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Tenuta Sant'Antonio Valpolicella Nanfre 2012

So you go to a party and walk into a room full of people you don't know. One by one you meet the guests. There's the blowhard know it all. There's the shy and reserved innocent. Here comes another one ... the intellectual who speaks in words far too verbose to carry on a conversation. And then, exhausted from meeting all these different personalities, you come across a wonderful, friendly, curious person who is interested in you and genuinely laughs at your jokes and ends the conversation with "I really like you. Let's do this again sometime, shall we?"

That wonderful and genuine person is the same as this bottle of Valpolicella. The irony here is that this wine is made by the four Castagnedi brothers (Tiziano, Armando, Paolo, and Massimo), any one of which would could be that nice person.

There is a time and a place for a wine of simple goodness, in which the joy of the wine is not in deep intellectual thought but rather laughter and friends and good food at hand. For that, a fine Valpolicella is ideal (and thus a common wine for us to drink on The Wine Company's patio in the Spring and Fall). Aromas of bing cherry, black raspberry, and a touch of coughdrop (just in the aroma, not on the palate). As medium bodied as medium bodied can be, and backed by the acidity that is the hallmark of Valpolicella. (A great Valpolicella, served at the right temperature -- a touch cool but not cold -- will cause your mouth re-salivate.) Try with delicious cheeses of Northern Italy, such as camosico d'oro, which is an Italian camembret as tasty as its French counterpart.
- Wine tasting note by JK, August 6, 2013

Food Pairings

Local charcuterie and pork-butchers’ products (bacon fat, headcheese, bacon), first courses of pasta, rice and risottos; spaghetti with salted sardines, soups, noodles with chicken livers, vegetable soup, Mediterranean fish soup, pasta and bean soup,

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