All Posts Tagged With: "Piedmont"
Vietti Arneis – Drink it all summer long – you’ll love it.
Vietti Roero Arneis, Piedmont, Italy, 2008
This wine is a pale sunshine color. It’s got fresh floral, citrus and melon aromas & hints of almonds. The wine is dry and medium bodied with crisp acidity. Elegant and well balanced, the Vietti Arneis has great complexity, depth and a pleasant lingering finish. This wine pairs well with [...]
Can we taste the hopes of a people in their wine? – Bricco delle Lepri Dolcetto di Dogliani, 2007
Where do wine and history connect? The change of grapes into wine, year in and year out, stands apart from the tumult of great events. Can we taste the hopes of a people in their wine? If the intensity of struggle and identity appears in any wine, it must surely be in the wines of [...]
27Aug2009 | Jason | 1 comment | Continued
The Wines of Piedmont class
Sunday, April 19th from 3:00 – 4:30
$35/Person
SOLD OUT! Call or email the shop to be put on our waiting list.
Piedmont is home to what may just be the most interesting wines on earth. Fashioned from Nebbiolo, the wines of Barolo and Barbaresco are stylish, mouthwatering wines, each different from the next. With distinct terroir comes [...]
15Mar2009 | Jason | 2 comments | Continued
Stefano Farina Barbera d’Alba 2006
Let’s look at three of the Piedmont reds: Barolo, Barbaresco, and Barbera d’Alba. Barolo and Barbaresco are stately wines which can reach a great age. When they are good, they smell like wet fir trees and taste like the forest floor. Barolo is the more sonorous and formidable; Barbaresco is ready to drink sooner [...]
4Feb2009 | Tim | 0 comments | Continued
Villa Sparina Gavi di Gavi, 2006 – Elusive and Appealing Summer White
Gavi di Gavi is a beautifully clean Italian white wine which you will love. It is not always easy to find.
Gavi is a village in the Piedmont in northwest Italy. The mountain climate is moderated by the Mediterranean. The soil is chalk and limestone. The Gavi wine is made with the Cortese grape. In 1798 [...]
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