There is never really a bad time for rosé – it’s refreshing, a versatile food wine and a superb thirst quencher on a warm day.  So when NYC temperatures soar about 80 degrees, there’s no better time to break out the first rosé of the season.
 
Some rosé wines are made by actually combining finished white and red wines together, but the more traditional (and typically higher quality) versions are produced by pressing red skinned grapes and leaving the skins in contact with the wine for a short period of time to impart …

Let’s just get something straight right up front – Domenico Clerico makes absolutely ridiculous Barolo.  We had the chance to taste their $80-$100 bottles of Pajana and Ciabot Mentin Ginestra from 2007 and either one of those could have been on our list of top wines of the year.  But somehow, what stuck out in a line-up full of amazing wines, was the “simple” barbera from Domenico Clerico for around $20.
It doesn’t have the layers of complexity that the nebbiolo-based Barolo wines have, but it has lush fruit aromas and …

Wednesday means wine on Eat Boutique and luckily for us, we’re kind of responsible for that. Rules of the game are that we must, once a week, drink a wine from a small production winery and ideally pair it with a good at home meal. Tough life, isn’t it?
This week, we’re relating our Valentine’s Day evening, which included a massive, locally sourced, 30 ounce rib-eye steak and a Rosso di Montalcino.
The wine has a really stunning color – brick red and very translucent.  The aromas are sort of grassy, which …

A few weeks ago at a wine tasting, we encountered a Nero d’Avola that – shocking as it may sound – we would describe as LIGHT.  One of our readers confirmed to us that this is pretty atypical of the varietal and this wine will usually take on some brawny muscle and rich fruit.  So we decided to give it another go and see just how different the Neros could be.

The bottle we selected was in the same price range and vintage as the first and, as far as we …

Yesterday was Wednesday, which means that we had a new wine post live on Eat Boutique. This week, we revisited high-altitude wines with a Mount Etna based winery and ventured in the art of homemade pizza.
Last night’s pairing surprised us more than anything we’ve experienced so far this year. It involved Italian wine, a homemade pizza and a CD we hadn’t heard in years. It all started back in 2005…
Read more on Eat Boutique, right here.
Do you know a great small winery that we should try? Feel free to let …

A few weeks into the new year, some people’s fizzle for sparkling wine might have faded… but not ours!  Quite to the contrary, actually.  During a recent trip to the wine shop, we stumbled on a collection of Lini 910‘s portfolio of entry level NV Lambruscos and just couldn’t say no.   The only problem?  Finding a few friends to help us take down 3 bottles of sparkling… luckily Sean and Julie helped us out with that!
Here are our combined notes:

Labrusca Bianco | dry and super-light.  Floral aromas.  Short and simple …