- Paperback: 528 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; illustrated edition edition (19 Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571195164
- ISBN-13: 978-0571195169
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,537,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The definitive guide to these wines, especially to the unique indigenous vine varieties of Italy - those grapes which make Italian wine so different and so inexhaustibly fascinating. Brunello to Zibbibo is a companion volume to Barolo to Valpolicella: The Wines of Northern Italy. It travels southerly, from the Sangiovese to the Alexandrian Muscat, off the Tunisian coast. The author, a wine writer and erstwhile specialist importer, looks at the grapes and the wines derived from them and introduces the principal producers. He lingers over Tuscany, and reveals much about the new wines emerging in the south, opening up a very different world of wine.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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In a nutshell,
By Rowena T "Winewomanandsong" (Bucks UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Brunello to Zibibbo: The Wines of Tuscany, Central and Southern Italy (Classic Wine Library) (Paperback)
The regions covered by this book are extensive with a huge variety of styles and quality. This book is a really good overview - which would be of great assistance to anyone taking a Diploma in wine or has an interest in particularly Italian wines. The book does cover a number of producers and is well written and clear. I would recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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All You Never Knew There Was To Know About The South,
By David B. Erickson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Brunello to Zibibbo: The Wines of Tuscany, Central and Southern Italy (Classic Wine Library) (Paperback)
Be warned: This is not for the casual reader; Belfrage goes into levels of detail heretofore unknown regarding Tuscany, Puglia, Sicily, and the rest of the South. He seems to have visited every producer in Italy, and to have traced (where possible) the origins of every grape he comes across--and he comes across quite a few that you won't find in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Wine or in Jancis Robinson's "Vines, Grapes & WInes." I have a special place in my heart for the unfortunate Nuragus, the most widely planted grape in Sardinia, of which Belfrage says "Nuragus probably has little or nothing to do with Trebbiano Toscano, as the ampelographer Cettolini would have us believe, but it does share an inability to rise above a certain fairly basic level of mediocrity winewise..." If you have to look up "ampelographer," you are probably going to find this book heavy going.
On the other hand, it's not like you need to know to enjoy the book. Belfrage is a good writer, a terrific reporter, and has the added benefit of being honest. He's got some commercial connections in Italy, and he's very straightforward about stating them. His overall take on the slowness of southern Italy to rally to the cause of quality over quantity is astutely observed: He has no love for Italian Bureaucracy, EU bureaucracy, or the Mafia. All three, he says, conspire to prevent progress. Anyway, if, like me, you find it is actually important to know that the wide variability in quality in Chianti is as much due to clonal selection as anything else, you'll greatly enjoy Mr. Belfrage's company. |
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