italian rose,always versatile and often misunderstood
Some people have a misunderstanding about rosato wine, thinking they are not serious wines, only blank drinks with pretty color. but as a wine professional I would say, that’s not true. There are blank pinky drinks for tourists at the seaside and there are the opposite.On October 27th we had a tasting of 6 Umbria rosatos and they are all serious
Wines tasted
| Terre San Nicola | Di FIlippo | 14% | 2021 |
| Rosat | Santa Croce | 12.5% | 2022 |
| Antheia | Brizziarelli | 15% | 2021 |
| Martavello | Ducac della Corgna | 12.5 | 2022 |
| Rosagra | Dionigi | 15% | 2022 |
| Rosado | Villa Bucher | 13.5% | 2022 |
It is impossible to say which is better, the only certainty here is that rosato wines are very versatile and easy to pair with food.
For me a good wine pairing means the wine and food flatter each other and multify the flavors of each other.
and since the 6 wines are very different their best pair are totally different foods.
as I said before, it is already a big success if customers can remember your winery’s name, do
not expect them to remember the names you give
to your wines. So when I mention the wines later in my articles, I will use the name of the winery and the grape varieties, instead of the given names of the wines.
we serve wine in 3 groups:
Villa Bucher (cabernet franc)
&
Santa Croce (montepulciano)
These 2 wines are more salty and feel drier, they pair particularly good with salty crunchy roasted nuts and trippa.
Briziarelli(sagrantino)
&
Dionigi(sagrantino)
Both wines are made of sagrantino but taste so different!
Briziarelli’s rosato is a dry wine but gives you the satisfaction of a sweet wine with rich, deep fragrance. While the Dionigi one is a rosato almost tastes like a red wine, I will not pair it with because it is made of sagrantino and it definitely tastes like a sagrantino!
duca della corgna(gamay trasimeno)
&
di filippo(sangiovese, montepulciano and others)
duca della corgna’ s is more nutty, more spicy and more full bodied ,so it goes better with spicy food and deep fried things.
di filippo is kind of a natural wine, goes better with more fatty food
