Carpe Vinum Friday Flights! Tuscan Pleasures!
Hello Friends and Wine Lovers!
We’re heading to Italy! Not literally, unfortunately, but if we think hard enough, and wish hard enough, and imagine ourselves there, it just might happen! We’re still here. Somebody isn’t wishing hard enough. At any rate, that’s where we’re figuratively heading this week for the burly red wines of winter, here at Carpe Vinum. It seems appropriate that the wines that taste best in the winter come from warmer regions. Imagine it as summer in a bottle. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? On to the wines!
Italy produces, exports and drinks more wine than anyone else in the world. Perhaps that’s why they seem to be such a pleasant people. (Sopranos notwithstanding). I imagine Italy to be one giant vineyard, rolling over the hills, coast to coast, with happy Italians speeding through the grape clusters on Vespas, underneath the canopy of grapevines trellaced over the roads. If I think hard enough, that’s how I see it.
Tuscany, is one of the most famous of wine regions, being the home to the most highly-recognised Italian wine: Chianti. There are actually quite a few different designations of Chianti, the most pronounced being Chianti Classico. Also, there are Chianti Ruffina, Chianti Colli Fiorentini, Chianti Colli Senesi, Chianti Colli Pisani, Chianti Colli Arentini, and Chianti Montalbano, Chianti Montespertoli and possibly some newer ones, as well. Tuscany is also home to the the uber-expensive Brunello di Montalcino, as well as plenty of newer Super-Tuscans (IGT), of which 3 of Friday’s selected wines happen to be.
So Friday, November 5th, between 4:30 and 9:00 PM it’s:
Tuscan Pleasures!
Castel Pietraio 2001 Tegrimo IGT
Fattoria Capannacce 2001 Rosso della Maremma Toscana IGT
Le Corti 2002 Chianti Classico
Le Pupille 2002 Morelino di Scansano
Aia Vecchia 2002 Lagone Rosso IGT
The Extra-Special Premium Pours:
Capanna 2002 Rosso di Montalcino
Avignonesi 2001 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
A stellar deal at $10 for the first 5, and $6 for the Extra 2 Premium Pours.
Hope to see you here!
Seize the Wine!
Next Friday is Wines of the French Bordeaux!
M