Report from - Gambero Rosso, Tre Bicchieri tasting ... June 5, 2013
27 Aug 2013- Details
- Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
Promised as the "highlight of your tasting year" and they might just have been correct. I have never seen such a concentration of wines that were of such consistent high quality (and delicious to boot) all in one room. But let's put this into perspective: "The Gambero Rosso Guide to Italian Wine is the foremost resource for lovers of Italian wine" ... the 'Tre Bicchieri' designation has a rather high distinction: "for the 2013 edition, reviewers tasted 45,000 wines, of which 20,000 were included in the publication. Of all wines tasted fewer than 400, or less than 1%, received the rarefied Tre Bicchieri rating" ... so the wines in the room had best be of high quality. There were close to 100 wineries in attendance each with at least one wine to show off - so as you can see it was a daunting task, and I had but 3 hours to do it in. So without further ado I present my list of 39 wines that scored three-and-a-half-plus stars or more (presented by region) ... I tried to taste all the wines in the room, though I might have missed a few along the way - and to pare it down to these 41 was a challenge.
(Check out the reviews of all 39 wines - and their pictures)
