Week 6: Solatione Wine Selection
This week… This week, we’re looking at the effect of climate change on the vines and giving you the chance to buy a special Solatione wine selection available (at a discount) exclusively to Uncork Italy members. Watch the Video Luca interviews Fabio in the Solatione vineyard. Click the button below to watch! Uncork Italy 6: Solatione Part 2: Climate Change in the Vineyard from Uncork Italy on Vimeo. Buy Solatione Wine By clicking this button below you’ll see…
Week 5: Sun, Frost & Solatione
This Week… We’re introducing our next winemaker in the north of Chianti Classico from a tiny winery isolated in the hills run by a brother and sister team. Their father fought his parents to buy the land and they are fighting climate change to continue his legacy. Watch the Video Watch our interview with Francesca & Fabio of Solatione winery. Password: “TUSCANY” (all caps). Uncork Italy 5: Sun, Frost & Family at Solatione Winery from Uncork Italy on…
Week 4: Fietri Tasting And Italian Wine Labels
This Week… We’re finally drinking some wine! In our video, Luca, Lauren & Luca are tasting one of our favourite Fietri wines and we’re giving you the chance to buy them directly from Fietri with our discounted Uncork Italy prices! Then we explain a teeny bit about Italian wine labels and why sometimes they really don’t matter.To catch up on previous newsletters, click here (password as always is TUSCANY). Watch the Video Lauren, Luca & Luca up close and personal trying…
Week 3: War & Sexual Confusion in the Vineyard
Welcome to week 3! Missed the first weeks? Click here to catch up. Password is always: TUSCANY (all caps). This week we start to answer the question of what makes a wine “organic.” The answer lies in breeding an army of enemies against vine parasites, setting up spies around the vineyard and subjecting local insects to something called “sexual confusion.” I guess, all’s fair in love and wine. Watch the Video And learn about some organic/biological wine methods. As usual the…
Week 2: Dirt, the Bible & The Chicken Brothers
This week we’re getting our hands dirty (haha) and talking about territory: the actual dirt and rocks that make up the soil of Chianti Classico AND numerous battles over the territory. We’re going to talk about Noah getting drunk in Tuscany (yes, you read that correctly), how Medici dictators influenced Chianti forever, and how two guys literally named “The Chicken Brothers” created a huge mess for the Chianti Classico Consortium.
Week 1: Chianti Classico & Fietri
Ciao a tutti and welcome to Uncork Italy – the newsletter dedicated to Italian wine. We are Lauren, Luca & Luca, one Californian and two Tuscans living in Italy who are passionate about Italian wine (with varying sommelier certifications between us). We’re going on a journey through Italy to learn as much as we can about Italy’s wine Renaissance and we’re taking you with us!