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✨🌫 VIVA il COL FONDO 🌫✨ 🙏❤️ @zac

✨🌫 VIVA il COL FONDO 🌫✨

🙏❤️ @zacharysussman @punch_drink for including us in this piece.

🥂💗 @levignedialice for the stellar recommendation of *A Fondo*

🎵: Donald Byrd - places & spaces

#colfondo #adorocolfondo #winefeels #wineanima #portovinoitaliano
#vininaturali #senzasolfitiaggiunti #prosecco

Me and the kids whipped up the pantry pasta specia

Me and the kids whipped up the pantry pasta special: spaghetti aglio oilo e peperoncino.

Trick is three cloves of garlic per person in boiling water for 3 five-minute rounds. You need to change the water each round. Use your immersion blender to make an emulsified sauce of the garlic, olio, and a dash of pulverized peperoncino.

#italia #materiaprima #kidscooking

Baby soft shell crabs from the Veneto called 'moec

Baby soft shell crabs from the Veneto called 'moeche.' These are without a doubt one of my favorite foods, and super paired with Alice's Colfondo.

Grazie @levignedialice for the foto, post idea, ajd of course the wine. Check out her longer explanation in italiano @levignedialice

#italia #veneto #materiaprima #colfondo #portovino #portovinoitaliano

What a lovely grappolo @mircomariotti !!! This wi

What a lovely grappolo @mircomariotti !!!

This will be part of a new sparkling orange wine Mirco's producing called Delta. It's a homage to Delta culture, delta people like his, and delta blues, which is a passion of his. Small big world out there!

#deltablues #beachvinesbeachwines #portovinoitaliano #bolle #orangewine

New FUSO Bianco Siciliano 2020 in the making from

New FUSO Bianco Siciliano 2020 in the making from @dario_vini_mortellito

Certified Organic native Sicilian grapes, with a little bucce/ skin maceration.

Baby Boss likes Baby Orange Wines!

#babyboss #fuso #sicilia #italia #organicwines #realwines #notankfarms #portovino #portovinoitaliano

Things are starting to ferment for 2020 vendemmia.

Things are starting to ferment for 2020 vendemmia. That's native yeasts working on the bucce / skins of a new Orange wine from Bulli called Julius.

#orangewine #vinaturel #portovinoitaliano #portovino #collipiacentini #bulli

I am not for the pseudo-romanace of 'if it grows t

I am not for the pseudo-romanace of 'if it grows together it goes togehter,' and some of my best matches aren't dishes and wines from same place.

Yet, viva! the exception. Vesuvian volcano wines with a misleadingly name local Napoli pasta dish called Pasta alla Genovese.

Grazie @cantinematrone / Andrea for the stunning 2017 Matrone Bianco and the recco for a pairing.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genovese_(sugo)

https://portovinoitaliano.com/producers/cantine-matrone/

#vesuvio #vinnaturel #portovinoitaliano #pasta #italia #yummy #falsefriends

Alice Osé [goes] Nature… @levignedialice The

Alice Osé [goes] Nature… @levignedialice

The historic bottling of Alice Osé Brut is now Alice Osé Brut Nature...with more of that acid-hound grape Marzemino. Both fermentations are with native yeasts, no dosage, and of course it’s vinifed dry alla Nature, with no residual sugar.

It’s shockingly different from old bottling, so we’ve supplied emergency space blankets.

Seems like everyone in Italy now makes a sparkling wines to complete their line up, so instead of the norm: delicious-lean-mineral-chuggable-natty-goodness, we’ll leave some objective details:

40 year old vino Marzemino
3 months on fine lees
8.89 gr. /l. of acidity (hello brother Mosel!)
5.6 bars of pressure (petnat =< 2.5)
0 g. residual sugar
30g. SO2 added before bottling

#pressure #acid #spaceblankets #ose #portovinoitaliano #portovino #vinonaturale #notpetnat

‘CALA’ *wine feels*
⚡️💦⚡️💦⚡️💦

DARIO SERRENTINO ‘CALA’ TERRE SICILIANE 2019:
Rosso Siciliano with Nero d'Avola and a dollop of Grillo. Made by Dario Serrentino from Franco Scire’s organic certified vineyards and cantina, located in the contrade of San Lorenzo and Buonivini in Val di Noto.

‘Cala’ is the word for grape in the Sicilan dialect.
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“By day the hot sun fermented us,” as T.E: Lawrence wrote of the Arabian desert, but also equally applicable to the Val di Noto in Sicily’s sun beaten southeastern tip.

Winemaker Dario Serrentino believes that the desert-like calcareous soils and cool night air here help temper alcohol and give lift to his wine. And so it would seem with ‘CALA,’ which drinks like a welcome oasis of shade, restorative and invigorating.

We were in agreement with Dario in wanting 'CALA' Nero d'Avola to be light-on-its-feet drinky, but not lose sight of the telltale Nero d’Avola warm spice-and-earth. Dario followed Franco’s vineyards and had him pick just a bit early, and added a punchy 10% of Grillo grapes.

Upon first taste of ‘CALA,’ oh la la... we were transported away from the expected Frankincense scented church pews of customary Nero d’Avola, delivered instead to a bath all’aperto on Siciliy's Ionian coast!

Balmy and salty sea-breeze, with moreish small red and black berries, fresh red plums, citrusy spice Rooibos tea. Continuing that sea-breeze note, there's always that distinctive anchovy / iodine from wines from Noto.
@dario_vini_mortellito
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#sicilia #vinonaturale #portovino #portovinoitaliano #winefeels #vinnaturel

Just landed: new FUSO wine from Sicily called CALA

Just landed: new FUSO wine from Sicily called CALA. It's from a project we're doing with Dario Serentino from @dario_vini_mortellito. Grazie @bartsasso for the authentic yet original lines on the label.

SUNDAY @ 2pm Join @flatironwines as they go LIVE

SUNDAY @ 2pm
Join @flatironwines as they go LIVE from the vineyard with Dario Serrentino of Mortellito @dario_vini_mortellito ✨
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Val di Noto sits in the southeast corner of the Sicilian triangle, dipping down to the latitude of North Africa. In spite of the warm climate, the local varieties (especially Grillo and Frappato) and white limestone soils are capable of producing balanced wines with tension and moderate alcohol.
After years of selling off his organic grapes to naturalista winemakers, Dario started to vinify and bottle his own wines in 2014 as Mortellito. Dario is a naturalista as well, focusing on making clean wines that taste extreme only in their deliciousness. He organically farms his family’s 23 hectares, 15 of which are under vine; the rest are a mix of ancient olive groves and heirloom almond varieties. His wines have a tempered hedonism, a mix of ‘taking’ in the sun (as the Italian idiom goes), and then ‘taking a bath’ in the salty-cool sea.
...and Dario happens to know plenty about the sea, being that he is a scuba instructor on the side 💦👨‍🌾💦🍷💦
Andiamo! 🔥

🎵: Heartbreaker - Mariah Carey (ft. Jay-Z)
#valdinoto #organicviticulture #moscatodinoto #vininaturali #naturalwines #realwine #ilmortellito #portovinoitaliano #scubalife

Both were excellent. Yet, the De Fermo @de_fermo M

Both were excellent. Yet, the De Fermo @de_fermo Montepulciano, hula-hoped with an 18 hour decant, showed me Where the Wild Things Roam more with my cast-iron seared bistecca.

Grazie @_tessdrumheller for believing and encouraging me to the 'wild' part of Italy.

#wherethewildthingsare #italia #italianonfrenchissimosarebbebetterissimo

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