A Pilsner, Mozart, and Monet
by Dustin Soiseth
I Pástini
Italy | Puglia | Valle d’Itria
One of the more unique wines in our portfolio, Gianni Carparelli’s rosato is made—like all I Pástini wines—from a variety native to Puglia, in southern Italy. In this case it’s the red grape Susumaniello, which is as fun to say as this wine is to drink. It’s bright and tart, with raspberry and peach notes and a distinct mineral streak. The effect is like drinking a great pilsner—brisk and refreshing, with a subtle fruitiness and just a touch of palate-cleansing bitterness.
Domaine de Terrebrune
France | Provence | Bandol
Would you consider going out to dinner only in spring? Limiting your bike riding to the summer months? Hanging out with friends just in autumn? Of course not! There’s a place for seasonality in our lives, but not for such enjoyable pursuits as these, and certainly not for exceptional rosé–and the Bandol from Domaine de Terrebrune is nothing short of exceptional. Vigneron Reynald Delille is a rosé master and revered by his Provençal peers for the complexity and age-worthiness of his bottling each year. He’d be the first to tell you to drink it year-round, or perhaps even in five years.
While a cool glass of Terrebrune’s dry, peach-scented Bandol rosé is the bee’s knees on a warm summer afternoon, it’s also deliciously bracing with oysters on a blustery winter day, delightful with a salad made from spring’s first produce, and the perfect complement to your Thanksgiving feast. So what if it’s cold and gray outside? Don’t let something as arbitrary as the weather or the tilt of the Earth’s axis keep you from a cool glass of this Provençal classic.
One of the more unique wines in our portfolio, Gianni Carparelli’s rosato is made—like all I Pástini wines—from a variety native to Puglia, in southern Italy. In this case it’s the red grape Susumaniello, which is as fun to say as this wine is to drink. It’s bright and tart, with raspberry and peach notes and a distinct mineral streak. The effect is like drinking a great pilsner—brisk and refreshing, with a subtle fruitiness and just a touch of palate-cleansing bitterness.
Would you consider going out to dinner only in spring? Limiting your bike riding to the summer months? Hanging out with friends just in autumn? Of course not! There’s a place for seasonality in our lives, but not for such enjoyable pursuits as these, and certainly not for exceptional rosé–and the Bandol from Domaine de Terrebrune is nothing short of exceptional. Vigneron Reynald Delille is a rosé master and revered by his Provençal peers for the complexity and age-worthiness of his bottling each year. He’d be the first to tell you to drink it year-round, or perhaps even in five years.
While a cool glass of Terrebrune’s dry, peach-scented Bandol rosé is the bee’s knees on a warm summer afternoon, it’s also deliciously bracing with oysters on a blustery winter day, delightful with a salad made from spring’s first produce, and the perfect complement to your Thanksgiving feast. So what if it’s cold and gray outside? Don’t let something as arbitrary as the weather or the tilt of the Earth’s axis keep you from a cool glass of this Provençal classic.
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