Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri 2011, NYC: Belated Recollections
Posted By Joel on March 1, 2011
I knew there would be good wines. It was, after all, a prestigious Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri tasting. But, even good wines can have the nasty habit of wanting a lot of other things from you besides that you enjoy them.
Today, my attention is directed to wines heroic in their ability to spark my imagination without obligation to think or feel a certain way about them at the expense of experiencing them, if that makes any sense.
Not as easy as it sounds, even at a prestigious wine event: during the course of the day, the narcissistic, the selfish, the vain, and the egotistical would all make their appearances in my tasting glass.
But, I prefer to tell you of heroes – they include:
The sublime, late harvest Albana di Romagna Secca Codronchio ’08 from Fattoria Monticino Rosso that offered the delicious gifts of pure enjoyment, emotion, and owing it nothing in return.
Fattoria Monticino Rosso
Cuvee Annamaria Clementi from Ca’ del Bosco, Berlucchi Palazzo Lana Extreme and the stunning Pas Dosé QdE Riserva ’04 from IL Mosnel transformed the tasting experience with mind-expanding Franciacorta tonalities.
IL Mosnel
And I loved Le Piane Boca, blended of Nebbiolo (85%) and Vespolina, a structured and expressive wine that possesses a vocabulary to ignite heart and soul.
Staggeringly good was Pelissero’s dark, moody, vividly alive Barbaresco Vanotu ’07, a wine that, like language, seems to exist only to communicate. Poetic.
To end, as a side note, a constructive thought relating to event planning: the queues to enter the Metropolitan Pavilion generally moved along well, but the welcome experience could be improved next time around by avoiding these.
About the author
Joel
Joel Mack has worked for a celebrated importer / distributor of Italian wines and continues to study the wines and winemaking of Italy. He has advised many restaurants in making their Italian wine list selections and has provided training to restaurant staff. Today, Joel conducts wine classes and leads specialized private and corporate tastings of Italian wines. Joel carried out his higher education at a highly regarded College of Music and continues to extend an artistic point of view to Italian wine, balanced with factual information about wine, its nature and identity. By day, he applies his time to collaborative software technology. Joel can be contacted at joel@vintrospective.com.Comments
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che bella la foto di Lucia Barzanò…una ragazzina
Thanks Vittorio, it is true… the camera loves her
— Joel.