PSA: Piedmont

originally posted by VLM:
PSA: Piedmont
If you aren't reading Levi's blog, you are making a mistake.

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So my first response, before I visited, was, but I don't want to be a sommelier. Then I went anyway, and now I just feel insufficient. Go there, all of you, it's not as good as being there, but it seems it and no one's getting that kind of reportage from me about the Southern Rhone, I can tell you.
 
There is a new post up featuring this year's Giuseppe Rinaldi visit. You might check it out.

I guess that this note is spam, but sometimes spam tastes good.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
There is a new post up featuring this year's Giuseppe Rinaldi visit. You might check it out.

I guess that this note is spam, but sometimes spam tastes good.
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When it's spam made of prosciutto and pancetta, it does. Highest grade stuff here.
 
poste VLM
If you aren't reading Levi's blog, you are making a mistake
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So could someone elucidate the "we" said scribe sprinkles opaquely through his otherwise admirable travel logs? What is this group of people with so much time at liberty to visit winery cellars in faraway places? Do we have outside lives? I mean, I used to do this sort of thing, but I was crazy. It is certainly good to go, because travel is necessary to build expertise in this field. But it takes time, money, and, most often, a we or two.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
There is a new post up featuring this year's Giuseppe Rinaldi visit. You might check it out.

I guess that this note is spam, but sometimes spam tastes good.
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Levi, wonderful posts as always. Did you try the baroli?
 
originally posted by Cristian Dezso:
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
There is a new post up featuring this year's Giuseppe Rinaldi visit. You might check it out.

I guess that this note is spam, but sometimes spam tastes good.
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Levi, wonderful posts as always. Did you try the baroli?
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At Beppe?

This time around we sampled

2009 Brunate-Le Coste from botti
2008 Brunate-Le Coste from bottle
and
2009 Cannubi S. Lorenzo-Ravera from botti

The cask samples are pretty wild because they haven't had sulphur added yet. They add it at bottling. The perfume of the 2009 Cannubi S.L.-Ravera was pretty endless.

Last year's visit was 2006s, 2007s and I think an 2009 botti sample.
 
I was asking because you offered your impressions on the wines fo both Mascarellos, but not on the Rinaldi this or the last time. Well, I guess you can only really talk about the ones from bottle. I've only tried the 2008 Marcarini Brunate and I have to say it was spectacular - so much better than the 2007.
 
originally posted by Cristian Dezso:
I was asking because you offered your impressions on the wines fo both Mascarellos, but not on the Rinaldi this or the last time. Well, I guess you can only really talk about the ones from bottle. I've only tried the 2008 Marcarini Brunate and I have to say it was spectacular - so much better than the 2007.
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I tend to offer notes on specific wines where I think it might illustrate a broader point or be a surprise to someone. There are already so many venues out there for tasting notes, I don't really see the value in being one more. Plus I think it is like pinning butterflies to a board, but that's neither here nor there.

Anyway, I like the wines of Giuseppe Rinaldi a whole, whole lot. I guess I sort of take it as a given and go from there. I do think that the whole "undrinkable when young" reputation is being given the run around by the regular arrival of warm vintages. I don't think the young wines are undrinkable at all, actually. And I do think it would be nice to see the other wines, aside from the Barolos, in the States. I also worry about pricing for the Barolos.

And they weren't my favorite 2007s.

But in general I like the wines a great deal.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:

And they weren't my favorite 2007s.
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See, this is already a surprise. But I understand.

And thanks for the great Oddero post - very interesting on the influence of maceration. Looking forward to Brovia - which I assume you also visited.
 
Thanks for the good word about the Oddero write up.

We did visit Brovia. There were also visits to Giacomo Conterno, Cappellano, and some other good addresses.
 
originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Thanks for the good word about the Oddero write up.

We did visit Brovia. There were also visits to Giacomo Conterno, Cappellano, and some other good addresses.
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Great, we so much liked Augusto Cappellano the one time we visited. And the floating v. submerged cap experiments he was doing at the time and perhaps he showed you if they remain ongoing.
 
Someone with keen enough interest and the necessary writing skill should do for Piedmont what Coates and Kramer did for Cote d'Or, by writing a definitive reference (hint, hint).
 
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