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I've written about how 90 points can change your life
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Posted on 07/28/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted on 07/27/2009 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Grrrr! Here's what wasn't so clear:
We searched high and low for these new producers, always aware of the basic
requirement to source
good wine, full of regional and varietal character and at
an attractive price.
In these hard economic times, it's why the start-up (or up-start)
Domenico Selections has begun its life
prospering while others are taking a hit.
By the way, it's no accident that we are still weighted toward the South.
Campania and Basilicata, for example, still offer relatively low prices next to
Tuscany and Piedmont, and their wines are not only better-
priced, they're far more typical of their terroirs that many of the
"blasonati" (ballyhooed) wines of the
northerly regions.
Whatevz. Yes, Typepad isn't the ideal blogging platform. But Wordpress -- really??
Posted on 07/25/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
It's up! The expanded Domenico Selections website!
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PRODUCERS FROM PIEDMONT
Cascina Gilli
PRODUCERS FROM VENETO
I Stefanini
Villa Monteleone
PRODUCERS FROM TUSCANY
Piandibugnano
Schiaccionaia
PRODUCERS FROM ABRUZZO
Costantini
PRODUCERS FROM PUGLIA
Mazzone
PRODUCERS FROM CAMPANIA
Angelarosa
Boccella
Mustilli
Reale
Terra Di Vento
PRODUCERS FROM BASILICATA
Musto-Carmelitano
We searched high and low for these new producers, always aware of the basic requirement to source
good wine, full of regional and varietal character and at an attractive price.
In these hard economic times, it's why the start-up (or up-start) Domenico Selections has begun its life
prospering while others are taking a hit.
By the way, it's no accident that we are still weighted toward the South. Campania and Basilicata,
for example, still offer relatively low prices next to Tuscany and Piedmont, and their wines are not only better-
priced, they're far more typical of their terroirs that many of the "blasonati" (ballyhooed) wines of the
northerly regions.
Posted on 07/25/2009 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Posted on 07/22/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Domenico Selections is still looking for sales people, this time for coverage of all of Long Island (including Queens and Brooklyn), and/or Westchester and other Hudson Valley counties.
Posted on 07/22/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
While we await the updates to the expanded Domenico Selections site, I thought it would be both informative and pleasant to dip into the spiffy new site of Azienda Agricola Reale Andrea -- Reale, for short -- which is available in Italian and what I assume to be a machine-translated English.
Posted on 07/22/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I am a scemo.*
Posted on 07/19/2009 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
This is a compliment, of course
Posted on 07/18/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Just a quick note to tell you that we will see the expansion of our portfolio reflected on the Domenico Selections web site in a week or so. Our little map of Italian regions will be enhanced by the addition of Basilicata, Abruzzo and Piemonte. We'll also be adding producers in Veneto and Campania.
Posted on 07/18/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Adone del Negro, 47, of Torano Nuovo an Controguerra in northern Abruzzo, was killed in a tractor accident as he worked in his vineyards last evening. According to a report in a local news site, it is believed that the brake of the tractor hadn't engaged; it rolled over him, crushing him instantly. Del Negro leaves behind his wife, Stefania Pepe of the Emidio Pepe winemaking family, and two small children, including a newborn.
Posted on 07/17/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You hear about it, but you don't quite believe it until it happens to you.
Posted on 07/14/2009 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Today Wine Spectator posted to its web site the wine-review scores for the August 31 edition. I Stefanini, our Soave producer, broke the 90-point barrier for Domenico Selections. We are about to re-re-order. We are pleased -- thrilled, in fact.
For it is a necessary thing that the wines you import earn a 90+ from one of the major dispensers of such grace. It is indeed a gratifying form of validation for the producer and his/her representatives (importer, distributors, sales folks, retailers, etc., etc.)
Posted on 07/12/2009 | Permalink | Comments (7) | TrackBack (0)
We heard through the grapevine that some very pleasing scores will be published about a few of our wines next week.
Posted on 07/10/2009 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
After waiting about a month since the shipment arrived from Livorno, we're taking out our new wines today. They're drinking well, over travel shock, and we think they're going to go over very well. Jeff, who is working like a locomotive to get appointments to taste these wines, has lined up a pretty interested group of retailers.
Posted on 07/09/2009 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Ladies and germs, it has come to our attention repeatedly and, if I may editorialize for a mo, OFTEN that people who press the CONTACT SO-AND-SO AT DOMENICO SELECTIONS button in a section called, oddly enough, CONTACT, simply hit said button and send a dead email to us.
Posted on 07/08/2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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