What better wine for Labor Day than Clic? This line of clean drinking wines from Friuli are the brainchild of Enrico Coser, son of award-winning winemaker Fabio Coser. Taste Pinot Grigio and Refosco this Saturday afternoon!
CLIC TASTING
Saturday, September 3
3:00-6:00pm
Pinot Grigio has been hiding in plain sight for years now. All over northern Italy winemakers have been churning out zillions of gallons of light-colored, aromatically neutral, crisply nondescript wines to satisfy an army of unquenchably thirsty and unaccountably unsophisticated palates. The people want bland Pinot Grigio! At least that’s what the farmers say. How else would you explain why an otherwise interesting variety is routinely harvested before it’s reached the level of ripeness required to invest it with the same luxuriant charms that Pinot Gris routinely produces in Alsace?
All this Italian Pinot abuse has had us on the run for years. Every time a well made Pinot Grigio appeared on the Vino tasting table we found ourselves making another round of excuses. We couldn’t possibly let a tasty $15.00 PG steamroll our Verdicchio, Erbaluce, Falanghina and Friulano. How would they compete? We run no more.
Clic Pinot Grigio 2009
$13
A medium-to-full-bodied Pinot Grigio with a pink screw cap and a pedigree from one of the best winemakers in Friuli’s Collio zone. Fabio Coser buys fruit from his favorite farmers at its ripest and vinifies in temperature-controlled stainless steel.
Castel Sallegg Pinot Grigio 2009 1 liter
$17
Slightly lighter in body than the Clic, this citrus-scented PG comes from our favorite Alto Adige estate. Winemaker Matthias Hauser picks just shy of full ripeness to produce wines with zesty acidity. The one-liter bottle is a great value as the wine is only two dollars more expensive than the traditional 750ml.
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Refosco, often considered exotic around these parts, is typically enjoyed in versatile everyday wines at home in Friuli, the north-eastern region of Italy. We had our Refosco epiphany in a charming osteria in Friuli’s Colli Orientali.
There, where the sub-variety Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso is considered the chief native red, we came to understand that all too frequently the region’s winemakers were sending us their gussied-up versions, replete with full-on oak and loaded down with extract and alcohol while they enjoyed the local style, medium-bodied with zesty acidity and intriguing aromas of stuff like herbs, creosote and blueberries.
The thinking goes we suppose, that our American tastes aren’t excited by such food friendly attributes. To that we say hogwash.
Ronco dei Tassi winemaker Fabio Coser (above center) and his son Enrico (above right, brother Matteo is above left) created the Clic line to introduce wine drinkers the world over to the great charms of Friulan wines. With outstanding native and international vine varieties and consumate skill in cellar and vineyard the Cosers offer impressive quality at a very good price.
Ronco dei Tassi Clic Refosco 2009
$13
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For more information please contact 212-725-6516 or info@vinosite.com.
