Rosato Doesn't Care About Your Insecurities.
France has had a stranglehold on the rosé conversation for decades. Italy's been making rosato across twenty regions the whole time. The quality is there. The prices are considerably more civilized.
Todd B. Alexander
DUMB MONEY WINES
Wall Street has meme stocks. Wine has Château Margaux and cult Napa Cab. The herd has been doing this for decades. We just never called it what it is.
The Slow Life
December 1992. Carrù, Piedmont. A cow's head in a stock pot. Carlo Petrini standing next to me. A local TV crew. And the broth that changed the argument.
There's a vino for that.
Italy makes more wine, from more grapes, than any country on earth — and has a centuries-old gift for making itself just complicated enough to keep most people from finding it. Not arrogance. Just a country more interested in the wine than the marketing. I'm here to close that distance.
Ottin Torrette Superiore × Grilled Salmon
— A haiku — Grill char, alpine fruit Acid threads the salmon's fat Mountains meet the sea A mountain red with grilled salmon. Trust me. The 2022 Ottin Torrette Superiore comes from the Alps. It's made from Petit Rouge, a grape that grows almost nowhere else. Cranberry. Dried
The Walk After
I cooked salmon last night. Grilled it hard, charred the skin, poured a mountain red from the Alps that had no business being as good as it was. Serious eats. Then I did the thing I always do, mostly out of self-preservation. I put on my shoes and went