Valentine’s day just passed by. It is just an other great excuse I had to open a good bottle of wine and enjoy it with a nice dinner.
I recently discoverd a small wine shop here in Hoboken, where we live, where I lost myself searching for some good and less “famous” producers.
The other day I bought this lovely red wine from the heart of South Tyrol, Alto Adige, north of Italy that won 2 cups Gambero Rosso and many other awards.
Born from a splendid example of cooperative winery, Caldaro, which today boasts nearly 450 members who cultivate around 300 hectares of vineyards and is owned by the Church, is located in the heartland of wine Caldaro. The mild lake climate and soils rich in limestone chippings – and therefore highly permeable – provide ideal conditions for the production of wines and soft structured.
This 95% Schiava comes from selected vineyards with old vines and south exposition at 230 – 500 meters above sea level. Schiava is a light, fresh wine, but the small addition of Lagrein which Kaltern has decided to do in his “Pfarrhof” brings elegance, texture, softness and a higher fruit ranging from cherry notes to notes of raspberry and strawberry.
This wine is ideal as a full meal or perfect as an aperitif, an accompaniment to appetizers, lighter meats, charcuterie and mild cheeses.