The Case Wine Life Blog
If wineries truly (hard seltzers are canned so they do not affect the environment as much) care about the environment then glass wine bottles need to get lighter and slowly phased out. There should be an exception for wines made for aging as glass is the best inert material for such wine. But other than that it is long overdue to pass on glass.
To invoke Fifty Cent in his classic Many Men, “Like Paulie in Goodfellas, You Can Call [Antinori] The Don.” Antinori being Piero Antinori, the patriarchal leader of Marchesi Antinori, the Italian wine company. The famous rap bar applied prior to Piero Antinori acquiring Chateau St. Michelle’s majority stake in the Napa Valley icon, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, earlier this month. If being a Don means that you are Italian and run shit like storied Napa Valley wineries. If that’s the case Piero Antinori says piece of cake in his deep Darth Vader like voice (literally, listen to any interview) while piloting his own burgundy-colored (coincidence?) helicopter and overlooking his many wineries.
The wine clubs that we are interested in are not speakeasy spots like the cover image. The ones that we are concerned with are the wine clubs that date back to the 1950s and 1960s in Europe. In the iconic wine countries like France, Italy and Germany, wine clubs were initially formed by groups of friends who loved wine and met up regularly to taste and talk wine. Something like: “Hey, Francois, Francesca and Franz come over on Friday night and let’s taste that new Rioja.”
As resellers of wine for some time now, we have received frantic emails from customers in the middle of night making sure that the wine they ordered is of a particular vintage. We welcome these inquiries because we want you to get exactly what you want. However, vintages usually do not matter and the answer to this just like the answer to ninety nine questions out of a hundred is money.
Okay, it was going to get really interesting if the Medici’s of Emilia who ignored lingering clamoring for sweeter Lambrusco and reclaimed Lambrusco from root beer drinkers were related to the same Medici’s from Florence who produced two popes. But there is no relation between the families despite sharing the same surnames. Nonetheless, Medici Ermete Concerto Lambrusco is the perfect wine to enjoy in Florida’s steamy summers that call for light bodied reds. (Yes, we understand that steamy summers are not only specific to Florida but we just got back from Orlando.)
Historically, wine possesses complexity and acidity for balance. The underlying problem with sweet wine is that it’s sweet–lacking in balance.