Promised as the “highlight of your tasting year” and they might just have been correct. I have never seen such a concentration of wines that were of such consistent high quality (and delicious to boot) all in one room. But let’s put this into perspective: “The Gambero Rosso Guide to Italian Wine is the foremost resource for lovers of Italian wine” … the ‘Tre Bicchieri’ designation has a rather high distinction: “for the 2013 edition, reviewers tasted 45,000 wines, of which 20,000 were included in the publication. Of all wines tasted fewer than 400, or less than 1%, received the rarefied Tre Bicchieri rating” … so the wines in the room had best be of high quality. There were close to 100 wineries in attendance each with at least one wine to show off – so as you can see it was a daunting task, and I had but 3 hours to do it in. So without further ado I present my list of 39 wines that scored three-and-a-half-plus stars or more (presented by region) … I tried to taste all the wines in the room, though I might have missed a few along the way – and to pare it down to these 41 was a challenge.
(Check out the reviews of all 39 wines – and their pictures)