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 the sale linked here, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year!
- Want it shipped now? Every package during the summer will have protected temp control ground shipping for much of the country that takes longer but will ensure safe delivery. Expect up to two weeks for delivery. Now through the September 12th offer.
