Intellego started off in 2009 by Jurgen Gouws, a young winemaker from the #Swartland region of #SouthAfrica. Jurgen used to work for Craig Hawkins, the man behind El Bandito wines, who first taught him about making fresher wines. Gouws in order to achieve this style has prefers to work with bush vines, and a strict adherence to organic farming without [...]

Nero D’Avola, Tenuta Fenice We at #Tasted&Rated, have been traveling for more than 15 years to Barracuda in search of #wines with excellent prices for an outstanding quality, so we have decided to share our selection with all our readers. Every Wednesday we will post one wine that we believe will shock you for price and quality, making your trip [...]

Outstanding #winetasting @coyadubai by @african_eastern and #exportmanager par #chateaurauzansegla Andrean Gornard. The wines where @chateaurauzansegla #2005 #2008 & #2011: tree completely different vintages, with the ‘05 which was completely opened and ready to drink. Elegant with lots of secondary aromas of pencil, cedar, tobacco leaves. The ‘08 was much more floreal, fruitier and underbrush notes of mushrooms. While the ‘11 [...]

Brought this bottle of Libiamo “Field Blend” 2017 from my recent trip to #newzealand, after I discovered directly from the producer @jamesmillton who is an #artisanwinegrower, who in 1984, together with his wife Annie planted the very first #biodynamic #wineestate in the #southernhemisphere. The Milltons are endlessly committed to improvement, and without question should be credited as being one of [...]

Martin is the son of Anita and Hans, a very long established wine family based in the Neusiedlersee wine region of Austria. They master in local grape varieties such as Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt and they use biodynamic and organic approach to their wine growing. The Manila is a #skinfermented #grunerveltliner The grapes were destemmed and without being crushed, fermented in [...]