{"id":333,"date":"2006-10-31T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T11:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/?p=333"},"modified":"2006-10-31T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T11:06:15","slug":"winetasting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Winetasting, again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI do live in Darmstadt, Germany, as mentioned before, and here we do have a renowned &#8220;provider&#8221; or &#8220;supplier&#8221; 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-Schl&ouml;sschen, 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.<\/p>\n<p>We went there with some friends, and started with a prosecco. As I&#8217;m more the dry wine drinker, I also choose a dry one, namely the Prosecco Spumante Brut from Nino Franco from Valdobbiadene. I&#8217;m not a great fan of proseccos, so I can&#8217;t really comment on this one. It was fine, is all, I can say.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t have many failures.<\/p>\n<p>We had a nice long evening, with many wines tasted. The next day, we didn&#8217;t have headaches, so, we really enjoyed the evening!<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I did taste (short comments in brackets):<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Villa Pigna, Offida, Marken\n<ul>\n<li>Vergaio, Rosso Piceno Superiore DOC, 2001 (good!!)\n<li>Rosso Vellutato IGT marche, 2003 (good for meals!!)\n<li>Briccaio, Vellutato IGT Marche, 2001 (very good!)\n<li>Rozzano IGT Marche, 2003 (very good!!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Azienda Agricola Pecchenino, Dogliani(CN), Piemont\n<ul>\n<li>Quass, Barbera D&#8217;Alba, DOC, 2004 (very good, but still needs to rest some time)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Fontanafredda, Serralunga D&#8217;Alba e Barolo, Piemont\n<ul>\n<li>Raimonda, Barbera D&#8217;Alba, DOC, 2003 (good, but still needs some time to rest)\n<li>Barolo Serralunga D&#8217;Alba, DOCG, 2001 (very good!!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Alessandro De Conciliis e figli, Prignano, Kampanien\n<ul>\n<li>Donnaluna Aglianico, IGT Paestum, 2005 (good, but smells very good!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Fattoria Villa Matilde, Cellole, Kampanien\n<ul>\n<li>Falerno del Massico Rosso DOC, 2003 (good with meals, light)\n<li>Aglianico, IGT, Rocca dei Leoni, 2005 (this was not my taste, and it was too new)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Azienda Agricola Maculan, Breganze, Venetien\n<ul>\n<li>Palazzotto, Cabernet Sauvignon Breganze DOC, 2004 (very good!!)\n<li>Torcolato, DOC, 2003 (very good, also as a desert-wine)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Cantina Cortegiara, Cortegiara, Venetien\n<ul>\n<li>Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, DOC, 2003 (very good!!)\n<li>Recioto della Valpolicella DOC, 2002 (very good, also as a desert-wine)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Tenimenti Angelini, Montepulciano, Toskana\n<ul>\n<li>Val di Suga, Brunello di Montalcino, DOCG, 2001 (very good!!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Bodegas Casta&ntilde;o, Yecla, D.O. Yecla\n<ul>\n<li>Pozuelo Crianza D.O. Yecla, 2003 (well-known, this is the 2003, good!!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Bodegas Sierra Salina, Villena, D.O. Alicante\n<ul>\n<li>Puerto Salinas, D.O. Alicante, 2003 (good!!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Selecci&oacute;n de la casa: Vinos Paco Molina\n<ul>\n<li>PACO MOLINA &#8220;Prestigio&#8221; D.O. Yecla, 2004 (good!)\n<li>PACO MOLINA &#8220;Expresi&oacute;n&#8221; D.O. Yecla, 2003 (very good, but only with meals)\n<\/ul>\n<li>Bodega Casa Juan, Laguardia, Rioja Alavesa\n<ul>\n<li>Cuarteto, Tinto Crianza, D.O.C. Rioja, 2002, Selecci&oacute;n Molina (tastes similar like the next, but only costs half!)\n<li>Cuarteto, Tinto Reserva D.O.C. Rioja, 2001, Selecci&oacute;n Molina (good!)\n<\/ul>\n<li>And we finished with: Rocca delle Macie, Castellina in Chianti, Toskana\n<ul>\n<li>Here we had a Grappa and a Brandy, very, very, very good. I didn&#8217;t note the names&#8230; ;-(\n<\/ul>\n<li>And we started with:\n<ul>\n<li>Prosecco Spumante Brut, Nino Franco, Valdobbiadene, DOC\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do live in Darmstadt, Germany, as mentioned before, and here we do have a renowned &#8220;provider&#8221; or &#8220;supplier&#8221; of mainly southern european good foods, including olive-oil, and wines: E. Molina in the Adelungstr. 3. 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