China gets a taste of world's best wine
China gets a taste of world's best wine
Apr 15, 2012 6
(ChinaDaily) - Bolgheri, a small village in the province of Livorno, Tuscany, Italy, was once a sleepy fishing village. Fast forward 40 to 50 years, it is now better known as the place producing one of the best red wines in Italy - the Ornellaia.
The village's wine is often compared to Bordeaux in France because of similarities in grape varietals.
Compared to France's Bordeaux red wines, which have about 100 years of history, Bolgheri's grapevines are just 30 years old on average - making its achievement rather impressive.
"In the 1960s, people experimented and discovered the area could produce good wines with traditional Bordeaux grape varietals," says Axel Heinz, winemaker and production director of the winery. Of French and German origin, he studied wine making in Bordeaux, before moving to Ornellaia in 2005.
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