La Pizza Fresca Ristorante NYC
Tasted Friday, October 21, 2016 by swapdoc with 309 views
An outstanding wine tasting dinner made particularly enjoyable by the company of wine aficionados and the gracious hospitality of the hosts -- thank you Brad and Magda!. La Pizza Fresca Ristorante, a true NYC gem, brings together wine lovers with the world class winemakers such as Giancarlo Pacenti. Giancarlo was a terrific speaker and a passionate advocate for his style of wine making. It was a treat to taste the older Siro Pacenti vintages as well as to compare side by side the more recent Pelagrilli and the Vecchio Vigne lines.
2014 Siro Pacenti Rosso di Montalcino
Italy, Tuscany, Montalcino, Rosso di Montalcino
The wine is made from the youngest planted vines, up to 4 yrs old. Strong vanilla oak aromatics upfront. In the mouth, the oak is less pronounced and instead the wine has an almost barbera like taste profile of mineral red wild fruit with a hint of a clay like earthiness. Almost stopped noticing the oak -- that is until taking a first sip of the '99 Pacenti Brunello. Afterwards, this Rosso is oaky and painfully young once again.
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