A weekend of beach time, pizza, truffles, and gelato wasn’t enough for us. To top off the weekend, we stopped a couple cellars on the way back from Fano since it was the weekend of “Cantine Aperte” (Open Cellars). Basically most of the major wineries in Le Marche offer free tastings. You pay 5 euros for commemorative wine glass and taste to your heart’s content. Wine tasting in Italy is so much better than Washington. I think I had more fun eating the food at the tastings than the wine itself.
First stop was Villa Bucci. I’m no wine expert but the wine was pretty tasty. It was pretty crowded so we skidaddled over to see some friends.
Since I’m not a wine expert, I’ll let this man do the review of this Pievalta wine:
Last we stopped at Fattoria San Lorenzo. Giovanni told me that the winemaker just sort of fell into the business. He doesn’t have any formal education for winemaking but inherited the land from his father and just began making wine. The wine was actually really good. I was a fan of the reds here which is unusual for me since I generally prefer whites. I love this story because it just makes me think of the idea of how winemaking is in the blood of some of the people here. Unfortunately, as tasty as the wine and food was, I was a little dissapointed in the service. When we arrived we just sort of wandered into the tasting room and the winemaker was there but after he preapred glasses for us he just wandered off. This seemed strange to me because in all of the tasting I’ve had before someone generally talks to you about the wine at least. We were just left alone in this case. And we tried to buy a bottle and the winemaker when to get one for us but then never came back. We waited for about 20 minutes and then just left because it seemed absurd that we had to nag to buy his wine.
Our last stop was Colonnara not for the tasting but to say hello to our friends Agostino and Luigi. We ended the day with happy hour and dinner . Oh the Italian life….
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