Italian Wine Tasting
Friday, July 26th
Le Petit Bijou
We've rounded up some stunning wines from Piedmont, Marche, Campania, & the Veneto to set your dinner table. Lively, crisp whites and show stopper reds! A guaranteed win for summer entertaining!
Call 256-964-7980 to Reserve
Italian Wine Tasting
Le Petit Bijou
Friday, July 26th
4pm - 6pm, $20
With Special Guest, Phil Oreh of Alabama Crown Imports
256-964-7980 to Reserve
2022 Suavia Soave Classico, Veneto, Italy $15.99
Stone fruits and white pepper-laced acidity. Lovely depth. Mid-weighted, highly versatile and saline across a long, succulent finish.
Suavia Soave Classico is composed of 100% Garganega grapes harvested from the Tessari family's 12 hectare estate located in the historic heart of the Soave appellation. Suavia’s Soave Classico is vinified only in stainless steel tanks with several months’ lees contact before bottling. The resulting wine has a clarity of expression and regional typicity that speaks to the Tessari family's philosophy of careful selection, low yields and incredible attention to detail in the winemaking process.
2021 La Fortezza Sannio Grecco, Campania, Italy $21.99
100% Greco - 20 years old
No Oak
A gold color; complex aromas of ripe fruits, candied fruit, honey. Soft and well-structured.
La Fortezza is located in the heart of Sannio Benevento and spreads over a total of 20 hectares of vines. The winery is born from the great passion of the founder Enzo Rillo for his land. “La Fortezza” was built on the belief that making great wines starts in the vineyards and that the strength of the estate lies on the quality soil, sun exposure, altitude and care of the vineyards.
The project is based on the strong belief that producing a very good vintage is to express great love and strong passion for what they do, and to ensure the customers receive high quality wines with a stylish appeal.
2022 Simone Capecci Ciprea Pecorino, Marche, Italy $22.99
Complex and elegant Pecorino. This wine has body and beautiful acids. Shows of exotic fruit, melon, peach, citrus, salty and mineral. A mouthful of wine with a great price-quality ratio.
The hand-picked grapes with which this wine is made are proudly mentioned by winemaker Simone Cappeci on the back of the bottle. Simone is the third generation and very committed to the environment, the vineyards are therefore fully organically cultivated.
"The basis for a good wine is the work in the vineyard on the right terroir", says Simone Caprecci.
For years, the wines from the Marche were mainly drunk by the local population, but in recent years these wines have increasingly been discovered by enthusiasts outside Italy. The best-known grape is the verdicchio, but the local varieties passerina and pecorino are now becoming increasingly known as quality grapes.
2021 Valle Martello Brado Cococciola Colline Teatine, Abruzzo, Italy $21.99
Bouquet Fresh, savory and persistent Palate Floral first, followed by a light fruity citrus and tropical.
First example of vinification in purity of the native Abruzzo vine Cococciola. In the choice of making the Cococciola wine there is the desire to enhance our territory, that of the Teatine hills, where this grape variety is at its best. It is a wine with intense and ample aromas, ranging from floral to tropical fruit. It is a multifaceted white wine, with great freshness, ideal as an aperitif, with sushi, fish dishes, first courses and cheeses.
2020 Reva Nebbiolo D'Alba, Piedmont, Italy $35.99
Full, elegant flavour, with soft, enveloping tannins. Aromatic bouquet with hints of rose, red berries and spices.
The vineyards of Monforte d'Alba facing south can boast a calcareous-clayey soil of excellent composition. Fermentation takes place spontaneously and the wine ages 12 months in Austrian oak barrels.
Reva is a young project by the entrepreneur and collector Miroslav Lekes. The 23 hectares are managed by the four ambitious young winemaker in a biodynamic regime for a production of about 60,000 bottles. In full respect of the sacred local traditions they are able to draw a personal line in the character of their wines, far from the fashions of the moment.
2021 Simone Capecci Rosso Piceno, Marche, Italy $22.99
A wine with an intense ruby red colour. The nose reveals a very broad aromatic complex in which notes of cherry and plum blend with those of sweet spices (cinnamon and liquorice). The taste is full-bodied, rightly tannic and on the whole harmonious.
For this selection of Rosso Piceno Superiore the Latin name of Picchio has been chosen, the main symbol of the Picena civilization. The wine is made from a blend obtained from Montepulciano and Sangiovese grapes, grown in the restricted and most suitable area of D.O.C. Rosso Piceno, with aging in wood enhances its natural qualities to an evident superior level.