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Mondovino: an excellent wine documentary

If you really love wine and what behind the bottle, you can’t miss this documentary. Yesterday looking into the collection of dvd, try to make a little order but after 5 minutes of work I find this movie, and with and excuse to stop tiding up, I watched again. Now I remember why I don’t read Robert Parker anymore.

Mondovino it’s a travel around the world with meeting of famous brand and unknown farmer, and try to explain what’s behind a bottle of Wine. There is a poetry behind every bottle that unfortunately many people are not able to play. And especially now were in the world the dispute between the bio, natural wines and the others start to be more and more intensive.

Strongly suggested.

Brunello di Montalcino – Old School Vs New School

We often hear about traditional Brunello and modern Brunello di Montalcino, but what that means?

Before the advent of the various “Robert Parker”  which in my personal opinion loves wine ready to drink in relative haste, there was no modern Brunello at all, but  the new and growing market demand during the time have determinate its born. I must admit that I consider the modern Brunello still good, sometimes very good, even if more commercial. I have anyway to admit that it was the birth of a commercial product, as often happens, that determined the success of Brunello in the world. In fact it was impossible to think that a Brunello di Montalcino Biondi Santi or Soldera, old school, was for everyone. Few bottles, for sure excellent in quality, but with a prohibitive price, can certainly gain a large niche, but not conquer the public. For your information regarding prices we are around the $ 400 minimum for a Biondi Santi and $ 200 for a Soldera, if and only if you do not go to old vintages.

But what are the main differences between the traditional Brunello and the Modern one? Well first of all the barrels. is impossible to find a traditional Brunello is aged in barriques, instead of the barriques are generally preferred the large oaks barrels, while a modern refined in small barrels of 225 liters, precisely the barriques, although for some excellent wines, sometimes tend to cover a little taste of the wine with the taste of vanilla, which sometimes also covers defects.

Moreover the color of the modern Brunello is generally darker and concentrated, meanwhile a traditional Brunello has a red tending to garnet. Same thing on the nose, the first is harder and impact, while the second have different scents more various and refined.

Obviously I’m not here to say which one is the best, it depends on your tastes, but certainly I think it proper to make a distinction because these two types, which have the same name but are certainly very different wines.

Earlier I mentioned the fact that the modern Brunello  has made the fortune abroad, in reality this is not exactly true, A Brunello Biondi Santi had been drunk at the wedding of Elizabeth of England and Duke of Edinburgh as long ago as 1947, tnato for example, but certainly in cellars such as Banfi is credited with bringing the production of Brunello at most important numbers that have allowed many enthusiasts, from the Americans to over the world, to know and appreciate the qualities of this extraordinary wine, which, in both versions, modern or traditional, will certainly be able to give great emotions.

So which Brunello are you?

Cheers