weekend wines

The first week in March in Japan, People can get some days off. We call it "Golden week", meaning like wonderful days off? Anyway, We are looking forward to this week in every year. So, I opened some wines without the anxiety of tomorrow work! The left was an Italian white wine. It smelt like the scent of a perfume, flowery, and bitterness. I loved it. the right was pino. I wonder why the name was "clos blanc"? Was this place used to made the grape for white wine? This wine had nice acidity even though I've heard of 2003 was quite hotter than usual. I wanna try this once more, but there seems hard to find it in Japan.

Rinascimento 2000

I've sipped a glass of wine yesterday night. One of Dievole, Rinascimento 2000. This wine composed of a selection of Tuscan native grapes from different vineyards. It's easy to drink. Firstly, It tastes and smelt like jam, I didn't mean that sweet, fruity and juicy, but not so fresh of course. and I've sipped a glass of grappa which flavored with camomile, marolo grappa e camomilla. That's also nice. It smelt strong camomile flavor. I liked it.

concabianco

I've drunk a glass of Italian white wine yesterday night with a risotto. The winery is Poderi Foglia and It's the first time. It tasted rich flavor and nice soft acidity. It went together with the risotto. risotto was simmered with a whole squid and little herb like anise. I always feel a muscat and eatable grapes(which means not for making wine) when I ate squid dishes like risotto with squid ink. I don't know why. Might be only my feeling.

Ca'visco 2006

Wow, This wine is superb! It's nicer than ever. It smells honey, pear, citrus, vanilla, and chamomile. and It has nice bitterness and acidity too. I like this wine. I drunk it with pasta, linguine piccole with tiny clams and broccoli sauce. It went together tonight.
Before sleep, I've sipped a grappa tonight. It's also made by Coffele. It's elegant. It's a nice grappa, but little more expensive than I expected. I prefer little more wilder though, It's not bad at all. It's an elegant and delicate grappa.

coffele

a soave classico 2006. This is one of few wineries that I know and be familiar. This is the first time to taste the wine in this year. It has nice acidity and bitter. and smelt like green apple, pineapple(anana), and little peach(not much ripen). It's not watery. I think the grape would be ripen richly. I will try upper wine, Superiore, "Ca Visco" next time.

belisario

A Italian white wine that I drunk on Friday night at my favorite bar Italiano, bancone yohachimaru. Belisario(Somehow, I couldn't see the site on Firefox. IE was okay). the variety was verdicchio. I don't know that I've tasted this variety before. I liked this wine.

dinner out

I had dinner out tonight. but sorry, I forgot to take the photo of dishes. at least, I took the photo of pasta, wine and dessert. The pine was a souvenir from a person. This pine is called "peach pine". She had a short vacation at Okinawa. you can rip down it by hand. The wine was an Italian wine in somewhere of north region. I think it's similar with some Alsace wines I've tasted before. nice wine. the pasta was paccheri with fish ragu and mint leaves. I've enjoyed the dinner.

le chiare viognier

I've sipped a white and red glass of wine tonight. I liked this viognier, maurigi le chiare viognier 2005. It smelt like green tea. I don't know that people feels that way though. It went together with marinated Pacific saury and nanohana(field mustard).
Quercus? It smelt like plum. nice tannin. not thicker than the color.