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Please join us Saturday as the "Vermouth King" Todd Schneider is back by popular demand. He'll also pour a great Priorat and Italian vino from his excellent portfolio. You certainly do not want to miss a tasting with Todd- very educational and lots of fun!
Todd will pour the following:
2021 Casa Gran Del Siurana - Priorat GR-174
On the outskirts of Bellmunt del Priorat, on the banks of the River Siurana, stands the property popularly known as Casa Gran. This historic, three hundred year old building was previously home to the Carthusian monks of Scala Dei, the monastic order which introduced viticulture into the area in the 12th century.
The Casa Gran del Siurana project began in the year 2000 to produce the best possible wines in Priorat from scratch selecting the land with most potential, choosing the most suitable vine stocks and cultivating them carefully until the optimum moment for harvesting, then deciding on the best means of vinification and ageing.
| Sale $19.99 | SKU 95128 |
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Grasso, Fratelli - Langhe DOC Trej
The brothers Luigi and Alfredo Grasso started in the vineyard in 1970 and continue to actively cultivate 14 hectares. The Grasso Fratelli farm is located in Valgrande in the municipality of Treiso, in the heart of the Langhe, a typical area known for the cultivation of the vines from which the best and prestigious Piedmontese wines are born. In this area, nowadays very popular also for its splendid nature, the Nebbiolo grape variety from which Barbaresco wine originates is cultivated with particular care.
| Sale $18.99 | SKU 95015 |
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Bordiga Bianco di Torino
Bordiga was started in 1888 by Pietro Bordiga, a bartender in Torino when the city was the epicenter of Italian spirts and cocktail culture. He decided to locate his distillery in the small town of Cuneo because it offered him a strategic position a little over an hour south of Torino, and also close to the Occitan Alps, where he was sourcing his wild botanicals. The climate there, influenced equally by altitude and proximity to the Mediterranean sea, creates herbs that are particularly rich in essential oils and aromas. His greatgrandson, also named Pietro Bordiga, still lives above the distillery. The Bianco Vermouth was Pietro's first recipe, created in 1888, and is still in use today. Tremendously versatile in cocktails, it can modify any style of drink and pairs with spirits from gin to whiskey to calvados. Citrus, baking spice and floral elements define the palate. As with all Bordiga vermouths, freshness and acidity set it apart from others in the category, allowing the botanicals to shine.
| Sale $27.99 | SKU 93013 |
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Macchia Mediterraneo Bianco
Emilio Rocchino came to Sardinia from Salerno in 2006 looking for work and began bartending on the Costa Smeralda, a popular vacation spot for the rich and famous. He went on to bartend in Milan before returning to Sardinia and working with a spirits producer making various traditional Sardinian spirits. It was here that his creativity flourished and he began to develop his own recipes. According to Emilio, when vermouth was invented in Torino in 1786, Piedmont was under the kingdom of Sardinia, and wine from Sardinia was used in the original recipe. He nods to that tradition by using wine from both Piedmont and Sardinia in his vermouths. Named after the Mistral, a fierce north-westerly wind that blows in the spring, Macchia's white vermouth is based on Vermentino and Moscato wines from Sardinia (Olbia is a center of Vermentino production). The 18 botanical substances inidiviually infused in pure grain alcohol before being added to the blend include myrtle* leaves, flowers and berries; a very distinctive local citrus type called Pompia*; and elderflower*, chamomile*, helichrysum,* licorice*, mint*, juniper berry*, orange, and lemon. Finished alcohol 18%. Cane sugar is used for sweetness, 160 grams per liter, which is lower than most white and red vermouth on the market.
| Sale $32.99 | SKU 93195 |
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Macchia Mediterraneo Rosso
The myrtle berry (Mirto in Italian) is Sardinia's most famous botanical, used in the famous Mirto liqueur, and it provides both color and flavor to this assertive, distinctive vermouth. Other botanicals, all individually infused in pure grain alcohol, include wormwood*, gentian root*, helichrysum*, rhubarb-root, licorice*, pompia*, cinchona, mint*, vanilla, mace, cardamom, lemon-peel, and bitter orange; the wine base is Moscato from Sardinia and the non-aromatic Cortese from Piedmont. Finished alcohol 18%. Cane sugar is used for sweetness, 150 grams per liter, which is lower than most white and red vermouth on the market.
| Sale $32.99 | SKU 49316 |
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