Friday, 15 May 2015

A Castello Banfi tasting


I went to a tasting of wines from Castello Banfi yesterday. Initially I thought it was a tasting of the 2010 reds (which I of course tasted) but the tasting covered many more wines in the Banfi range than that. Four sparklers (of which two are sweet), some half a dozen whites and maybe a dozen reds (including 2 single vineyard Brunellos from 2010) were presented.I was more used to thinking of Banfi as a Tuscan concern, but know that they have vineyards in Piedmont, A Venezia Pinot Grigio showed that they have diversified further afield. The one wine I did not expect to see, amongst the Chiantis, Brunellos, Super-Tuscans was a varietal Albarossa. I am sure I had tasted this before, but definitely not as a varietal. This needs another entry to present.

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