Even veteran wine consumers who enjoy wine on a daily or weekly basis have been known to avoid rosé wines for fear that they could be cloyingly sweet. Put a glass of rosé from Spain, Italy, or France in their hand and their tune changes quickly.
In 1888, his grandson Ferruccio Biondi-Santi-a veteran soldier who fought under Giuseppe Garibaldi during the Risorgimento-released the first "modern version" of Brunello di Montalcino, which was aged for over a decade in large wood barrels.
Tom Hyland, a wine writer and educator, is a veteran of 22 years in the wine industry. He writes about wine for several publications including the Quarterly Review of Wines, Decanter, The Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner.
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PfW HIGHLY RECOMMENDS veteran wine writer and passionate Pinotphile Greg Walter's Pinot Report, delivered as a downloadable PDF file, filled with articles and reviews devoted to wines from this grape.
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