Terre di Zia Lina Prosecco Millesimato

-

After quite a long and morose inner process I have decided to give up teaching and I will soon embrace a new step professionally by working at the wine section of an Italian importer in Hamburg. 

I have to confess that the temptation of working with wine has always been there and became stronger in these last months leading me to this final decision. 

Being so, I have already started fighting my gaps of knowledge about certain regions and styles and the ones reading this blog will probably start being bombed with extensive reviews of Italian wines in the following posts as this one may well be an example.

One of the wines I miss more tasting information is about sparkling wines. After a quick check I have just realized that I have only written one single review about a sparkling wine in this blog. 

Being so, it was for me quite obvious where to start when approaching the  topic on an Italian point of view: Prosecco.

With its name deriving from the village of Prosecco and not really being a reference to its dry character it is one of the most sold kind of wine around the world. 

I have decided to start my sparkling experience with this Terre di Zia which has impressed me with its rather strong pear taste allied with a straightforward and clear melon dew reinforced by the intensive carbon from the sparkling.

It was quite a perfect match for the rather warm days which have invaded Hamburg due to its lightness. Something I would definitely recommend for these warm summer days we have ahead of us.


 

 

Slow Waker by Thom Gunn

I look at the nephew,
eighteen, across the breakfast.
He had to be called and called.
He smiles, but without
conviction. He will not
have tea, oh OK,
if it’s no trouble,
he will have tea.

His adult face is brand-new.
Once the newness
clears up and it has got
an expression or two
besides bewilderment
he could be a handsome
devil. He could be
a carpenter, a poet, it’s
all possible…
impossible. The future
is not a word in his mouth.

That, for him, is the trouble:
he lay in bed caught deep
in the mire between
sleep and awake, neither
alert nor resting,
between the flow of night,
ceaselessly braiding itself,
and the gravelly beach
that our soles have thickened on.
Nobody has ever told him
he is good-looking,
just that his feet smell.

He paces through alien London
all day. Everything
is important and unimportant.
He feeds only by osmosis.
He stares at the glint
and blunt thrust of traffic. He
wants to withdraw.

He wants to withdraw into
a small space, like
the cupboard under the stairs
where the vacuum cleaner is kept,
so he can wait, and doze,
and get in nobody’s way.

 

 

16
/20
Country: Italy
Region: Prosecco
Grapes: Glera
11,5%
Winemaker: n/a
Website: www.reguta.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Luckert Müller-Thurgau 2021

-
Image
 There are grapes which tend to be seen as not prestigious as others.  Müller-Thurgau is, somehow, one of them. Created by the Swiss Hermann Müller as a crossing between Riesling and Madeilene Royale, it is still associated with low quality half-dry wines which were tremendously popular in Germany during the 70s and 80s.  Even though a long time has passed since then, it is interesting to see how most customers politely deny my recommendation whenever I do it.  In fact, it is quite hard to sell it to people aged between 30 and 50 as it may recall some bad memories of wine they may have tried with their parents.  The most positive side of it is that younger generations do start having a different approach to it, specially due to its flexibility to match spicy dishes and more exotic cuisine.  And that's exactly where this Müller-Thurgau has shown a tremendous depth with elegant ripe apples, nutmeg and a slight smoky note which made it tremendously interesting...
Read more

Guado al Tasso 2021

-
Image
 Last Tuesday I was at a wine fair promoted by one of the biggest German wine importers at one of the premium hotels in Hamburg. With a strong focus on gastronomy and small shops it was quite a mixed public, quite different in many ways to the habitués of masterclasses. Besides the tremendous offer, there was a couple of episodes which are still living inside me and that I would like to share.  The first one, I was at a South African stand and a man behind me pushed me and screamed to the person behind the stand that he wanted to try the Shyraz. I have quickly shared with him that he should try the amazing Pinotage before the Shyraz as it was surprisingly light and fruit driven. As an answer I got a lecture on how he was working for more than 50 years in the wine business and that there was nothing I could teach him about it. I have smiled and moved away. On another stand I have asked the person responsible for it if the Ribera del Duero that I was trying was a single graped T...
Read more

AOP Maury Ambré Louanges 1932 Chateau de L'Ou

-
Image
 How important is the history of a wine? Even though I always assume the challenge of trying to be impartial in my personal evaluation of a wine, I also have to confess that I barely achieve such goal as I tend to let myself seduce by all kinds of extra information which may influence my tasting. I am just too sensitive to the worlds you can build around a particular world which is a bottle of wine. Going directly to the wine in question, the fact that it was a 1932 harvest has directly awoken in me an almost uncontrollable world of expectations. Tasted at a recent event of Wines of Roussillon in Hamburg it came as the biggest highlight of a very eventful evening.  Composed of Grenache Gris and Grenache Blanc it has revealed nice dried apricots, dates and some bitter almonds coated by an acidity which imposed a tremendous freshness to a wine which is over 90 years old.  In a way, it presented itself fresher than a 2002 tasted right before. Only having been bottled in 2022...
Read more