Talk-A-Vino

For those who is just joining us and for those who forgot: if you wonder what this mysterious journey is, please take a look at this post. As I was wondering in my last post if there can be too many wines in the tasting, I’m continuing here with the update on the progress of the “treble journey”, inching on the ultimate destination point – 300 different grapes. Well, if tasting of the new grape can be defined as  “inching”, or in other words, moving forward by an inch, then as a result of the last wine tasting I made more than a foot of the progress – 16 different grapes in one day. Considering that we are talking about that many grapes, I will simply list grapes and wines without providing much of the detailed notes or ratings (besides, with some of the wines, I will be very happy to never try them again…). Here is the list:

Ansonica – Donnafugata Anthilia White 2008, Sicily

Bovale Sardo – Serralori Rosato IGT 2009, Italy

Drupeggio – Palazzone Orvieto 2009, Italy

Frapatto, Nerello Capuccio – Dievole Fourplay Rosso 2007, Italy

Mantonico – Efeso Bianco IGT 2005, Italy

Moristel = Marbore 2003, Spain

Moscato Reale – Apianae 2007, Italy

Muscardin, Terret, Vaccarese – Domaine de Beaurenard Chateauneuf duPape Boisrenard Red 2007, France

Muscat de Frontignan – Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2005, South Africa

Nuragus – Selegas DOC 2009, Italy

Rabo de Ovelha – Loios White 2009, Portugal

Roscetto – Ferentano Bianco Lazio IGT 2007

Scheurebe – Joseph Phelps Eisrebe 2005, California

So while it is great to add a big number of new grapes, each additional grape makes the “journey” more and more difficult, as now you need to search far and wide in order to find the new grape. But – this search and anticipation are big part of the process, so lets enjoy it.

To sum up – there are still 38 more grapes to go… Unique grape suggestions, anyone?