Italy makes a wine for everything. Every palate, every table, every occasion. The problem isn't the wine — it's that nobody's bothered to make the introduction. That's the only reason I'm here.
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There's a vino for that.
Italy makes more wine, in more styles, from more grapes, than any country on earth — and has a centuries-old gift for making itself just complicated enough to keep most people from finding it. Not arrogance. Just a country more interested in the wine than the marketing. I'm
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