Gearing up for 3 exciting days of wine, food and Italy at Vino 2010 (February 3 to 5) in New York.
If there is a word that defines life with a Mediterranean flair it is Conviviality: “Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable.”
In that spirit, evenings at Vino 2010 (and some lunches too) will explore that food and wine connection as applied to the whole Italian palette or to specific regions.
Exhibit number one for the whole Italian palette will be the dinner at Del Posto on Wednesday night.
Exhibit number two applied to specific regions is the Apulia (or Puglia) Region dinner and its wines on Thursday night with guest chef Patti Jackson of I Trulli restaurant…
Will we be served any Locorodonto (its grapes pictured above)?
From the grapes you can tell it’s a white wine described as “preferably drunk with simple dishes, such as delicate fish
starters, pasta dishes with light fish sauces, boiled fish, fried oily
fish, sautéed cuttlefish and octopus, omelettes. The best time to drink
it is within one-two years of the harvest.”
I will go with the flow and see what inspires and surprises me.
The only drawback with all these tastings one after the other is I would have to become a writing machine if I was to cover everything worthy.
I hope you forgive me for my lapses.
I will do my best to serve as many helpings as I can humanly do.