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Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wine. Show all posts
27 November 2023

Carno Polo: Ovvero delle Curiose Vicende di un altro Marco tra i Cinesi del XXI secolo (2023) su Amazon

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  From my honeymoon in Fenghuang, Hunan Il mio ultimo libro: una lettura per venire con me in Cina stando seduti a casa. O forse un'idea...
25 November 2020

Film review: Disrupting Wine (2020) by Johan Rimestad, ***

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Synopsys   Documentary about the founder of Vivino, Heini Zachariassen. Vivino has more than 43 million downloads worldwide and has its HQ i...
23 November 2020

Film review: A Year in Burgundy (2013), by David Kennard, ***

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Synopsis The film follows Martine Saunier seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France through the course of a full year, an...
19 November 2020

Film Review: A seat at the table (2019) by David Nash and Simon Mark-Brown , **

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Synopsis A New Zealand winemaking team enters the period known as Vintage when wine is made 24/7 for months on end. Sleepless nights, endles...
09 November 2020

Film review: Somm, into the Bottle (2015), by Jason Wise, ****

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Synopsis Sequel to the previous Somm movie of 2012 , this documentary takes the viewer into the private world of famed producers (who open ...
01 November 2020

Film review: The Barolo Boys (2014) by Paolo Casalis and Tiziano Gaia, ****

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The story of a group of Barolo producers, friends, colleagues and competitors at the same time, who broke with tradition to find their own c...
18 October 2020

Film review: Somm (2012) by Jason Wise, ****

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Review Four sommeliers attempt to pass the prestigious Master Sommelier exam, a test with one of the lowest pass rates in the world.  The do...
10 April 2020

Film review: Résistence naturelle (2014), By Jonathan Nossiter, **

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Synopsys Ten years after the landmark wine documentary Mondovino, filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter returns to the subject, documenting the dr...
03 April 2020

Film review: L'Esprit du vin (2011) by Olympe and Yvon Minvielle **

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Synopsys A film sponsored by Château Lagarette , a biodynamic producer in Bordeaux. A dozen or so biodynamic wine-growers express thei...
05 March 2020

Films about wine

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Films are listed in alphabetical order by title. This is a "living list", continuously updated when I manage to see new films. An ...
29 December 2019

Visita a Madeira

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Alcuni membri del Brussels Wine Club sono stati in visita a Madeira, e naturalmente ne hanno approfittato per andare a trovare alcuni p...
13 December 2019

Cantina Pereira d'Oliveiras, Funchal, Madeira, Portogallo

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Accogliente Luis Pereira d’Oliveiras nella cantina che la famiglia gestisce dal 1850.  Il padre Anibal, figura storica dell’isola, li ha las...
26 July 2018

Book review: The Judgement of Paris (2005) by G. Teber, *****

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Synopsis The Judgement of Paris was a blind tasting that pitched American wines from California against French reds from Bordeaux and wh...
27 June 2017

Visit to Stratus Vineyards, Ontario, Canada

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Jf and Marco at Stratus Today I visited a most remarkable vineyard at Niagara-on-the-Lake, in Ontario, Canada. At Stratus I was greeted by ...
11 January 2017

Tasting of Belgian wines

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Tastings of Belgian Wines, January 2017 Here are my tasting notes for a selection of Belgian wines I have tasted in December 2016 and Ja...