Community Tasting Note

Charlie Pendejo wrote:

Thursday, November 26, 2015 - In the two years since drinking my first bottle, I'd not been drawn to open the remaining bottle - until our 2015 Thanksgiving with "wildly international" theme. With some oddball food pairings (representing Mexico, India, Persia, Peru, China, Israel, Uzbekistan, and a few funky fusions), why not this oddball hard-to-pair Piemontese?

And, ya know - it shone, working at least as well if not better than its comrades-in-vino from Rheingau, Sonoma, and Hungary. It was companionable with some fairly tough customers like an assertive ancho-based gravy and roasted squash with five-spice and Sriracha; and FANTASTIC with braised apples/sour cherry with a healthy dose of curry (yes, again, *this wine adores curry*) powder, and also with the Kermani Polow, a pilaf with lots of pistachios, cardamom, dill, and crucially, rose petals which matched the wine's rosy florality.

This is the rare red wine you don't want to serve with a slab of red meat: it actually probably won't go that well, and it's an enormous wasted opportunity. This bottling is a *specialist* of the highest order just waiting to excel where other reds fear to tread.

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