Winetasting, again…
I do live in Darmstadt, Germany, as mentioned before, and here we do have a renowned “provider” or “supplier” of mainly southern european good foods, including olive-oil, and wines: E. Molina in the Adelungstr. 3. They also do provide, twice a year, a customer winetasting event in the so-called Prinz-Emil-Schlösschen, which is an open event during two days. Last weekend was the fall re-occurence of this for this year. They charge 15,- EURO to try to cover costs, but looking at the amount of available stuff, I do doubt, that the money covers the costs. They even offer a refund, if you buy some of the stuff later on in their shops (you can do so for a month) for more than 60,- EUR. In total, there were about 220 wines, proseccos, oils, grappa, etc. available for tasting.
We went there with some friends, and started with a prosecco. As I’m more the dry wine drinker, I also choose a dry one, namely the Prosecco Spumante Brut from Nino Franco from Valdobbiadene. I’m not a great fan of proseccos, so I can’t really comment on this one. It was fine, is all, I can say.
We then went over to one of the spanish tables to grab a couple of spanish wines to go with the dinner-snacks: bread with cheese, salami, olives.
After the snack, we continued with some italian red wines, and then returned to spanish ones. After a long series, we finally decided to finish with Grappa and/or Brandy. I did not note the order, I only made short notes. And, we all knew quite well, what we wanted, so overall, we didn’t have many failures.
We had a nice long evening, with many wines tasted. The next day, we didn’t have headaches, so, we really enjoyed the evening!
Overall, I did taste (short comments in brackets):
- Villa Pigna, Offida, Marken
- Vergaio, Rosso Piceno Superiore DOC, 2001 (good!!)
- Rosso Vellutato IGT marche, 2003 (good for meals!!)
- Briccaio, Vellutato IGT Marche, 2001 (very good!)
- Rozzano IGT Marche, 2003 (very good!!)
- Azienda Agricola Pecchenino, Dogliani(CN), Piemont
- Quass, Barbera D’Alba, DOC, 2004 (very good, but still needs to rest some time)
- Fontanafredda, Serralunga D’Alba e Barolo, Piemont
- Raimonda, Barbera D’Alba, DOC, 2003 (good, but still needs some time to rest)
- Barolo Serralunga D’Alba, DOCG, 2001 (very good!!)
- Alessandro De Conciliis e figli, Prignano, Kampanien
- Donnaluna Aglianico, IGT Paestum, 2005 (good, but smells very good!)
- Fattoria Villa Matilde, Cellole, Kampanien
- Falerno del Massico Rosso DOC, 2003 (good with meals, light)
- Aglianico, IGT, Rocca dei Leoni, 2005 (this was not my taste, and it was too new)
- Azienda Agricola Maculan, Breganze, Venetien
- Palazzotto, Cabernet Sauvignon Breganze DOC, 2004 (very good!!)
- Torcolato, DOC, 2003 (very good, also as a desert-wine)
- Cantina Cortegiara, Cortegiara, Venetien
- Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, DOC, 2003 (very good!!)
- Recioto della Valpolicella DOC, 2002 (very good, also as a desert-wine)
- Tenimenti Angelini, Montepulciano, Toskana
- Val di Suga, Brunello di Montalcino, DOCG, 2001 (very good!!)
- Bodegas Castaño, Yecla, D.O. Yecla
- Pozuelo Crianza D.O. Yecla, 2003 (well-known, this is the 2003, good!!)
- Bodegas Sierra Salina, Villena, D.O. Alicante
- Puerto Salinas, D.O. Alicante, 2003 (good!!)
- Selección de la casa: Vinos Paco Molina
- PACO MOLINA “Prestigio” D.O. Yecla, 2004 (good!)
- PACO MOLINA “Expresión” D.O. Yecla, 2003 (very good, but only with meals)
- Bodega Casa Juan, Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa
- Cuarteto, Tinto Crianza, D.O.C. Rioja, 2002, Selección Molina (tastes similar like the next, but only costs half!)
- Cuarteto, Tinto Reserva D.O.C. Rioja, 2001, Selección Molina (good!)
- And we finished with: Rocca delle Macie, Castellina in Chianti, Toskana
- Here we had a Grappa and a Brandy, very, very, very good. I didn’t note the names… ;-(
- And we started with:
- Prosecco Spumante Brut, Nino Franco, Valdobbiadene, DOC
Themocracy
I prefer italien wine very much. But spanish is also very good. Anyway: Italiens are the best !!!