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6 March 2016
Here at THENATIVEGRAPES we’ve got plenty more to learn about the majesty of NEBBIOLO and one of its greatest manifestations, BAROLO. So where better to clear the fog and celebrate the legend than face to face with a few of these garnet gems. Of course, it’s not something that happens every week. Commercial reality sees to that ;-)
17 February 2016
No surprise that our native grape adventures continue to bring us back to Italy’s Piemonte.
After all it is a grape paradise for the ‘Lost & Found’. And man, we enjoyed the bite of a seriously happenin’ Great White.
10 February 2016
When is a Grechetto not a Grechetto ? So there we were, out and about, spinning our wheels, when we chanced upon an Umbrian Grechetto. Not having tasted a 100% varietal of this native Italian white, we thought let’s give it a blast. Afterall, it’s what adventurous native grape people do, right ?
2 February 2016
Native to northern Puglia, this ancient bloom dusted, dark blue/black grape, with its relatively compact bunches of thick-skinned, round berries, has for centuries been more associated with being a ‘BLENDER’ than with ‘100%’ varietals.