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97 Tenuta Marchese Antinori CCR The Marchese bottling is Antonori's best Chianti, Roserva other than Monsanto"s Il Poggio, after those two come the Fontodi, Il Pallazino, San Guisto, Isola e Elena IMVHO. I've had the 1958 and it was one hell of a wine. The firm that partners with what ever is left of Mondavi, Frescobaldi makes chianti Riserva the the Rufina DOC under the name Montesodi, its more cmplex than the Nippozano Riserva made by Frescobaldi. I saw Mondovino and emjoyed the byplay on the courting of Mondavi. I thought Nossiter was particularly buttinine when he asked wine making families if they backed Il Duce. Either you backed or at least tolerated the Fascisti, or you had no business. Of the dozen or so Germans I did business with, most were children during WWII, but said their family was not involved. Almost all said they no little about the Holocaust until TV and then the movies brought it to their attention. A number of Italian winemakers, mostly in Piemonte were anti-fascist and closed off their cellars, the late Renato Ratti was in the resistance as was Gaja's family and Alfredo Currado of Vietti. Elvio Cogno was a POW in England and helped MI-5. The more relevant question is if they hid Jews and Gypsies after the German's took over the war in Italy, A good number of wineries I visited didn't have a cross in their home or biblical depictions of Jesus, Joseph and Mary. Most of these saw the Star of David I wore and asked if I was "Ivri" (Jewish) and had I been to Israel, 40 years after WWII they played down the fact that they were Jewish. fruit
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