Vinopolis Tuesday Telegraph 12-12-17
Pian dell’Orino’s Brilliant Brunello; Clouet for the Holidays; German Riesling End of Bin Sales; Rinaldi’s Incredible 2013 Barolo Crus; Karthauserhof’s Lean Mean Riesling
Soldera. Biondi Santi. The two giants of Brunello. Pretty soon it looks like we might be able to add Pian dell’Orino to that list. Brunello insiders have known about the wines for several years now, but the secret seems to be getting out. We don’t get a lot of these wines, but we have enough to offer them today and we’re really excited to share them with you.
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The Next Legendary Brunello Producer
Pian dell’Orino’s Monumental 2011
Soldera. Biondi Santi. The two giants of Brunello. Pretty soon it looks like we might be able to add Pian dell’Orino to that list. Brunello insiders have known about the wines for several years now, but the secret seems to be getting out. We don’t get a lot of these wines, but we have enough to offer them today and we’re really excited to share them with you.
Piano dell’Orino combines two things that make great wine estates: good land and obsessive ownership. Caroline Pobitzer and Jan Hendrik Erbach, the owners and driving force behind these wines, have a take-no-prisoners approach to ensure that they make the finest wines in Brunello.
2014 is an excellent year to buy Rene Rostaing’s Ampodium Cote Rotie, and not just because we’ve dropped the price on it to make it an even better deal.
Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list always inspires a certain amount of fanaticism—these are the wines that most excited the editors and writers at the most widely read American wine publication, so it makes sense that a certain amount of hype gets thrown into the mix.