意國情懷 匯聚北角 @Henry's Kitchen (Part 1)

Refer:

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/mariawan-blog/article?mid=3334

A wine dinner to share my passion in trying rare grape varieties.

Thanks to those who joined me for this adventure！

 

這夜的食物水準，也許令部份朋友十分失望！

如果是 ～ 就當是與一班朋友聚舊開心，而且給一些努力的小店經營者多一點機會及支持吧！

 

the wines

La Colombera

La Colombera winery is located in Piedmont, immersed in the green hills of Vho, a small village near the town of Tortona.

La Colombera 酒莊資料

http://www.lacolomberavini.it/uk/vigneti.htm

 

<1> La Colombera, Meo 2007

Grape variety: Cortese

Visual examination:  straw-yellow colour with greenish reflexes.

Olfactory examination:  fruity, rather intense and persistent. White fruit and floral nose.

Refinement:  in stainless steel vat at controlled temperature

 

<2> La Colombera, Bricco Bartolomeo 2006

Grape variety:  Cortese and a small part of Citronina

Visual examination:  straw-yellow colour, clear and rather consistent.

Olfactory examination: wine of good intensity and complexity, delicate and properly persistent. Intense fruity and floral notes; classical nectarine and apricot notes, together with broom flower emerge. Pleasant herbal traces in the finish. With ageing, classical touches of almond come out.

Refinement:  in stainless steel vat at controlled temperature

 

<3> La Colombera, Timorasso 2005

Grape variety:  100% Timorasso

差一點絕種而被救活過來的葡萄 ~

Visual examination:  clear, intense yellow-gold colour, consistent.

Olfactory examination:  during the first years after bottling fruity, nectarine, acacia flowers and whitethorn notes emerge. Candy-floss and acacia flower touches are usually well defined. A typical honey note predominates. While young, only light mineral and hydrocarbon notes are detectable, after three/four-year bottle refinement they become more defined and intense. On the nose it is intense and highly complex.

Refinement: nine months in stainless steel vat at controlled temperature on “noble” lees

Timorasso hails from south-eastern Piedmont, and more specifically, from the Colli Tortonesi (the hills around the small city of Tortona) which is bounded by the Langhe, The Monferrato Hills, and the Oltrepo` Pavese regions. Timorasso is not the rarest of rare Italian grape varieties, but it probably sits in the “second tier” of rarities.

After being forgotten during the Eighties, it was then re-discovered by different wine-dressers. Cited in the wines list of some among the best Italian and foreign restaurants, this wine is more and more appreciated and together with Barbera and Cortese best represents the current quality offer of the Tortona region.

 

  to Part 2 .....

mw 24-07-2009