Wicked thunderstorms with wind and rain last night brought in some nice cool dry Canadian air. Windows are open, breeze is blowin' and the grill is goin'. The night is perfect for red.
Grilled some chicken kielbasi, if I was 20 years younger it would have been pork, ahhh, age, and drank the Sanguineto Rosso di Montepulciano 2007. Montepulciano IS the most confusing wine in Italy. The most prolific red grape in Italy is Montepulciano, except that it doesn't grow in the TOWN of Montepulciano. The town is in Tuscany and the grape Prugnolo Gentile is grown there. The grape is a relative of the Sangiovese, the grape of Chianti and Montalcino. Prugnolo Gentile has that slight sour cherry flavor that is perfect with grilled sausages. The Sanguineto is made by two sisters that run the farm by themselves. Only tiny amounts of the wine come into the USA and I am lucky to be on their list. The wine retails for $19.99. Open the bottle at least a half hour before serving. Perfect timing is to open the wine and then light the grill.
If you want a splurge bottle the sisters also make in more limited quantities a Vino Nobile de Montepulciano at $34.99 a bottle. This wine is aged one more year in wood barrels and needs a few more years in the cellar to show off its best flavors. And then in miniscule quantities and only in the best of the best years, they make a Vino Nobile de Montepulciano Riserva. Aged another extra year in wood and requires more years in the cellar. I only have one case of this, a measly 12 bottles at $49.99 a bottle, but you have to ask. I don't display it.
OOOh, now that would be a fun trio to bring to a tasting. And informative too.
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