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Wines and ratings

Andrea D'Ercole — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:02:42 GMT

I constantly receive plenty of emails from wine sellers, I guess the moment someone notices that I import and sell wine, they see me as a potential buyer and therefore add my name to their mailing list and I receive emails from all over the world, not only UK based businesses.

What Dispatches has not told you about the wine industry

Andrea D'Ercole — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:21:59 GMT

Last night, like many other people, I watched Dispatches on Channel 4 and if before watching it I thought that they would have brought some truth and light about the wine industry, at the end of the program I realised that they only damaged a few producers and brands.

Wines of the world: Day 3 Italian

Andrea D'Ercole — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:59:58 GMT

Yesterday I went to see one of my clients and he showed me the list of the best Italian wines according to Tim Atkin. The Guardian and The Observer are publishing a “wines of the world” guide featuring a selection of wines for all major countries that Tim chose according “this year performance at the International wine challenge”.

2008 vintage: forecasts

Andrea D'Ercole — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:36:48 GMT

Here we are, once again, is harvesting time. To be completely honest, the harvest has started around the 15th of August for the white wines in the southern regions whilst the red wines and the northern regions are starting now and will finish toward the end of September

Wine Spectator opens a corked bottle….

Andrea D'Ercole — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:12:52 GMT

Wine spectator recently gave the Excellence award to an italian restaurant that does not exist. Robin Goldstein, wine critic, in an attempt to prove the lack of any foundation behind many food and wine awards, entered to the Wine Spectator award of excellence a restaurant that does not exist and won.