This was a very special treat for me indeed to meet Luca the owner of BOSCARELLI ... I told him as I met him that I both knew very well as sold quite well his wines. I also told him that I had one male customer ( Tom is his name I believe ) in particular, a local college professor here that only drank his wines and that each and every time that he came to the store we always talked BOSCARELLI from the start of the visit when he walked through our front door till them moment he exited again much later with a bottle of BOSCARELLI tucked under his arms securely and a smile on his face. What I forgot to mention was the time that he actually brought a bottle of BOSCARELLI with him and we stood at our tasting table and talked about wine, life , all things good and enjoyed our glass of BOSCARELLI. Here again everything started and ended BOSCARELLI. Nice ...
It was many years ago that Franceen Khang then with Neil Empson brought me up to speed with BOSCARELLI. That must have been in 2001 or 2002 and ever since we have represented the BOSCARELLI wines : sometimes two of them and not just one. It always depended on the moment and which represented a better value/ which one was available at the time? Sometimes we had to wait for the wines to come back into stock as they always get very good reviews and sometimes that can quickly clear them off our shelf as well as the Bacchus warehouse.
On this occasion we tried the 2006 Vino Nobile Rosso di Montepulciano. I already mentioned this in my store email that I wrote on this past Tuesday, January 26th, 2010. That is when Gary Diamond of Neil Empson brought owner Luca De Ferrari by. I love Luca's smile in the photograph above. I took it as one of the very last pictures. I realized that I needed a close-up as they really do help to cement the moment for me in these wonderful and often too quick visits where I get to meet the people behind the wines that I have enjoyed selling for many years already.
I do get stars in my eyes when I meet them. I know that I often smile very broadly as I am truly happy to be meeting and making their acquaintance finally! It's a pleasure and an honor and a treat as they have already given so much to our vast and varied and wonderful wine world.
I wrote about the visit in the store email that I sent to our customers around 5 PM that Tuesday afternoon. It is now two day's later on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 here at home in northern Virginia as I type this and get ready to post it at least in a first-draft form later today. I had plans of doing it last night but that just did not happen.
In the email I spoke about this tasty and refined 2006 Vino Nobile Rosso De Montepulciano dry red that was very stylish and refined and very beautifully focused and packages as it spread it's gossameric ( is this even a word? probably not but I like it anyway ) wings over the full Monty of my palate. I really enjoyed it : I liked how subtle it was and how it gave up some flavors and still managed to give me the very real sense that it was also holding some back? So In continued to sip and to listen and talk and snap these artsy photos with my relatively new Canon digital camera that I like very much.
We will buy this wine and perhaps some of the 2004 Rosso Vino Nobile ( the order is already in ) if there is any left. I believe that we may be able to buy just a little more that a case of it soon. The 2006 will be ON SALE when I do get it and I think it will be around $35-$40 instead of around $45-$50. I will include the exact price soon as I cannot remember it here now at home.
I have more to say and include here but I am at home now on Monday, January 31st, 2010 and I want to post this tonight now at 10:46 Pm as it is late and I will add more tomorrow when back at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 Tel : 202-363-4265 sales@clevelandparkwine.com www.clevelandparkwine.com ) where I manage the wine department. I have now for almost ten years : how they have flown by so quickly!
So, stay-tuned to the finished post this week as I add some final notes over the next day or so. In the meantime enjoy some of these photos that I have taken : many with an artsy bent that I hope you enjoy or at least grow to enjoy in time. Cheers, TONY
P.S. For more information go to : BOSCARELLI , Luca De Ferrari, Via di Montenero, 28 - 53045 Cervognano di Montelpulciano ( Siena) Tel : +39 0578 767277 - Fax: +39 348 4000968 info@poderiboscarelli.com www.poderiboscarelli.com.
Luca wrote in our guest book :
" I am proud to be here to present my Vino Nobile 06 in this special store where I found Anthony that while we taste the wine shoot special photos to my wine in a different way that I never see. " Thank you Luca for your kind words. It was indeed a great treat for me to meet you and taste with you.
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