winemaker Fabrizio Bindocci, a native of Montalcino and director of the historic estate Tenuta Il Poggione, has publicly declared his bid for the presidency of the Brunello di Montalcino consortium. Another native candidate, front-runner Donatella Cinelli Colombini, of the historic Cinelli Colombini winery, surprised her colleagues yesterday when she told them she was taking herself out of the running and lending her support to Piedmont-born enologist Ezio Rivella. In an open letter sent to and published by Italy’s leading wine blogger Franco Ziliani, Bindocci has publicly declared his candidacy for the first time and has asked his fellow council members for their support (he had previously given his endorsement to Cinelli before her unexpected dropping out of the race).

Bindocci has published an English-language version of the letter on his son’s blog, Montalcino Report (MontalcinoReport.com): \http://bit.ly/aAtiFR

Many fear that, if elected consortium president, Rivella will change appellation regulations to allow producers to add grapes other than the indigenous Sangiovese grape of Tuscany to Brunello di Montalcino. In 2007, Italian authorities forced some of the largest producers of Brunello to declassify millions of liters of wine allegedly containing grapes other than Sangiovese (appellation rules call for the wine to made with 100% Sangiovese grapes).

Pelican Eggs Stained with Brown Sludge from the Gulf Oil Spill (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

British Petroleum rep Randy Prescott: “ Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” Here’s Randy’s office phone number: (713) 323-4093 and his email (randy.prescott@bp.com). Give him a call or shoot him an email! BP is not the only place to buy gas!

This is one of the most unusual, phenomenally complex, beautifully aromatic dry white wines I have ever tasted. Incredible! It also used to be $35. Now it’s $19.99 and there’s not excuse for not trying it out! You will come back for more.

Also, this winery is owned by the genius behind Domaine Huet, a killer Vouvray producer in the Loire.

“An extraordinary dry white wine of uncommon originality”

Kiralyudvar
Tokaji Sec 2006
Hungary
$19.99

Here’s what people are saying about the Kiralyadar Dry Tokaji:

“I first tried the 2006 dry white from Kiralyudvar, a winery that I knew made wonderful sweet wine. It was extraordinary, with a gorgeous aroma of herbs and flowers, and the luscious texture that comes from fermentation in oak barrels. The wine was absolutely dry and balanced, with the waxy, lanolin quality that I find so alluring in good white Bordeaux”. – New York Times

“A blend of 70% of Furmint and the rest of Harsvelu, harvested within 3 different vineyards of the estate. The goal there is to harvest grapes not affected by botrytis, witch is not an easy thing in the Tokay appellation. The result is a stunning white wine with a lot going on. With the texture of a Chardonnay and aromatics just as complex as any very well made german riesling, there is just everything that a white wine lover wants in this bottle”. -the wine digger.com.

“Királyudvar Tokaji Sec 2006. A new winery, Királyudvar was created by American Anthony Hwang in 1997. (He is also the majority owner of Domaine Huët in Vouvray.) In this brief time, it has emerged as one of Tokaj’s finest producers. The barrel-fermented and oak-aged dry Tokaji (six months in 500-liter Hungarian oak barrels) delivers scents of citrus, hay and stones. It’s an extraordinary dry white wine of uncommon originality. And it’s just 12.5 percent alcohol, by the way”. – Matt Kramer, Wine Spectator. Top Six Wines of the Year.
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Decero wines are grown at an altitude of 3500 feet in the highlands of Argentina. They are very meticulous in both growing and production and their winemaker Marcos Fernandez is complemented by their consultant, Paul Hobbs.

The Remolinos Vineyards received their name from the tiny whirlwinds that are kicked up in the vineyards. This keeps the grapes in perfect condition throughout the growing season.

Decero
Cabernet Sauvignon 2008
Remolinos Vineyard
Mendoza, Argentina
$19.99
WS 90 “Rock-solid, with a juicy, muscular core of blackberry, black currant and fig fruit pushed by bacony toast and a lush, hoisin sauce-tinged finish. Has heft, but balanced too. Drink now through 2011.”

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