Col D'Orcia

Col D’Orcia

For many years I’m following the winery Col D’Orcia and am a great fan of their wines.

Because I organised a wine tasting of  Brunello’s, the time was right to taste again some wines of Col D’Orcia in a separate tasting. Of course, without any doubt,  the tasting was blind.

Col D’Orcia is historically very important in Montalcino. One can find records of they’re existence back to 1890 where the Franceschi family acquired the property, then known as Fattoria di Sant’Angelo in Colle. Already in 1933 they presented their Brunello in one of the early trade fair in Siena.

Veneto - Lombardia

Thursday 6th of September.

Looking forward to this trip, from Thursday the 6^th till Sunday the 9^th of September, to mainly the Veneto region, the start of it was certainly horror.

Beginning by having to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning, a 1 and 1/2 hour trip to the airport, flying, arriving in Milan Malpensa at 10:15 and having to wait an 1 hour for my colleagues coming from the Netherlands. Then travelling by bus for 2 and 1/2 hours to the hotel in ‘San Pietro In Cariano’, where we had lunch before getting to our room at 4 PM… A bit too much to start this trip.

However, from that point forward the trip went from marvellous to ….

Thank you Federdoc, but next time, please try to organise everything better, starting from choosing the  airport to the travelling distance between the winegrowers.

New season

Lucky for me (us) the new tasting-season has began.
Soon you will be able to read about my first trip in this new season to the Veneto and Lombardia.

Some time later we taste some Brunello's

See you soon