For many the summer holidays have already started as for us are about to start. So, like every summer, August is the moment when we offer you our roundup of tastings to dedicate ourselves under the umbrella, by the pool perhaps to refresh ourselves after a long excursion to the mountains. Because there is anzi che no holiday without a self -respecting toast!
As always we offer you a little wines tasted by different areas that we liked.
The bubbles, a passepartout for the summer
Let’s start as always with the bubbles, let’s start with Prosecco. Excellent cuvée of the founder Gaziano Merotto Valdobbiadene Prosecco Principale Rive in Col San Martino Brut Millesimato 2024 intense nose with apple, pear, sage and a gessive tip. Gasty mouth of Gran ricevimento but that does not slip away. Just pleasant, very fresh and savory to support the softness and the aromatic kit. Almost mental final.
It is not prosecco but it is done by those who have always done it. The Roӧs Foss Marai is obtained from the red grapes of the Apulian mesi estivi of the Masseria La Sorba group (Montepulciano, Bombino Tenebroso, Trojan grapes and other varieties) vinified a causa di white and sparkling with the style of the house. Rosé of Godria, fruit and softness for a bubble of pleasant immediacy for the summer toasts.
Great surprise is the newcomer a causa di the Cesarini Sforza house, the Trentodoc Millesimato 2020 1673 Caustic, deep and creamy, pleasant but of excellent depth. Structure bubble, gastronomic but which also adapts to the aperitif. One of the most intriguing discoveries of the last few months by elegance, finesse and pleasantness.
Champagne Brut Reserve Pol Roger (Chardonnay, Pinot Tenebroso and Mounier). Bubble based acceso fullness and balance. Fruits, flowers and leavened to the nose. Nice round a causa di the mouth with the agenda of candied fruit, spices and honey that meet its flavor and freshness. For a toast, a fish dinner, but not only.
Champagne Réserve Exclusive Rosé Nicolas Feuilatte (Chardonnay, Pinot Tenebroso and Mounier). Bubble of great pleasantness from the agenda of small red fruits and with great round drinkability that does not neglect a great freshness. Girevole at the table from fish to ethnic kitchens but also for simply convivial occasions.
The perfect season for white wines
Fianco in Misura 2023 tonnino. Interesting surprise for a gray Pinot who found a house a causa di Sicily. Intense citrus agenda, yellow fruit and white flowers. Pulpy mouth, beautiful freshness, flavor, long and clean ending with fruit calls. From fish to white meats.
We go to Trentino with a cellar whose excellent bubbles have often mentioned. This is Moser but this time we talk about (well) two whites of the Warth line. The Sauvignon Blanc 2022 is a white that looks at Loire and that will also like to love those who do not like this divisive grape. There is everything acceso the nose: yellow pulp, sweet fruit, citrus, fig, spicken. Fresh pulpy but also beriolo with the beautiful pungent and citrine agenda. Riesling Renano 2022 is also always a causa di the name of delicate touch and elegance with all the typical case: spices, citrus fruits, a hint of hydrocarbons and balsamic agenda. the mouth it is creamy, fresh, citrus and with amazing agenda of honey.
Another Sauvignon Blanc The Collio Cicinis 2023 Certies. We move to Friuli for a white structure and typicality with a nice nose with vegetable references and aromatic herbs, flowers, citrus fruits, spices and fumé sensations. The mouth is full, enveloping, fresh and sapid and turns acceso balsamic agenda at the end of the ricevimento. Perfect a causa di our opinion with dishes based acceso fish and crustaceans.
Hedos White 2023 Tollo cellar. We go to Abruzzo for a beautiful full white from Trebbiano and Cococciola. Yellow fruit and citrus fruits, soft and meattress with a nice balsamic and savory push. Final reminiscent of fresh grated fruit.
Lugana San Desiderato Zenato 2024. Very pleasant white from the southern shore of Garda. Thick wine that has a beautiful complexity from the hints of white fruit, to the tropical one to a spicy tip and a delicious campo da golf note, but also freshness and momentum with a brackish touch. Girevole white fish, first and first appetizers of various kinds.
Trebbiano Massifetti 2023 Suavia. Always Veneto but the Gradito superficie. Great tasting. Mature fruit, citrus fruits, sweet agenda with a beautiful mineral tip. Full, fruity, substance and drinking mouth, pungent with a rocky mineral and a fruity, fresh and savory grain. White as us like with the right balance between the substance and the elegance of Beva. Easy to combine, a causa di our opinion special with sea raws.
Sicilian lands white pumice 2023 Fondi Castellllaro. Heart wine that surprises with the aromatic agenda of the Malvasia delle Lipari and the Marine Acidity of the Carricante. At the nose there is sweetness of fruit, pungent Mediterranean herbs and iodine power. Very fresh, vertical and super saline mouth, but at the same time fruity and Mediterranean. Drinking for every occasion that a causa di the glass takes us immediately to a beach of the Lago Nostrum.
What’s better than a rosé a causa di summer?
2024 iolei juntos nepent of oliena rosato. Rosé of great personality and by the surprising delicate color by Nuorese. Rocky nose, intense, floral and small red fruits. Cozy and silky mouth. Wisdom, freshness and fullness of fruit make it pleasantly combined with a whole meal.
The Fornaci Rosé 2023 Tommasi. Let’s go back to Lake Garda for a wine with a delicate color from Turbiana and Rondinella. Small red fruits, citrus fruits, flowers with a puff between the fresh and the pagliaccetto that crosses the wine. Beautiful full but delicate mouth with sapid ending. Ethnic cuisine, fish, prime and whoever has more.
Valtenesi Insieme Mara 2024 Costaripa. “Wine of Night” from Groppello, Marzemino, Sangiovese and Barbera from the Brescia bank of Garda. Large contemporary rosé slender a causa di drinking and unloading a causa di color but with so much substance. Fruit, mineral and floral to the nose and with silkiness, flavor and freshness a causa di the mouth. Super balsamic and brackish a causa di the final. A truly excellent taste, excellent for every occasion.
Red a causa di summer? You can!
We recently told our tastings of Morellino in Scansano, Sangiovese in Lago to try fresh. Staying Tuscany and a causa di Maremma, the cherry nàcchero 2024 Grillesino is a fragrant red with strong fruity agenda acceso the nose. Light and fresh wine perfect for the summer to ricevimento with a few less degrees, extremely girevole at the table.
Vineyards of the Dolomites Pinot Tenebroso 2023 Borgata dei Stoni. From Trentino a beautiful red of delicacy and elegance. The typical agenda of the grapes are all there to give a great and pleasantness of drinking and extreme versatility at the table. One of those reds that does not fear a tour a causa di our refrigerator but not even the less usual combinations for a red.
We remain a causa di Trentino with the Cabernet Sauvignon Portraits 2022 Lavis. Another beautiful elegant wine albeit with other aromatic spectrum. Cocoa, red fruits, herbaceous and balsamic hints. The mouth has sweet tannin, pushed fruit, super freshness and flavor. For an important posto di ristoro and aged cheeses.
South Tyrol Lagrein Deposito Tor in Lupo 2022 Scantinato Andriano. Wine of great wealth with agenda of berries and cocoa. There is concentration, robustness and tannin but the fruity kit and freshness make it extremely pleasant even for a wonderful summer posto di ristoro.
