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Hi Folks Well "Have I got NEWS for you" and also a first to ever be done in the UK. It all started when myself and Jeremy Palmer (from Barbados - @JeremyPalmer7 - Twitter) got into a conversation around Christmas time last year as he was seeing Rathfinny English sparkling wines on twitter and social …
Hi Again I have been sent some items recently that I will be reviewing over the next few weeks which include interesting wine bottles (new design & eco friendly), a fabulous wine preservation system and also a few goodies I already have at home. However, this week I received a press release from Michele Chiarlo, …
Hi again folks Just in case you missed the first part of my Campochiarenti blog here is the link. https://pietrovini.com/2019/06/09/tuscan-heaven-at-campochiarenti/ Well after a fabulous albeit very windy tour of the vineyard and the winery it was time to taste the wines. Well the first sample was not wine... It was olive oil. So a …
Hi Again Just over 30 miles south of Florence lies the beautiful hilltop town of San Gimignano, with majestic towers and stunning vistas across the Tuscan countryside. Six miles east you will find the beautiful tiny hamlet of Campochiarenti. The Campochiarenti history begins at the end of the 10th century when the church of Saint …
Hello again I have been looking forward to staying at the Rathfinny vineyard estate ever since I went to their launch, last April, of their Sussex Sparkling wine at the very glamorous venue of Somerset house in London. Here is my blog from last year. Rathfinny Launch After a few emails back and forth to …
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Hi again all, I wrote last year about the launch of Rathfinny's new English sparkling wines, from Sussex, England, you can check that out here. Rathfinny Blog. After a very successful initial launch their new vintage 2015 Blanc de Noirs & 2016 Rosé are about to be launched on the 1st of May and then …
Hi folks I'm currently reading a wine book.... Ok that's not very unusual!! However this is a thriller! It is an uncorrected proof sent to me so there may well be some changes (guessing only technical details) within the book but overall its a great read and a real page turner. Even if you are …
Hello again First blog for 2019. Labels.... I see and hear about people buying wines all of the time because of the labels. Its obviously a great marketing tool at a certain price point to distinguish one wine from another on extremely crowded and competitive supermarket shelves to make them stand out. Of course some …
Hi all, A few weeks ago I was extremely privileged to be invited to the prestigious Dorchester Hotel in Mayfair, London for a very special wine tasting. A tasting to celebrate the release of the 2015 Vérité wines. VÉRITÉ & CARDINALE Well, this was not going to be any old wine tasting. Vérité & Cardinale …
Hello again, A couple of months ago I was wandering around the London wine fair, when I bumped into Rosamund Barton a director of the food and wine PR agency R&R Teamwork. She asked had I heard of winebuyers.com, as they have just started the PR for them, and if I had a couple of …
