Lamoresca Sicilia Rosso 2024 Gifts

Lamoresca Sicilia Rosso 2024 GiftsFilippo Rizzo's scant four hectares of vines, on his 11 hectare total farm, are old vines of the varieties that are traditional in inland and southern Sicily: Nerocapitano (the old name for Frappato), Nero d'Avola, and Grenache, here blended together in his flagship red wine. Lamoresca is the only winery for roughly 25 square miles; Filippo and his one farm employee, Gaetano, work the land continually by hand. This is old Sicily, hearkening to when

and not because it's big and bold

it's as nimble and lifted as Mosel Riesling

Not a sparkling wine to use just for a toast or as an aperitif: it deserves to express itself over a whole meal

and gentian with orange peel

Polish rye vodka produced in one of Poland's oldest operating distilleries

Notes of rhubarb

there are precious few other sparkling wines in Europe like it

As the pioneer of mass-produced single barrel bourbons

luckily able to locate a vineyard in famed Saumur-Champigny with organically farmed

punched down by hand

higher corn (77%

a little twang of herbs in the background