Comments on: Destroyed: six complete vintages of Soldera http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/ wine talk that goes down easy Fri, 24 May 2013 12:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Luca Pitino http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-403937 Luca Pitino Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:23:06 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-403937 All my support to Soldera winery.
Keep going Mr.Soldera.Keep going.

]]> By: Soldera, wine writing, couch — sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-403720 Soldera, wine writing, couch — sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:01:25 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-403720 [...] police have arrested a former employee for the recent destruction of six vintages of Soldera Brunello. A motive appears to be that he was not provided a “mini apartment” at the estate. [...]

]]> By: Dr. Vino http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-403353 Dr. Vino Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:42:48 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-403353 Destruction of Soldera wine was likely done by former employee, reports Panorama.it. Police report due “within days.” http://t.co/MPRynQAK

]]> By: Patrick McGowen http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402691 Patrick McGowen Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:44:12 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402691 Said commentary although I don’t know if you can only blames the Vandals. There may have been some activity on the part of Goths and Visigoths. I think some more investigation may be in order to track down those heinous Germanic tribes that are alleged to have committed this atrocious act. This can only be described as alcohol abuse at it’s worst.
All kidding aside my thoughts to the winery for their loss.

]]> By: DanielP http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402654 DanielP Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:57:47 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402654 Lyle Fass: “worst news I could imagine out of Italy…”

Wine dumped down the drain.

Pick one.

]]> By: News: six vintages destroyed, winery demolished by accident | The Winedown http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402640 News: six vintages destroyed, winery demolished by accident | The Winedown Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:36:37 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402640 [...] Italy, running about $250-300 per bottle. The winery awoke this past Monday morning to find their entire supply of the past six vintages was detroyed. People snuck and drained every tank, letting the wine pour down the drain. Gone. The winery posted [...]

]]> By: IanS http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402639 IanS Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:31:24 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402639 I do hope there aren’t people thinking “He’d insured, therefore it doesn’t really matter and we can thus cover up for the perps”.

Who pays for the cost of insurance? Anyone that buys it.

It’s likely that such an event will impact every wineries premiums (as well as a few other farmers). They’ll pay a lot more (or not be able to afford it) after this event.

]]> By: Dr. Vino http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402635 Dr. Vino Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:52:26 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402635 I added a statement from Gianfranco Soldera. He says the carabinieri are on the case–I hope the perpetrators are brought to justice in a timely manner.

Jeremy Parzen has written an informative update on the matter. In it, he says that the wines were insured even against vandalism, adding “before becoming a winemaker, Gianfranco Soldera made his fortune in the insurance trade in Milan.”

Jeremy quotes the mayor of Montalcino who rules out mafia involvement. Jeremy also downplays vengeance from a fellow Brunello producer as a possible cause.

http://dobianchi.com/2012/12/04/soldera-vandal-brunello/

]]> By: Lenny Pepperidge http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402622 Lenny Pepperidge Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:59:52 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402622 Anyone know where RMP was that evening?

]]> By: Wino http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402597 Wino Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:11:09 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402597 Don’t expect very many Brunello producers to rush to Soldera’s aid. He is widely disliked, even hated there. There are plenty of people in his community who are probably happy that this happened, as sick as that sounds. Jealousy? Maybe, but he’s always been a controversial guy in his community and has never gone out of his way to make friends or be a part of the crowd. Remember that he was at the forefront of exposing the violations of DOCG law that were going on in Brunello a few years ago, which made him even more vilified by many of his neighbors. So that’s one place to start looking, if there’s ever to be a serious investigation into this.

]]> By: Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog » Daily Wine News: RIP Krug? http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402593 Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog » Daily Wine News: RIP Krug? Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:00:58 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402593 [...] Some terrible news in Italy. On Sunday evening, vandals broke into Case Basse di Gianfranco Soldera and opened the taps of all its large oak casks, completely destroying five vintages (2007-2012) of Soldera, one of the world’s most acclaimed Brunellos. [...]

]]> By: Jane Kettlewell http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402581 Jane Kettlewell Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:28:58 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402581 Let’s hope that the lost wine was insured.

]]> By: IanS http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402525 IanS Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:17:25 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402525 One can only assume he made some enemies with Brunellogate, even though it’s never been established he did ‘shop’ them.

When Bannockburn winery in Australia had the harvest destroyed by hail in 1998, wineries across the country sent them (very good) grapes to vinify, so they had something to sell. It will be interesting to see what response there is from the other Brunello producers.

]]> By: Dale W http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402524 Dale W Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:54:48 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402524 Really terrible story, especially since it’s my favorite BdM producer (but it would be terrible if it was a modernista).

]]> By: alan featherby http://www.drvino.com/2012/12/03/destroyed-five-complete-vintages-of-soldera/#comment-402521 alan featherby Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:12:38 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=11783#comment-402521 Tragic…hard to believe the futility of this.

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