Every year, Wine Spectator selects a top 100 of Italian wines among those tasted over the past 12 months, basing its ranking on the quality, value, availability and attention attracted.
And once again, in 2016, Bricco dell’Uccellone di Braida is on the list, the only Barbera among lots of Barolo from Piedmont. The vintage chosen is 2010.
BRAIDA di Giacomo Bologna will be at ProWein in Düsseldorf on the 13th, 14th and 15th of March 2016, together with VIP WEINE in Pavilion 16 stand H70-G77.
Italy is famous in the wine world for its many different territories and microclimates, capable of creating numerous autochthonous grape varieties, each with its own identity. Braida di Bologna Giacomo is one of the wineries that has been selected for the 2016 edition of Opera Wine, on Saturday, the 9th of April in Verona.
Il giornalista Bruce Sanderson ha scelto l’annata 2010 del Bricco dell’Uccellone.
Un anno di incontri, di viaggi, di amici. Di idee, di feste, di fotografie, di calici tra le dita.
Braida cellars and offices will be closed for Christmas holidays from 2015 December 23th to 2016 January 6th. Cheerful holiday wishes to all of you !
For the twentieth edition of the event, which is going to be held on Wednesday the 9th of March at the Hotel Kronenschlösschen in Eltville-Hattenheim, Montebruna Barbera d’Asti docg 2014 and Bricco dell’Uccellone Barbera d’Asti docg 2013 Braida will be served during the gala dinner prepared by chef Giovanni D’Amato of the Rigoletto di Reggiolo (Reggio Emilia).
E’ ormai terminata la vendemmia 2015: un momento che da sempre sa caricare di energia sorprendendo e seppur faticoso non smette di essere una festa.
In the Grand Wine Bar of the Fair – 10 October / 15 November.
(…) There are also the Barbera specialists who have staked their reputation on the grape and don’t make Barolo at all. The most famous of these producers would be the late Giacomo Bologna of Braida winery in Asti, who is credited with making the first “serious” Barbera in the 1980s, when he created Bricco dell’Uccellone.…
from YOOPRESS “Daily news from the world of wine”
I was geeked to ask Maurizio (Zanella) about the now legendary trip he made with Luigi Veronelli to California in 1981: Veronelli wrote 1982, but Maurizio told me 1981 last night).
Brachetto d’Acqui Braida in the News (ABC News Online and JustLuxe)
Wine review: 2011 Braida Montebruna Barbera d’Asti