Google brings up a good bit of information from a search on Platinetti Guido. Apparently it is a vineyard north of Torino and Milano and grows primarily Nebbiolo Ghemme grapes.
Google brings up a good bit of information from a search on Platinetti Guido.
The Coltibuono has always been a favorite. Along with Nozzole it has terrific quality and it can be hard to find.It's Monday again...
Several interesting wines today. The first one on the left tasted oxidized to me, but the instructor and wineshop owner apparently didn't agree. In a restaurant I would have returned it.
The Chianti Classico Reserva from Badia a Coltibuono was excellent, and both the Brunello and Vino Nobile de Montepulciano were like nectar. The Fobiano was a Bordeaux-style blend that was quite good and probably excellent value compared to comparable wines from Bordeaux.
The last wine on the right was a sweet wine from Elba, supposed to be an ideal companion to dark chocolate. In fact, samples of a special dark chocolate were served with it. I don't care for chocolate and the wine was terrible to my palate.
The second wine from the left was a very pleasant "orange" trebbiano from Umbria. The juice was left on the skins long enough to achieve a very light orange color. I liked it.
The Coltibuono has always been a favorite. Along with Nozzole it has terrific quality and it can be hard to find.
I put wines that cost $30 and up in a wine refrigerator in my sun room. (The others go in a larger wine refrigerator in our storage room.) The sun room has a ceramic tile floor, which is the hardest floor in our home. I'm told ceramic tile is even harder than concrete. For the first time in my life, I dropped a bottle of wine. Naturally, it was a higher end bottle and, naturally, it fell on that ceramic floor. Fortunately, the wine just barely costs enough to earn its place in that wine refrigerator. Better yet, I have three more bottles.
It's a Vino Nobile de Montepulciano Riserva. I've never had a riserva or anything purporting to be a high-end Vino Nobile. Looking forward to trying the three bottles I didn't break!
It reminds me of a guy I know who bought several bottles in 1976 of the red wine from Napa Valley that won the famous Judgement of Paris blind wind tasting that put Napa Valley on the international wine map. As he got out of his cab, the paper bag holding the bottles broke. All of the bottles broke and wine spilled all over the street. It is still perhaps the most famous wine ever made in America due to having won that blind tasting.
It reminds me of a guy I know who bought several bottles in 1976 of the red wine from Napa Valley that won the famous Judgement of Paris blind wind tasting that put Napa Valley on the international wine map. As he got out of his cab, the paper bag holding the bottles broke. All of the bottles broke and wine spilled all over the street. It is still perhaps the most famous wine ever made in America due to having won that blind tasting.
+10Please say a prayer for our fellow Americans in northern California's wine country. The wind fueled fires ravaging the area are becoming worse. Hopefully residents will listen to authorities and evacuate areas that are dangerous.
Dry and full-bodied but without much of real interest in the flavors.
Don't knock Gattinara until you've tried Travaglini's.
You'll like it! And it comes in a most photogenic bottle.I'll try it. But at $28, it better be good.
I'm gonna miss these posts of yours once you complete the series of wine tastings.
Any particular impressions of the three on the left and the bubbly?
Don't knock Gattinara until you've tried Travaglini's. Head and shoulders above all others, and among the best reds I've had.
How was the Gavi?
I'l have more to say about the Gavi in a little while.
... and the bubbly?