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Jeff Grossman

Jeff Grossman
Well, tomorrow's resto has an all-Italian wine list: click for pdf

There is a cesanese wine so maybe I'll force the choice. Also a Frascati!

But there is also Falkenstein riesling. And a Sagrantino I've never had.

A lot of middling bottles.

Anybody else spy anything good here?
 
Not a very inspiring list, makes one pine for cookie cutter.

2013 Produttoris have been getting good comments and seem to exhibit early drinkability.
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not a very inspiring list, makes one pine for cookie cutter.

2013 Produttoris have been getting good comments and seem to exhibit early drinkability.
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This, 100%. Unless Greg or Levi weighs in with an interesting alternative.

The most adventurous I might get is the Jermann Riesling if you need a white.
 
This is why people stay home: so they can drink the fine cellars they have and not have to experiment. But, if you are interested, the list isn't all that bad. The Russo Etna Rosso might be good, along with the Chiuse Rosso, the Bucci, a couple of other whites, and there is always Prosecco, especially if you are on holiday!
 
originally posted by Jayson Cohen:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not a very inspiring list, makes one pine for cookie cutter.

2013 Produttoris have been getting good comments and seem to exhibit early drinkability.
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This, 100%. Unless Greg or Levi weighs in with an interesting alternative.

The most adventurous I might get is the Jermann Riesling if you need a white.
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Jermann Riesling is a deft bit of wordplay.
 
Points for getting a Mataossu on the list. Have not tasted one from this particular producer, so unable to comment. But points nevertheless.
 
originally posted by Jim Hanlon:
Girolamo Russo makes very nice wines on Etna. If you've not had the pleasure, I heartily recommend it.
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I'll second this. I also like the Colla Barabresco and it's 2007 so may show well. I might be talked into the Mura Cannonau depending on what I was eating.
 
As it turns out, almost none of those bottles is still available. The Bucci and the Mataossu were there, the Produttori was up to 2014, and everything else was gone.

Then people kicked up a fuss at the table about the wine, so we just did btg.

I ordered a seafood pasta and drank Gavi.
 
originally posted by Pavel Tchichikov:
Points for getting a Mataossu on the list. Have not tasted one from this particular producer, so unable to comment. But points nevertheless.
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on the kermit lynch website, punta crena avers that they are the only producer of mataossu, and that the other two that profess to offer mataossu are actually using the lumassina grape. which would make any others offerings of mataossu bogus.

punta crena also claim to be the only producer left making wine from the crovino (not to be confused with the corvina) grape.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
As it turns out, almost none of those bottles is still available. The Bucci and the Mataossu were there, the Produttori was up to 2014, and everything else was gone.

Then people kicked up a fuss at the table about the wine, so we just did btg.

I ordered a seafood pasta and drank Gavi.
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Bummer. Don't know how big the group was, nor the social situation, but generally I just prefer to pay the bill and order the wine - and my friends are happy to let me do so - though at the outset of many dinners they don't know that we have already told the restaurant not to present the bill at the table (this was SFJoe's MO, as well, at his business dinners - there was no way clients were going to decide what the group was drinking).
 
originally posted by robert ames:

on the kermit lynch website, punta crena avers that they are the only producer of mataossu, and that the other two that profess to offer mataossu are actually using the lumassina grape. which would make any others offerings of mataossu bogus.
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Good point.

Even more amusing is the frequent claim that vermentino and pigato are one and the same: they are genetically, and the wines may taste similar when produced indifferently, but both walking through the vines at PC and tasting the two wines place the claim (that must originate from lazy commercial convenience) squarely into the realm of the absurd.
 
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