SPECIAL GUEST WINE TASTING
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 PM

WINES WILL BE DISCOUNTED FOR ON AND OFF PREMISE PURCHASE

Our good friend Larry will be here to taste us on some great wines for the Holidays! We will be tasting wines from Sicily, Tuscany, Piedmont and the Veneto.  Ornellaia , Bertani, Sandrone all famous award winning producers!

Grillo , Regaleali Cavallo delle Fate
100% Grillo grapes
Complex dry white wine with white peach and melon aromas, notes of honeysuckle , sage and mint.

Barbera d’ Alba, Sandrone
100% Barbera grapes
Dark fruit flavors, blackberry , plum and baking spices
JS 91 Pts  RP 93 Pts AG 93 Pts

Brunello di Montalcino, Poggio Antico
100% Sangiovese Grosso grapes
The wine is complex, balanced, and elegant, offering notes of cherry, mushroom, tobacco, and spices.  Critics love this wine and vintage and tasting it I can see why
JS 95pts  WE 95pts RP 94 pts WS 94 pts

Valpolicella Ripasso Superiore, Bertani Catullo 
Corvina Veronese (70%), Corvinone (20%), and Rondinella (10%)
Aged in 75-hectolitre French oak barrels for 12 months, followed by a further year in 100-hectolitre concrete vats, and then at least 6 months in the bottle.
James Suckling awarded the wine 95 points, calling it a “brilliant” and “streamlined expression” with notes of “strawberries, lilacs, Asian plums, cloves and a hint of licorice”.

Amarone, Bertani Valpantena
80% Corvina Veronese and 20% Rondinella.
Grapes are hand-selected and air-dried (a process called appassimento) in single-layer crates until mid-January to concentrate flavors and structure.   The wine is aged for about 30 months in large Slavonian oak barrels (and a small part in barriques), followed by at least six months of maturation in the bottle.
Wine Spectator awarded the wine 92 points, highlighting “savory underbrush and smoke notes play off the sweet and juicy core of dried cranberry fruit” and hints of “dark chocolate, sassafras, blood orange peel and white pepper linger on the mouthwatering finish”.

Super Tuscan, Ornellaia “Le Serre Nuove”
50% Merlot, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Cabernet Franc, and 11% Petit Verdot.
Le Serre Nuove dell’Ornellaia is considered the estate’s “second wine,” made with the same ethos and grape varieties as its more famous “mother” wine, Ornellaia
Wine Enthusiast awarded an impressive 95 points, noting “dark fruit and a sanguine, tangy metallic component” along with undertones of “vanilla and chocolate”.
Vinous awarded 94 points, calling it a “powerhouse” with masses of “dark fruit, bittersweet chocolate, leather, licorice and cloves”.

Reservations are highly suggested if you plan to stay for dinner.
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