Awsome Winemaker or War Criminal, You Decide!

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>>Love the reference to Columella. You know, while Rome was being overcome by big "corporate" wine entities, such as the one that killed off Falernum, Columella was trying to convince Roman farmers that the small vintner could make a lot of money--geez, does that sound like somewhere on earth today!<<

One of our heroes, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo God Eduardo Valentini, says he owns every book ever writtn in a European language on viticulture and oenology and "no one has improved on Columella". He may be right: Last night we poured a wine made in Calabria out of air dried Nurello and Noceto fermented in concrete tanks and aged for five years in giant unsanitary Chestnut casks at a cantina so retro they are in denial about being Italians (the bottles are labled "i Vini di Magna Grecia", "the wines of Greater Greece"!!!) and it was the hands down crowd favorite when tasted alongside a serious Barbaresco and a well regarded Super Tuscan.

Back to the future, Roberto