Thursday evening Piedmont tasting at the Wine Bottega was a stop well-spent.
They opened quite an array of wines and anyone would have loved to spend hours with each bottle. I guess that was part of their strategy. To entice you into purchasing! : )
Lots of goodies, too much for concentration (given the crowd!), but I was particularly struck by the 2008 Brovia Roero Arneis Castiglione Falletto which had firm density plus lovely lively tangy body and snap. Something I would definitely purchase if I could only get myself to stop drinking riesling!
The 2007 ‘Tavijn Grignolino d’Asti was an excellent rendition of this wine with a nice amount of fruit on the bones before the raspy structure took over. This is what I like for Thanksgiving!
The 2007 Bartolo Mascarello Dolcetto d’Alba was predictably gorgeous category-redefining wine. So balanced, so serious, so fun.
I won’t pretend to have any accurate reads on the Barolo and Barbaresco wines, too short of a snapshot. But I will say that the 2004 Poderi Colla Barbaresco Roncaglie was showing extremely well to me. So easy so focused so pretty. The 1997 Oddero Barbaresco also impressed me because I don’t know much about the vintage but behind the sweet fruit was a pretty firm and regal structure. Nice architecture. The 2004 Ca’ Rome’ Barbaresco Maria di Brun did not suck either, so fragrant. Finally, my mouth was comforted by the 1993 Roagna Barolo La Rocca e La Pira Riserva but it was the closest to maturity of the nebbiolo wines so it wasn’t a fair fight.
And there was more. Not bad.
