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If you're crazy about Italian wines, like me, then sometimes you just get a hankering for the taste of a particular grape or region or type of wine.
So, I'm going to pose a question and give you MY answer to it. Feel free to jump in with your choice!
"Tonight I'd really love a nice...
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo."
So go ahead, weigh in:
"Tonight I'd really love a nice_______."
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moscato d'asti for me!
Posted by: Ronald | June 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM
1999 Valentini Trebbiano (and a fish taco, please). Instead I will be drinking stale beer at Bordello in downtown LA.
Posted by: Jeremy Parzen | June 20, 2008 at 12:44 PM
A nice Prosecco rosato?
Posted by: D | June 20, 2008 at 03:19 PM
I have tuna marinating in a pureed Mediterranean brew so either a Nero d'Avola, an Etna Rosso or a Strappatto.
Posted by: Marco | June 20, 2008 at 03:23 PM
Is Strappatto a Frappato made by Strappo?
Posted by: th | June 20, 2008 at 03:32 PM
Moscato d'asti - because I have to wake up early tomorrow and prefer a lower alcohol wine :-)
Posted by: Tyler Balliet | June 20, 2008 at 04:39 PM
I want a Nerello Mascalese, please. Because a) I like to say it and B) I had one once and wish I could find another bottle of it!
Posted by: Dr. Debs | June 20, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Interesting and (mostly) varied answers, folks.
I hear you, Debs, I am definitely in a red wine mood -- gnam! (Italian for yum. Sounds like it too.)
Posted by: th | June 20, 2008 at 05:23 PM
A beer
to wash all that Chicken fried steak and frito pie down with....
but I'm afraid I'll have to drink some Sancerre, Gevrey Chambertin, Arneis and Barolo later tonight at a dinner I am talking at.
get this, strappo-wappo, the talk is called The Italian influence on French Cuisine, puhlease. ( not my title- but it'll be fun-gnam)
Posted by: AC | June 20, 2008 at 06:11 PM
To be sure, a Frog did not come up with that one.
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Yours,
Strappo-wappo
Posted by: th | June 20, 2008 at 06:26 PM
I'd go with schiava but that's SO last week. This week: Valtellina!
Posted by: wolfgang | June 20, 2008 at 06:34 PM
Wolfie, Schiava? Valtellina? You' re too hip.
Now I do feel like a real old stick in the mud with my brutish Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. (I bought and opened Zaccarini's tonight because it was the **only** one available at First Avenue Vintners. (Someone needs to sell them something more imaginative.)
Posted by: th | June 20, 2008 at 06:38 PM
All hipness is relative. Montepuliciano, being last night's beverage of choice (Vallevò, a delicious cheapy) was quite the pairing with homemade pizza. Sort of the southern barbera, really, a vitis socialist perhaps, and for being a wine for the people, it has my never-ending respect. Had a delightful aglianico-montepuliciano blend from Molise recently; now is that hip?
Posted by: wolfgang | June 20, 2008 at 08:24 PM
My spelling sucks, btw. I'm especially loose with the 'i' sometimes.
Posted by: wolfgang | June 20, 2008 at 08:25 PM
Ah, I had already blogged about what I wanted tonight before I even saw your posting. How convenient that it fits your theme! Didn't you know today was national Grignolino day? (at least in San Francisco, where it's HOT today!)
Posted by: Doug Cook | June 20, 2008 at 08:44 PM
Mr Seersucker, in fact you are right, again and toujours. Tis a frapatto honed by strappo himself.
Posted by: Marco | June 20, 2008 at 09:07 PM
Doug, thanks for the nice mention on ablegrape...Grignolino Day? Ugh. Not real fond of that one.
Posted by: th | June 21, 2008 at 07:14 AM
Terry, since you left summer has arrived with a bang. We've been drinking reds forever so tonight any crisp, fresh, unoaked white from anywhere in the north. Though, maybe that vermentino from Sardinia...
Posted by: michele colline | June 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM
i'd love the one thing i can't find here: a REAL greco di tufo.
chiedo troppa?
Posted by: tracie b | June 21, 2008 at 03:19 PM
i'd love the one thing i can't find here: a REAL greco di tufo.
chiedo troppo?
Posted by: tracie b | June 21, 2008 at 03:20 PM
sorry about the duplicate, for some reason i put an a on the end of troppo. maybe it's too much greca di tufa, and not enough greco.
Posted by: tracie b | June 21, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Tracele, crunk already? Tsk tsk.
Fear not, cara mia, there will be at least one G di T coming to our shores soon. I'll keep you posted!
Posted by: terence | June 21, 2008 at 04:14 PM
A Tocai Friulano! www.theitaliancellar.blogspot.com
Posted by: jpk | June 29, 2008 at 08:01 PM