Here is the Sassello Super Tuscan that we enjoyed the other night with our Italian meal. It is a fabulous wine, aged 18 months in oak, made from Sangiovese grapes. This wine is among many produced at the famous Verrazzano winery in Greve in Chianti, Tuscany. Its website is
http://www.verrazzano.com/. Once on the website, click on the little British flag to get the English version to appear.
The vintner has this to say about the wine: "Sassello represents the highest expression of the terroir-vine binomial, where Sangiovese creates a unique wine with a deep and impenetrable colour of an intense ruby red, enhanced by purple overtones. The fragrance is fine and intense, wide and persistent, and offers a variety of fruity notes including cherries, blackberries, raspberries underlined by hints of oak and vanilla. The taste is elegant and complex with closely woven tannins both smooth and pleasant joined to notes of fruit and spice, oak and vanilla, with an equally pleasant and long finish."
No good wine tasting is complete without wild boar salame and bruschetta (above) ! We were made to feel very welcome, and the tastings were numerous and plentiful.
Simone, on the left, is the sommelier who led our wine tasting. His personality is as vibrant as his smile!
I recommend a visit to this charming and refined establishment. Visit their photogallery here:
http://www.verrazzano.com/en/photogallery/
