SF Importer Tasting: Festa di Foradori
Friday, September 20: 6-8pm
SAN FRANCISCO
$20 TASTING FEE (waived for Wine Club members)
While sadly we won't have the 'Queen of the Dolomites' here in person, we will have the Queen of Farm Wine Imports, Ms Claire Hill, with all of the lady's magical juice and plenty of knowledge. Elisabetta is a producer that needs little introduction; revered as one of Italy's greatest winemaking talents and a maven of biodynamic practices in the wine world, Elisabetta has all but forged a new path for her native Alto Adige since taking the reigns of her father's estate in the mid 80's. Today, she is also partnered in a second project on Tuscany's sunny Maremma coast: Ampeleia. Here, in a region known for Bordeaux flecked, power house reds, Elisabetta is turning out a range of relaxed, sunny and elegant wines that feel very decidedly Mediterranean at their core. We will be featuring wines from both projects on the night. 7 wines.
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SF Importer Tasting: Gulfi (Sicily)
Friday, September 27th: 6-8pm
SAN FRANCISCO
$15 TASTING FEE (waived for Wine Club members)
Long seen as Sicily's standard bearers of Nero d'Avola, the Gulfi estate has worked tirelessly over the last 3 decades to champion site-specific, wines of place, rising head and shoulders (and them some) above the waves of homogenous, mass-produced, and over-ripe plonk that long sullied the name of their beloved varietal. Under the guidance of lauded enologist, Salvo Foti, the Gulfi estate has forged a path for Nero d'Avola-based wines that display a poise, drive and expressiveness that is all but unrivaled in the state. Marcello Dellaccio, Wine Warehouse's Italian Wine Specialist will be on hand to speak to the wines. 5 wines.
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SF Importer Tasting: Franco Terpin (Friuli)
Friday, October 4: 6-8pm
SAN FRANCISCO
$15 TASTING FEE (waived for Wine Club members)
Situated in the hills bordering Italy and Slovenia, Franco Terpin turns out some of the freshest skin-macerated wines in the land; some hark to the big-hitting styles of his contemporaries in Skerk, Radikon & Gravner, others offer a super low key (and goddarn affordable) insight into the guy's talents and the bounties of his native Friuli. Always crafted in a rustic, low intervention fashion (no fining, no filtration, low sulfur) these are those dark horse wines that somehow still seem to fly under the radar, but are quickly snaffled by those in the know. 4 wines.
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