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Read and reread: Enrico Bernardo and the best wines of the Mediterranean. The second element

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The Cradle and the origins Wine of this part of the Mediterranean and the other, shaken by the revolutionary movements that are marking the last few weeks and let inevitably the sign in the near future. And then I back up this teaching tool that scans 360 degrees in the civilization of wine even where civilization and civilization have been, they are now and will be increasingly understood in different ways.

Bernardo has traveled in 13 countries and this tells us, from its historical experience and his investiture as the best sommelier in the world, first in school and impersonal way, falling in result in the most interesting part practice what are the excellences that he met in these countries so close yet so far. Wines of the 4000 surveyed at the end he has selected a thousand. a bit surprising 'the inclusion of areas that are not exactly Mediterranean, namely the Piedmont and the northern Rhone Valley, where obviously the highest ratings out there, but it seems that the absolute highest quality of Italian wine stop to Tuscany with the exception of Pantelleria. The scene is dominated north of the southern Rhone Valley, and in detail by the name of Chateauneuf du Pape. Well even though Spain where excellence is concentrated further south, in Andalusia for its great sweet wines or dry, rather than in Catalonia, on the other well-represented with its great red wines. Pleasant surprises from Greece, apparently considerable the fourth largest area in terms of quality. Pearls from Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. Of the latter two islands you can see little or nothing in our area, which is a pity he can not ascertain with relative ease the characteristics of these products. The lace brief but complete technical tasting deal then these 13 countries: Italy, France, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Malta, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. A good book if understood as an information source which invite niche to try different things from which we are accustomed to drink normally in Italy, while the general plan information as possible to read endlessly replicated in dozens of other works. Thus taking greater account of the first aspect should strive to find things more original and less well-known in Italy and thus broaden their horizons.

Enrico Bernardo

the best wines of the Mediterranean

Mondadori

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