Montesodi Riserva 2007 by Frescobaldi - That's life!

Dear Wine Lovers,

Autumn is our season and I'm just reminiscing over of my favourite wine ever.

Today I'm coming back on well-known territory and I'm going to write about a Wine that I had presented to you two years ago.

If you really love wines and if you really want to live a magical experience without spending a fortune, pls listen to me and go online to buy this miracle in a bottle.

Last saturday one of my best friends visited me with a surprise, a basket of wonderful fresh porcini mushrooms (see pic), here in Italy in this period it hasn't rained enough and mushrooms are unavailable; but my friend Claudio is a super-hero and he found some of nature's marvellous gift.

Non-scheduled lunch, with a special friend, I have to invent something.

In this 1 hour we sat down tasting an appetizing lunch and first of all "smelling" a unbelievable wine named...

Ladies & Gentleman and the Oscar goes to (suspence, music growing up with strings, horns, timpani):

Montesodi Riserva 2007 by Marchese Frscobaldi

Five minutes of standing ovation, as for the Big Luciano Pavarotti at Madison after "Nessun dorma... Vincerooo".

Ok, I know that a wine like this isn't the best match for a dish of "Paccheri with Porcini mushrooms" but I wanted to taste that wine and share it with my friend so, I dared and I won!

Here we have "the Wine" in my opinion; a Sangiovese cru selection of Montesodi Vineyards, in the Chianti Rufina area, near Florence.

400 meters above sea level, here there is the best environment to produce one of the best wines in the world.

Montesodi is a King, a really opulent wine, with a dark-inky ruby red impenetrable colour, leave it rest 10 mins in the glass and then smell "the dream", you'll find all the aromas unique and rare, you'll fall in love just smelling it (no tasting notes today - you have to try it and write me).

Tasting Montesodi you'll live a thrilling experience, rich, powerful, dense, exciting. The finish is very very long and unforgettable.

For my palate, this is one of the best wine in the world, a wine to celebrate life... and every day should be good to do it.

If you need some suggestion on how to buy this gem, write me in private and I'll give you some good web-addresses.

I hope to see you here for my next review, I really appreciate your interest in wine and your friendship.

Live your life deeply and do it with style.

Angelo D'Alessandro

thedeliciousworld@gmail.com

Rosso di Montefalco by Arnaldo Caprai - Regular but talented wine for all budget!

Dear Wine Lovers,

After a lot of requests, I decided to cite at least one regular wine per month, with "regular" I mean all those kind of wines that are found on the supermarket shelves.

There is a rule in my mind, also shared with a lot of wine lovers, that there is no decent wine above 7-8 euros per bottle. So I'd like to share my personal opinion with a fast recap.

Prices between:

300-7000 EUROS = wines for crazy-insane people

150-300 EUROS = wines for rich people

80-150 EUROS = wines for experts or fake experts with great self-esteem

40-80 EUROS = wines for wine lovers with an enthusiasm crisis

7-40 EUROS = wines for those of us who has understand everything

2-7 EUROS = unleaded fuel

Don't worry, there are a lot of good wines for daily use, easy to find and that you can enjoy without spend too much money.

Today I'd like to introduce you one of my favourite cheap wines, really well-done and with a price between 9 and 11 euros (depending on the distributor):

Rosso di Montefalco by Arnaldo Caprai

A lot of you know for sure that when I say "Montefalco" ( Umbria hills) that its one of the best place in the world to see marvellous landscapes and taste one of the most ancient, native and gorgeous wines of the world based on "Sagrantino" grape.

The father of this wine is the famous: "Sagrantino di Montefalco", here one of mine reviews on this gem:

http://wineloverscorner.blogspot.com/2009/11/sagrantino-di-montefalco-arnaldo-caprai.html

Here we have the little brother, "Rosso di Montefalco", that also includes the Sagrantino grape but for the minor part, because it consists of the Sangiovese grape (70%), Sagrantino (15%) and Merlot (15%). Sangiovese gives power, Sagrantino gives character and Merlot gives rotundity.

The colour is wonderful and will make you happily satisfied, its really brilliant ruby red, pls look at its colour for 30 seconds and then put all your nose in the glass (trust me) and smell; intense aromas, the wine is young, fresh, simple but also seductive. On the palate is powerful, a rich of mature red with fruit notes and with a lovable vanilla spices finish.

I always enjoy this wine and I always have some spare bottles in my cellar for some unscheduled dinners with friends.

Are there any other excuses not to begin to live & discover the delicious & magical world of wine?

...and remember stay thirsty, stay foolish :)

Angelo D'Alessandro

thedeliciousworld@gmail.com