Four to six times a year I am lucky to have the best and most knowledgeable Italian wine palette visit me at the store and we taste wines together. Jeannie Rogers is the former co-owner of Il Capriccio in Waltham, Ma. and now co-owner of the tiny but spectacular wine import firm Adonna Imports. She represents her friends in Italy that just happen to make some of the most amazing wines in the world. The smallest of these great producers is Rovi. He is so tiny, he doesn't have a garage so he uses his neighbors garage to make his hand-picked wines. I am very lucky to get at least one 6 pack of his wines. Sometimes I get more, but not always. His wines are not cheap, $45-60 a bottle. His wines need to age a year or two minimum to show off their greatness. Right now I have two wines from him. The local red grape Marzemino, sort of a cross between a Rhone and a Burgundy, but no description can do it justice I would serve with a ham dinner. The other is a Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. This wine needs to cellar two more years, but already you can taste amazing complexities of flavors that scream to be served with lamb or game meat. You can taste the wildness of the forest in the wine.
If you cannot leave these wines in your cellar for at least a year, don't buy them. If you have the patience, you will be rewarded.
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