Italian Wine Tasting
Join us for this beautiful line up of Rare & Brilliant wines from Piedmont and Romagna!
Friday, September 13th
Le Petit Bijou
Call 256-964-7980 to Reserve
Italian Wine Tasting
Le Petit Bijou
Friday, September 13th
4pm - 6pm, $20
With Special Guest, Beth Farris of Grassroots
256-964-7980 to Reserve
2019 Luigi Giordano Nebbiolo Brut Nature Rose, Piedmont, Italy $45.99
100% Nebbiolo harvested from north-west facing vineyards in Barbaresco, averaging between 30-35 years old.
Abundant, rose-tinted effervescence with a fine and persistent perlage. The wine is rose to cherry-pink in color with salmon highlights. The perfume is intense and ample with notes of raspberry, red berries, citrus fruits and a hint of wilted roses. The flavor is fresh and full-bodied with a soft, clean aftertaste and a slightly tannic finish.
2022 Mandirola 1913 Derthona Coli Tortonesi Timorasso, Piedmont, Italy $28.99
Grape variety: Timorasso 100% Age of vines: around 30 years
This estate holds the distinction of owning the oldest known plantings of Timorasso in the Colli Tortonesi within an historic vineyard named Tantèi, a site from which the earliest massale selections were taken to rescue Timorasso from extinction in the late 1980s.
Bouquet: intense, persistent with traces of fruit and flowers. Smooth and elegant with mineral ending scents. Taste: typical, mineral flavor, hints of mature plum; toasted almond at the end.
Serving suggestion: Timorasso is a precious wine suitable to the whole meal. It excels as an accompaniment to tasty and cured cheese. It is an elegant support to dishes of white meat, patès and vegetarian servings. Timorasso enhances also the taste of the famous Piemontese ‘white truffle’.
2022 La Messe Albanno Secco, Romagna, Italy $24.99
La Messe Albana Secco hails from the Romagna DOCG in central Italy. Oregon’s Montinore Estate sources organically grown fruit from the region to create a skin-contact, dry Albana wine. The history of the variety is debated, with some saying it dates back to the time of the Romans. The green-skinned grapes are rarely grown outside the region and can produce everything from sparkling wines to dry to sweet thanks to its high acidity, allowing it to age well. The fruit for La Messe Albana Secco enjoys fifteen days of skin contact, adding richness and a plush golden hue to the aromatic wine. Layers of wildflowers, ripe peach, and lemon zest open in the wine, followed by juicy stone fruit flavors of white plum, apricot, and peach, with a hint of bitter almond on the finish.
2023 Luigi Giordano Vino Rosso, Piedmont, Italy $22.99
Like nothing else you've had from Piemonte!
A Nebbiolo dominant blend, this wine is light, lithe and refreshing as H-E-double-hockey sticks!! How is that possible when Nebbiolo shows such youthful grip, you may ask....well this super unique blend contains about 20% Roero Arneis, a white variety native to the region. This adds aromatics and lift to the wine, softening the tannins along the way.
This brilliantly easy-going bottle is translucent ruby in the glass, exploding with crunchy fruits including ripe strawberry, red cherry, peach skin, and that Nebbiolo signature of dried roses. It is both electrifying and refreshing at once!
2022 La Messe Sangiovese Superiore, Romagna, Italy $24.99
La Messe Sangiovese di Romagna wafts from the glass with an inviting mix of blackberries and cherries engulfed in sweet smoke and hints of citrus sorbet. This is round and soothing, with ripe red and black fruits. It’s soft-textured with juicy acidity that propels its ripe wild berry fruits as violet florals form toward the close. It finishes with minerality and hints of licorice while tapering off with impressive length, well-structured, and completely fresh.
2022 Cantina Massara Verduno Peleverga, Piedmont, Italy $36.99
pale ruby red.
BOUQUET: lively, intense, and fragrant featuring Maraschino cherry, raspberry and white pepper, followed by aromas of rose and violet.
TASTE: light-bodied, crunchy cherry and raspberry mingle with stony minerality, finishing crisp with hints of violets. Best served chilled.
To fully appreciate the legacy of Cantina Massara, one must refer to the storied past of the Burlotto family in Verduno. In the year 1940 when the family fractured into three winemaking entities—the nascent Cantina Massara and Castello di Verduno in addition to the extant Comm. G.B. Burlotto. Now among today’s brightest stars of Verduno, Cantina Massara is helmed by fifth-generation Gian Carlo Burlotto along with his son Gianluca and his daughter Claudia. The historic estate’s three Baroli and a mesmerizing bottling of the rare Pelaverga Piccolo grape collectively embody the unique characteristics of Verduno-based wines that are remarkably perfumed and lifted while tempering power with tension.