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A Night to remember with Lodovico Antinori
Our last big dinner of 2011 was a cracker, no older vintages here as this is a new project but one set for great things I think. The actual launch was last year at Mossiman’s so this year was a lower key and focussed dinner here at C&B’s HQ. We...
Read More Roberto Conterno – 2 days, 2 dinners
On Wednesday night last week I was delighted to host a dinner at Franco's in Jermyn Street - Roberto Conterno of Cantina Giacomo Conterno and his assistant Lauren were in town for this and another dinner (see below). It was a select bunch of hardened Barolo fans. We started with...
Read More Tenuta di Trinoro In The Press
Tenuta di Trinoro 2009 In the Press
Reviewed by Antonio Galloni, eRobertParker.com
“Andrea Franchetti’s 2009s are stellar. The wines show gorgeous, expressive fruit with less of the extreme ripeness and heaviness of past years. In most years Franchetti picks extremely late, but in 2009 the vines reached full phenolic ripeness earlier than...
Read More Corney & Barrow In the Press
The top 10 at Corney & Barrow
18 Aug 2011 by Richard Hemming, JancisRobinson.com
Corney & Barrow very kindly offered subscribers to this site some free tickets to their summer tasting in June. They didn't come without a catch, however, since I asked the lucky few to rank and score their top...
Read More Santini at the Top of his Game
After just a couple of days in the company, I found myself invited into the C & B tasting room to sample a range of wines from Enrico Santini. With a particular interest in Italian wines, this was a great opportunity to develop that passion as well as dip my...
Read More Exclusive Interview with Lodovico Antinori
Click below to see an exclusive interview with Lodovico Antinori, taken at the C&B launch of Tenuta di Biserno:
Source: Decanter...
Read More The World Wide Launch of Lodovico Antinori’s new project: Tenuta di Biserno (Exclusive to Corney & Barrow)
It is relatively rare to witness such excitement about Italian Wine at HQ, but then, this is no ordinary Italian Wine. This is Tenuta di Biserno, the new Tuscan estate from Lodovico Antinori. Lodovico is famed for his vinous triumphs Ornellaia and Masseto – the latter of which nestled itself...
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