Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
...mix it with earthy companions - mushrooms and peas - and mix it with pasta, scent it with thyme and a sprinkling of black olives, then pour yourself Ghemme.
Cantalupo 2007 Ghemme "Collis Breclamae" - dark red to the rim, nose and palate in sync: black raspberry, black cherry and leather, no hint of sweetness remains, fine and velvety tannins that are still enough to stop your tongue from sliding against the roof of your mouth, maybe somewhere in there is a whiff of orange peel and of camphor balls and of salty broth, the acids are taut as an espresso but speak in a vocabulary of fruit not torrefaction, arresting, insistent wine.
Oh, yes, and this bottle had the most stubborn cork I've contended with in years... the waiter's friend could not budge it so I superimposed an ah-so and, together, they made it move.
Cantalupo 2007 Ghemme "Collis Breclamae" - dark red to the rim, nose and palate in sync: black raspberry, black cherry and leather, no hint of sweetness remains, fine and velvety tannins that are still enough to stop your tongue from sliding against the roof of your mouth, maybe somewhere in there is a whiff of orange peel and of camphor balls and of salty broth, the acids are taut as an espresso but speak in a vocabulary of fruit not torrefaction, arresting, insistent wine.
Oh, yes, and this bottle had the most stubborn cork I've contended with in years... the waiter's friend could not budge it so I superimposed an ah-so and, together, they made it move.