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Rosato Doesn't Care About Your Insecurities.
France has had a stranglehold on the rosé conversation for decades. Italy's been making rosato across twenty regions the whole time. The quality is there. The prices are considerably more civilized.
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Barone Ricasoli|Chianti Classico Brolio|$30|https://shop...
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Feudi di San Gregorio|Falanghina Campania|$18|https://shop...
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Rosato Doesn't Care About Your Insecurities.
France has had a stranglehold on the rosé conversation for decades. Italy's been making rosato across twenty regions the whole time. The quality is there. The prices are considerably more civilized.
DUMB MONEY WINES
Wall Street has meme stocks. Wine has Château Margaux and cult Napa Cab. The herd has been doing this for decades. We just never called it what it is.
The Slow Life
December 1992. Carrù, Piedmont. A cow's head in a stock pot. Carlo Petrini standing next to me. A local TV crew. And the broth that changed the argument.
Ottin Torrette Superiore × Grilled Salmon
— A haiku — Grill char, alpine fruit Acid threads the salmon's fat Mountains meet the sea A mountain red with grilled salmon. Trust me. The 2022 Ottin Torrette Superiore comes from the Alps. It's made from Petit Rouge, a grape that grows almost nowhere else. Cranberry. Dried
Ottin Torrette Superiore × Grilled Salmon
— A haiku — Grill char, alpine fruit Acid threads the salmon's fat Mountains meet the sea A mountain red with grilled salmon. Trust me. The 2022 Ottin Torrette Superiore comes from the Alps. It's made from Petit Rouge, a grape that grows almost nowhere else. Cranberry. Dried
The Walk After
I cooked salmon last night. Grilled it hard, charred the skin, poured a mountain red from the Alps that had no business being as good as it was. Serious eats. Then I did the thing I always do, mostly out of self-preservation. I put on my shoes and went