{"id":624,"date":"2015-08-07T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=624"},"modified":"2015-08-07T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T10:48:18","slug":"bruno-giacosas-roero-arneis-le-serre-nuove-dell-ornellaia-wine-for-sri-lankan-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkvintners.co.uk\/blog\/?p=624","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Giacosa&#8217;s Roero Arneis, Le Serre Nuove dell\u2019 Ornellaia, Wine for Sri Lankan food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Wine Lovers,<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t mind, a word in your shell-like&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What an earth has been going on? I leave you all in charge of the shop for one week and all hell breaks loose. I thought it was safe to pop down to Devon to learn how to put up umbrellas in horizontal gales whilst unpacking wetsuits filled with cold children onto carparks filled with thistles but no, clearly I was mistaken. Whilst I was gaining further parenting skills and willing the downing of the sun to be earlier each day, you were all up here, egging him on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><em>Alex is away for a few days, so I was thinking about buying some posh kit to put on the shelf to see if he notices, could be a nice little earner<\/em><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>That sounds like a great idea Wayne, why don\u2019t you see how many you can get in whilst he\u2019s not here, that\u2018ll teach him to go on holiday so often!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I was thinking it should be Italian and Spanish because he\u2019s so boring \u2013 if I were to order this Aussie stuff he\u2019s bound to have a wobbler<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Do it, just do it \u2013 nothing he can say from Plymouth and there\u2019s no phone reception or email west of Exeter<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I\u2019m going to place the order now&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I arrive back in the greenhouse on Monday morning and who is here to greet me? Only <strong>Feldmarschall von Fenner zu Fennberg <\/strong>, the 2012 M\u00fcller Thurgau made in the Sud Tirol \u2013 Alto Adige by <strong>Tiefenbrunner (\u00a326.99)<\/strong> and probably the best expression of this grape variety you\u2019ll find anywhere. Beside him, looking slightly nervous next to such military might, was <strong>Bruno Giacosa<\/strong> presenting his <strong>Roero Arneis 2014 (\u00a321.99) <\/strong>about whom I do remember writing a tasting note that started with the word \u2018WOW!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Next in line, standing to attention as they all were, as if on parade, was another new boy, <strong>Le Serre Nuove dell\u2019 Ornellaia 2012 (\u00a344.00) <\/strong>a generous and smooth super-tuscan from Bolgheri. I know Ornellaia, his father, well, of course, so was pleased to see him following in the family footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, standing close together, were two proud chaps from Spain who I hadn\u2019t seen in the shop for ages. Both from <strong>La Rioja Alta<\/strong>, it is a pleasure to welcome back <strong>Vi\u00f1a Arana Reserva 2006 (\u00a322.99) <\/strong>and his elder sibling <strong>Gran Reserva 904 2005 (\u00a335.00)<\/strong> both good, solid, trustworthy wines.<\/p>\n<p>And I hear there is talk of a <strong>Chablis Grand Cru<\/strong> in the offing too, I should go away more often, perhaps the New World will get some attention!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Here Terry, have a word&#8230;<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It also seems that he\u2019s been mucking about with the TV whilst I\u2019ve not been looking; certainly something very strange seems to be going on with the cricket. If only those kind and charming gents dressed in yellow, drinking wine from the bottle, that I sat next to on <u>that<\/u> Sunday at Lord\u2019s could be found, I\u2019d love to remind them of a couple of suggestions they made to the England team \u2013 seems to have worked!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Arsenal beat Chelsea in the Community Cup \u2013 surely that would never happen?<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u2018er indoors<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had a rare chance to pop out to dinner this week with our lovely, lovely lady wives. The intention was to visit <strong>Holy Smoke<\/strong> on Leopold Road, a new locale that has been well reviewed, but were sadly disappointed to discover they were fully booked, on a Tuesday night. Fabulous news for them, less so for us. Plan B arrived in the shape of Sri Lankan BYO <strong>Apollo Banana Leaf<\/strong> on Tooting High Street. This was delicious as ever and was helped us come to a number of crucial conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German Riesling is delicious and, when its only 8%, extremely easy to drink<\/li>\n<li>Mas de Daumas Gassac Blanc and Frog\u2019s Leap Zinfandel are superb matches to the spiciness of Sri Lankan cuisine<\/li>\n<li>Wayne has a capacity for mutton with a two chilli rating previously unshown but definitely worth utilising in some sort of eating competition<\/li>\n<li>My wife, in spite of months in India, still insists on drinking water when something is too spicy for her&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>The world is my lobster<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it could be yours too&#8230; <strong>Wine School<\/strong> will give you all the skills required to do this and at <strong>\u00a3150 for 6 weeks and 60-odd wines<\/strong>, is a far better use of time and money than a mis-spent night down the Winchester Club. Just about half-full at the moment so don\u2019t be backward about coming forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>I&#8217;ve got a good idea, just you keep me near, I could be so good for you<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Which is what all the wine sings to us each morning when we open up. However, we can\u2019t keep all the wines near and we shouldn\u2019t keep them all to ourselves, as that would no doubt <u>not<\/u> be so good for us, so as ever we\u2019ll open a couple up this weekend, every one a go-er.<\/p>\n<p>As it\u2019s a white with the Wow factor, I think it would be appropriate to let you all enjoy the <strong>Bruno Giacosa Roero Arneis(\u00a321.99)<\/strong> that I mentioned earlier, whilst the red will be <strong>Quinta da Falorca 2010 (\u00a313.99) <\/strong>a delicious red from the D\u00e2o in Portugal, one that we have enjoyed immensely in the past and which has just moved onto the 2010 vintage.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about it from us \u2013 for those who like to guess who writes the email each week this should be an easy one (or is it?)<\/p>\n<p>Stick it on the slate, Dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Wine Lovers, If you don\u2019t mind, a word in your shell-like&#8230;. What an earth has been going on? I leave you all in charge of the shop for one week and all hell breaks loose. 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