Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy Sean Thackeray is a legendary

Sean Thackeray is a legendary winemaker who rejects the concept of terroir

No toasty oak sweetness here

only sold to their wine club members at fairly high prices

only quality counts

Bourgueil (burr-goy) is in the middle Loire on the North side of the river and makes some of the silkiest and elegant reds of the Loire

Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy Sean Thackeray is a legendaryThis wine has a story like a combination of a soap opera and an episode of This American Life. Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, the Prince of Venosa, decided in the late 40s, at the urging of the most prominent Italian enologist of his day, Dr. Tancredi Biondi Santi, to plant Bordeaux varietals on his estate on the Appian Way just outside Rome (the address, Appia Antica 400, is the namesake of this wine) long before that had become fashionable in Italy.