On the 14th, I opened up a bottle of 2006 Reverdito Barolo that I picked up from Vinopolis. Selling for about $18 a bottle, I was highly skeptical that it could amount to much more than a pleasant nebbiolo (which is still a very good thing). Barolo "wine of kings" for less than $20? You can understand my pause. Ah, but good fortune is at hand: it is actually a very good wine. After the initial tasting - dark fruits and leather and gentle tannins - I continued to sample it daily, until KT and I finished it off on Tuesday....and it still tasted pleasant and showing no signs of turning. A case purchase can't be far behind1
Last night, we opened a 2001 Marcel Deiss Pinot Blanc, to pair with an apple-fennel hash, sausages and steamed small white potatoes. Amazingly, the wine still has life and vigor. Just the slightest hint of oxidation to me, but the full strength of the mouth-filling acidity and tart apple crispness never faltered.
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