Home Alone (Me, not the movie). Whole Wheat Pasta. Homemade spicy tomato sauce. Hot Turkey Snausage. With home grown basil. Garlic bread with fresh garlic cloves.
I only had one thought in mind when I was cooking this meal and I had my trusty Riedel decanter ready for the task: Barolo. Barolo, generally considered the highest permutation of the nebbiolo grape grown in the Piedmont region of Italy, is a big wine. To be clear, this is a wine I've only had a few times before primarily because of the sticker shock. It is usually hard to find one under $80 that garners any favorable attention. I was lucky enough to find this bottle on sale for 40 bones each so I dug in and bought two.
Now this wine might be a little young as it tasted a little green still but it was fantastic. From the color (a lighter red with a distinct orange hue) to the aromas (tobacco and cedar) to the taste (more tobacco, dark fruits), this was a great bottle of wine. Maybe most important of all, it was a wine that made me feel like I was in Italy and, for someone who's never been, I don't even know what that means but it says a lot about this wine.
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