It was nice to see Jim Hutton and Arielle Monaco as they came with the Italian brand manager for these wines that we tasted in mid May at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits. Jim Hutton works for Vias Imports and sells us some of the finest Italian wines that we have at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connectivut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel : 202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com ).
On this afternoon Jim was showing the wines of : FATTORIA DEL CERRO ( 2005 Vino Nobile ), COLPETRONE ( Umbria ) and LA PODERINA ( Tuscany). I tasted a grand Montefalco 2004 Sagrantino, a red blend 2005 from Montefalco ( both from COLPERTONE ), the 2005 Vino Nobile of FATTORIA DEL CERRO and an unbelievable ( from an early sample bottle, the wine was still in Italy ) of the LA PODERINA Brunello di Montalcino that blew me away,around,up and down, thrashed-bashed me to the ground, beat -pounded me senseless and sung to me such divine, sweet ditties and lullabies that I was rendered dumb and speechless and happy as a baby after feeding. I didn't even have to be burped, I wanted to hold it all in - let nothing go, hold that " pause ", keep all this wonderment and bedevilment and fun to myself : all mine, all mine! Don't even think of it Mister! I loved it, and it was tasting so grand at such a young stage. Jim mentioned this at least twice as he said emphatically that it would be one that many could approach and really enjoy at a young age. I will have to buy some for the store : it's quite reasonable considering how much wine they could fit into that 750 ml. bottle. Cheers and kudos to all these three producers : classic Italian red wine that was all made to be enjoyed with food, family, friends, business associates and " new " acquaintances.
Arielle that works now for Country Vintners ( used to be the Henry Wine Group ) will taste at least one of these ( I believe the FATTORIA DEL CERRO ) at her next scheduled in-store wine-tasting at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits. I think that that is in another week or so.
I will add more info about all these wines as I have time. In the meantime enjoy these photos that I took while I tasted these really superb, traditional-style Italian reds from Tuscany and Umbria. Cheers and thanks for coming by Jim to taste me on these. I'm glad you now have a smaller territory and will be able to spend more time at Cleveland Park. I look forward to our next tasting : and to Arielle's next tasting that will be your selections of ALL VIAS wines. I know it will be a grand success. Take care, TONY
Enjoy, TONY
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