Grignolino, a gentle red wine
I did not know Grignolino, I mean good, I like it, sul ‘campo’. I do not consider myself an expert, as I often say are just a woman who loves wine and wants to know him through all the elements that compose.
The wine for me is an expression of the experience of man applied to the vine, to the territory and climate, so I wonder – how you can give a full review without knowing each element that helps to determine its characteristics? – Some, with the taste you can reap the defects or merits, but that did not stop them.
Precisely for this, a few days ago, when a friend asked me what I thought of a wine, I was tempted to reply… – sto, I can tell you that I like or do not like, ma and vino, until I met him in his fullness, I pass only half. It 's like to know a person by reading her, but without having met her ... you will never have the perception of what is really –
I made this premise for you to understand how 'I love living the wine', but above all to make you understand the enthusiasm with which I jumped at the invitation of Maurizio gilyak and Monica Pisciella for #grignolinodigitour. That said, Spot on ... it starts!
When beginning a journey, short or long, within almost in another dimension, I swear, I'm not kidding! Within in symbiosis with the land that I visit.
Now I'm thinking that ... but as they are beautiful landscapes wine! In this season then, with the many shades of colors ranging from green to yellow and red ... a true wonder!
Did you know that wine landscapes of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato are candidates to become UNESCO World Heritage? Well you, and about!
The # GrignolinoDigiTour was held Sunday 17 November.
Together with friends we left the Officina Enoica Milan pointing in the direction of Rock of Rosignano Monferrato, a balcony that I recommend you visit for its stunning views.
To expect Maurizio Gily, that, immediately after the customary greetings, it was found on the height of my heels; the last time we saw each other in Gavi I had a couple stratospheric, I have not repeated that mistake this time. 😉
A walk to get to know an area is the best way to live. It 's so that it is started our tour in the land of Grignolino: a path between the 'i bric e foss’, the rolling hills of Casale Monferrato.
From time to time I lost sight of the group because of my constant stops to photograph every angle hitting my eyes.
The views of the vineyards, the characteristic views of the beautiful homes in pietra of Cantoni, sandstone typical of these places, up to the viewpoint, or better, ‘Asal Sass’, the rock on which stands the original town.
Once we found in common to expect the kind of government representatives Rosignano Monferrato, Cell and Monte San Giorgio. In addition to welcome us there explained their project to promote the area addressed in particular to digital communicators.
They could not miss a cup of coffee and the famous Krumiri Portinaro, a typical Monferrato which dates back to 1878, year in which he died Vittorio Emanuele II. He was dedicated, inspired by the typical shape of its 'handlebar mustache'.
The next stop was a visit to 'Eco-museum and its infernot located in Cella Monte, common characteristic for buildings exposed stone from the cantons.
Guess who I met them? A woman with a hat, or better, una bella ‘Monferrina’! This name originates from an ancient ballad of Monferrato whose birth seems to date back to the story of a young Piedmontese, Maria Catlina, courted by her lover with this dance.
The infernot are underground niches carved into the stone by the cantons. Situati in private homes, are they airing live without light, with climate and humidity constant. Environments, that in the history of wine-making, have found the ideal place for storing wine.
Underground architecture born of peasant wisdom, which has made today an expression of rural tradition of this area.
Arrived in time for lunch we stopped at the ‘Relais I Castagnoni‘, Dimora a vintage 1742, a religious convent time. Here we tasted the typical dishes of the Monferrato white truffle.
Maurizio gilyak, after a blind tasting in twelve samples of Grignolino, told us about the history and characteristics of this wine typical of Casale Monferrato, a wine that is still little known to most.
The meeting and listening to producers, then, completed the picture. With them, I had the opportunity to, to taste, and a better understanding of this wine as it should be.
Grignolino, a light ruby colored wine, as repeatedly stressed by admin, not a rosé wine, but red wine vinification with maceration on the skins. A wine very sensitive to the territory of origin from which acquires the peculiar characteristics.
Defined by Veronelli Anarchica eat and forehead Balorda, for almost rebellious and independent personality, of Mario Soldati, as the most delicate of all the wines of Piedmont.
Lo sto bevendo ora, As I write, after I met him at the place where it was born, after talking with those who produce. I do not like too much about the wines embroider, For this reason, I will describe in a few words: ‘Grignolino, a gentle red wine’.
“You have to go to the wine without waiting for the wine to come to us "
Filiberto Lodi – Journalist
The etymology of the term Grignolino seems to date back to the medieval term 'berbexinus', a wine grape berbexine considered valuable. (Maurizio source Gily)