I am a fan of joint ventures that bring interesting wine people together from different cultures with different ideas.
It was Luce's genesis, a Super Tuscan red involving two prominent wine families: the Old World Frescobaldi family of Florence and the New World upstart Mondavi family of California's Napa Valley. The place was Montalcino, the blend was a 50/50 mix of sangiovese and surprisingly merlot. The full story is next, as told by Lamberto Frescobaldi.
Anthony Gismondi is a Canadian wine journalist and one of North America's most influential voices in wine. For 30 years he has been the wine columnist for The Vancouver Sun. His twice-weekly column is distributed across Canada through Postmedia Network to 10 million readers. Anthony co-hosts the 20-year-strong BC Food & Wine Radio Show, which is broadcast in seven markets in B.C. and available online everywhere on iHeartRadio.ca. He launched Gismondionwine.com in 1997, attracting one million users a month from 114 countries. It continues to be a valuable resource of full tasting notes and intelligent wine stories and videos for the trade and consumers.
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