Hundreds Of Fruits, One Disguise
TASTING NOTES:
Bruno Giacosa Nebbiolo D’Alba Vigna Valmaggiore from Piemonte, Italy - “Red garnet in color with orange hints. The nose presents intense notes of violet and ripe strawberry. An excellent, well-integrated tannin structure accompanied by good acidity providing freshness.” (AbV 15%, pH 3.53)
Bruno Giacosa Dolcetto D’Alba DOC from Piemonte, Italy - “Lively ruby red with purple highlights. The nose is intense and complex with notes of fresh red fruit and blackberries. The palate is full and balanced with a good structure.” (AbV 14%, pH 3.64)
VINEYARD: Vines 45 years.
BARRELS: 27 days in stainless steel vats
PAIRS WITH: N/A
THAT REMINDS ME OF: Strawberry.
Here’s a fun bit of botanical treachery: botanists don’t classify strawberries as true berries at all. A “true berry” has to develop from a single flower with one ovary — grapes qualify, so do tomatoes, so does a banana (yes, a banana). A strawberry is instead something called an “accessory fruit,” where the red flesh you’re eating is a swollen flower stem, and the actual fruits are those tiny yellow specks studding the outside — each one its own dry, seed-like fruit called an achene. So a strawberry isn’t one fruit at all. It’s hundreds of them, wearing a very convincing disguise.
Which makes grapes the quiet overachievers of the produce aisle — no costume, no PR campaign, just a straightforward single-ovary fruit that also happens to be sturdy enough to survive fermentation, oak, and fourteen months of patience. Strawberries get the summer shortcake. Grapes get the vintage.
ICYMI, you have two choices:
Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from this sale, the page you’re on right now, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year (October)!
Want Protected Summer Shipping and don’t think heat will be a problem? Order from the sale linked here! We’ll still try to get them to you with as little travel time as we can.
Some places get absurdly hot during the Summer, and in particularly unpleasant circumstances, it can damage a wine. Most people get theirs no problem, but there are a couple each Summer that fall victim to the sun no matter how fast we get them to you. If you’ve experienced that before or are afraid it’ll happen to you, we’ll hold your order for you until October, if you order from the Summer Hold sale. We are reasonably sure things will be cooler then.
