Italian Wines 2001 (Itlaina Wines, 2001)

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Italian Wines 2001 (Itlaina Wines, 2001)
Customer Review: Italian Wines 2000

This book is great if you LOVE Italian wines. The reviews are more vinyard specific and little information beyond a simple 1-3 glasses rating at the bottom of the page is provided on the individual wines. However, this book is very thorough and I have found wines mentioned in this book and that I can find nowhere else.

Customer Review: It takes one to know one

I first discovered Gambero Rosso several years ago when I began getting interested in Italian wines and before it was available in English. As far as I'm concerned it is the definitive guide to one of the most diverse wine growing countries of the world, and in my opinion, the place where the most significant strides in quality are being attained at every level.

I'm not going to openly disrespect the more popular and better known sources for international wine reviews, but again, as far as I'm concerned, the Gambero Rosso simply blows away the competition when it comes to consistently identifying and rating the best Italian producers and their wines. Over several years, I have never had a bottle recommended by Gambero that I have not enjoyed or found true to the review. I only wish more Gambero rated wines were widely available in the US!

The Gambero is not without its faults, however. The reviews of the wines are breezy and tasting notes often given over to a certain poetic license which I consider to be part of its charm. The book is organized by region. Within the region it's not alphabetical by producer as you would expect, but by town. Unless you are a fanatical student of Italian geography and know where all the producers live, there is no practical way to use the book without relying on the indexes of wines and producers. Even then, unless you have a perfect match for the data on the wine you're looking up, it can sometimes by hard to find what you want. Throw in quirky typos like misplacing Umbria in the table of contents by 50 pages, and you can start to get a little frustrated. Additionally, the 2000 edition closed September 30, 1999 and many of the incredibly exciting Super Tuscans and Piedmontese wines from the '97 vintage that are just reaching American stores didn't make it in.

But relax. Sit back. Pour yourself another glass. This is Italy after all and life's too short to worry so.

The idiosyncratic scoring system of 1-3 "glasses" at first may seem limiting to Americans used to the 100 point must system (sorry, that's a bad pun), but it's a heckuva lot less arbitrary and in the end a more satisfying and consistent approach. Just last weekend, for example, I was fortunate to have a bottle of the 1997 Montiano from Falesco, a killer merlot about which the Gambero goes bonkers and gives its highest 3 glass rating.

Reading the Gambero Rosso is like having a conversation about wine with an extremely knowledgeable Italian friend, who simply can't contain his enthusiasm for the subject.