Physics and holy wine

[Saina Nieminen]

Cosimo Maria Masini Vin Santo "Fedardo" 2003 - 29,50 / 0,375 l.; 16% abv; 95 g/l RS; 6,3 g/l acidity
Finland has never seen a great amount of Vin Santos and practically all of them have been very simple sweeties, truly three dimensional at best. This Fedardo seems more like an M-theory variant: if the unification of the string theories of modern physics, M-theory, is correct, our universe has eleven dimensions, ten of space and one of time.

A lovely oxidative aroma coupled with some volatility makes it seem like a tame version of a mid-sweet Madeira (Boal or Verdelho). Sweet but wonderfully crisp, much more so that I ever dared imagine a hot year could produce. Unbudged for about a week open. The complexity of this wine makes the mathematics of string theory seem simple.

 

[scottreiner]

i heard a story the other day -- from a greek wine importer -- and was wondering if anyone here gathered had any insight as to its veracity. the story goes that years ago the italians stole the name vin santo from the greeks. it turns out, i am told, that vin santo is a traditional greek name for sweet wine from the island of santorini, and that soon the italians will be forbidden from using the name...

anyone?

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by scottreiner:
i heard a story the other day -- from a greek wine importer -- and was wondering if anyone here gathered had any insight as to its veracity. the story goes that years ago the italians stole the name vin santo from the greeks. it turns out, i am told, that vin santo is a traditional greek name for sweet wine from the island of santorini, and that soon the italians will be forbidden from using the name...

anyone?

Jeremy Parzen has written about this a couple of times on dobianchi.com