St Thomas Aquinas wrote that ‘sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine’. In these turbulent times, Giovanni Morelli agrees. In this column, I have always tried to pick wines that are interesting and relatively inexpensive. It seems that with all the talk of recession, depression and general gloom, [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that even experts can be fooled when it comes to recognising true quality, and this applies to wine as much as other areas Now that the festivities are over and all the New Year’s resolutions have been made (or broken), it’s time to look back at the wines we drank in 2008. [...]
Giovanni Morelli recommends a selection of fine wines to match what is undoubtedly the biggest and most important meal of the year — the gut-busting feast that we all enjoy on Christmas Day. The best kind of wine is that which is pleasant to him that drinks it.” – Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historiae. One [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that sales of Argentinean wines are growing, as the quality of that country’s wines has greatly improved over the last decade. Probably the most hated word in the English language at present is ‘regulator’. In this instance, it is not because the banks were over-regulated, but precisely the opposite. If the regulator [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes that we may need to reconsider our views on ‘bottling’ wine in cardboard containers and also looks at reasons why Prosecco has grown in popularity in recent years. I suppose we are all creatures of habit, to a greater or lesser degree. Wine bottles have been around for so long that we [...]
Giovanni Morelli talked to wine-makers in Italy this summer and sent us this from his Italian idyll in August. Sitting on the terrace watching a fat lizard lazily sunning himself, I know that if I make the slightest move, he will scuttle quickly under a stone or into a crack in the rocks. I’m not [...]
Giovanni Morelli gives a few tips on the best bargains in wine for summer and discusses the ongoing study of resveratrol for potential medical uses. I’m not sure if the final ‘Contract’ has been signed, but for those who have extended their practice to Dublin 4 or other such areas in Ireland, read on! The [...]
Giovanni Morelli recalls the famous blind-tasting of 1976 when Californian wines came into their own. Robert Mondavi, one of the great icons of modern wine making died on May 16, at the ripe old age of 94. Mondavi’s family emigrated from Italy and his vineyard was the first to open in Napa valley when prohibition [...]
Giovanni Morelli writes about the importance of mood, food and context in our appreciation of wine and alerts us to some good-value bottles for summer that are on offer at the moment. It’s nice to know that the wine correspondent of the International Herald Tribune, Eric Asimov, agrees with my claim in the 25 April [...]
Giovanni Morelli on the importance of having a keen nose when tasting wine and why the world’s best wine tasters insure their noses for outrageous sums of money It is interesting to speculate on what makes one have an opinion or a taste. From the point of view of wine-tasting, we are bound by two [...]
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