OK, so maybe a fake item about two of America's three greatest bimbo/slut/morons didn't generate a lot of site traffic. (Quiz: Who is the third of the three great American bimbo/slut/morons? Please get it right--overseas they already think we're dumb.)
So here I am, both redeeming and condemning myself by praising a fairly priced, very dry and pleasing Pinot Grigio.
This light, delicious, slightly pineappley wine is from a previously reported winery, the excellent Tiefenbrunner, which is located far in the mountainous northeast of Italy (province of Bolzano).
I don't mean to overpraise what is essentially a simple, very young (2006 vintage) wine. But it has snap and character, with lots of fruit-and-mineral flavor combined with just enough acidity to make it a good companion with food. Which makes it quite unlike the vast majority of off-dry, watery Pinot Grigios you get in most restaurants and, in fact, on most wine store shelves. (And at $13 or so, far less expensive than the shockingly nothing Santa Margherita.)
This Pinot Grigio delle Venezie (12.5%) is a dry, light and very drinkable PG that is imported by Leonardo Loscascio (www.winebow.com). By the way, "Pinot Grigio dell Venezie" is a nice way of saying that the grapes don't come from the winery's home, which is not in "le Venezie." ("The Venices." This is like naming an office park "Princeton Whatever" in New Brunswick.) But the fine winery touch of Tiefenbrunner is all over this rather stylish wine.
Better yet, it comes with a screw cap. Twist, serve, drink, twist and serve again. Hey, that's OK, the wine tastes as clean and healthy as any of the wines made from Trentino-Alto Adige grapes. Such is the skill of Tiefenbrunner and other great wineries of extreme NE Italy.
Drink a bottle and you'll have a higher class of hangover, trust me.
yer right, this is a good pinot grigio.
Posted by: Fredric Koeppel | August 22, 2007 at 01:49 PM