Tips for New Year’s Eve wines
WINE FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE
We arrived at December 31, New Year’s Eve and as all special events, this is the last chance of the year to get together around an table and toast with a special wine!
How should the wine be for this occasion?
INTRODUCTION
The art of drinking gives much importance to the choice of wine on this occasion because they celebrate New Year’s Eve without wine is like a dance without orchestra.
APERITIF
The drink should be informal, but super chic.
Americans prefer a cocktail or a whiskey and soda and ice.
Grace Kelly loved a cocktail made with bourbon whiskey, grenadine (soft drink made from pomegranate) and cream.
Frank Sinatra loved chilled glasses containing cocktail of high alcohol content, an explosive combination for all the senses.
Robert De Niro and his Dirty Martini, an extra strong cocktail, served shaken with vodka and three black olives.
The French prefer Pernod or Champagne.
The British prefer the Sherry.
Italians prefer dry sparkling wine or dry white wines, fresh cut, quite soft, with aromas of white fruits to be served at a temperature of 8 ° C.
in this category of wines we find the Vernaccia di San Gimignano, Gavi, Terre di Franciacorta Bianco, Pinot Grigio and Verdicchio.
DINNER
With rich and glittering table, recommend a good risotto with prosecco.
The board should have a minimum of four glasses, one for water, one for red wine, one for white wine, flutes for champagne and if we want a touch of romance a beautiful champagne glass that adds charm to the toast.
THE WINE
This evening recommend great wines, such as Brunello di Montalcino or Barolo combined with succulent dishes, tasty, like the Florentine steak, pot roast.
THE CEREMONIAL
On this occasion the board a fair pr ceremonial wine tasting, because it increases the pleasure of the board.
DESSERT
For wines to be tasted after or before dinner, which are called “meditation wines” with organoleptic characteristics prized by them well distinguished from all others.
I recommend wines like the Tuscan Vin Santo, the Moscato from Alto Adige, the Marsala.
A WINE AFTER ANOTHER
Serve the wine must have a change that must be made growing up, just like the dishes.
It is not good to eat before the cake and then the roast; the same thing is for wine.
1) You start with younger wines followed by older wines and this is why younger wines usually have simpler tastes;
2) White wines precede rosé wines, then follow the red wines, which will be followed by dessert wines;
3) Among these wines, the wines are less structured and less alcohol precede those with more body and higher alcohol content;
4) The liqueur wines are served for the past because their flavor covers all other sensations, for the high alcohol and their sugar content.
TOAST
At midnight, with the beginning of the new year, with a glass of sparkling wine or champagne, raising their glasses to the sky and avoiding touching between itself, the important thing is a smile, a desire to fulfill a wish and a free life and full of initiatives and in the words of Ernest Hemingway “Drinking is a way to end the day.”
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It was during these days, we have received a good news to celebrate the new year.
The “Consorzio della denominazione di San Gimignano” has chosen the best recipes combined with Vernaccia di San Gimignano:
Pumpkin ravioli with rabbit sauce
and
Cannoli with cod, purple potatoes, yellow potatoes, ginger.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Author
Luciana Cilemmi
Luciana Cilemmi, deals with Magazine, Style Director and Co-founder of Tenuta Torciano winery and Tenute Giachi wines and the innovative Viviarium Restaurant of Bottega Torciano- Tenuta Torciano & Winery is part of an international reality that is born in Italy by an initiative of Pierluigi Giachi and Luciana Cilemmi, who have worked for years in the Italian wine market , expanding throughout in the United States, managed and controlled by the american company ' Bellavini winery. Luciana Cilemmi was born in San Gimignano to a family of artists specialised in the restoration of medieval buildings. Having completed her technical studies, she now pursues the interests passed on to her by her family, like her passion for artistic objects, in particular works of art created in Tuscany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. But she reserves her keenest enthusiasm for the historic works completed in San Gimignano between 1100 and 1300. Alongside her love of medieval history, she is fascinated in wines produced from Tuscan vineyards, which, together with saffron and wool, were the most sought-after goods traded by the wealthy noble families of San Gimignano already in medieval times. Luciana Cilemmi left San Gimignano at the age of 21 and embarked on a pilgrimage in search of knowledge and to discover the new winemaking skills and products that were then developing both in Italy and in France. In the meantime she added to her knowledge of wine by attending specialised courses and becoming a master of wine. On returning to Siena, she discovered a wonderful area near Murlo where she fell in love with the tiny, unspoilt village of Montepescini. She bought the estate of Montepescini where, based on the experience she had acquired over the years, she found a particular lie of the land, special climatic conditions and an altitude suited to the creation of great wines. With enormous enthusiasm, doggedness and considerable effort, a reclamation programme was started to renew the terrain which was then used to plant 30 hectares of specialised vines. Sangiovese is the dominant vine, followed by Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Years of experimentation and the introduction of new winemaking techniques eventually led to the creation of Luciana di Memmi’s prestigious wines. Some years ago, Luciana Cilemmi succeeded in realising her dream of a lifetime: to return to her home town, San Gimignano. She was destined to buy the historic palace with the medieval tower, which had been owned by the prestigious Useppi family from 1200 to 1927 and had then passed to the noble and historic Chigi family of Siena. The Useppi were a powerful Sienese family who owned several castles. This beautiful medieval building has an elegant and distinctive façade full of Sienese and Pisan architectural influences. If you find yourself in San Gimignano, make sure you visit the Chigi Tower and Palace. Luciana Cilemmi holds regular events in the rooms of the medieval tower, such as the presentation of wines, both from her vineyards and elsewhere, attended by international journalists, experts from the sector and critics. She also organises exhibitions of works of art and paintings, and press conferences on the subject of "Wine in San Gimignano during medieval times”. Visiting the home of Luciana Cilemmi is like re-living an aspect of the past that will not return except through the imagination of those who have believed and continue to believe in this story.
