East Hill Bottle Shop 7 Dec 2022

With only a few more wine tastings before the Holidays, our local wine shops are pulling out some good ones to try. We had another tie for our highest classification here at GCW, a Wine of Note, and both were white!A Pinot Blanc by Pierre Sparr from Alsace France, and Fontaleoni Vernaccia di San Gimignano, from Tuscany Italy. Both unique, both liked by the tasters, and both good for different palettes. The Pinot Blanc had lots of peach and nectarine (stone fruit in wine talk), not sweet, balanced minerality and mild acidity made it very easy to drink. Pair with any chicken or white fish, or just drink. The Fontaleoni is made from Vernaccia, a native Italian hill country grape that doesn’t make it out on our tasting scene that often. It is higher in acid, making it more crisp and lively with notes of dry apple. Definitely a food wine. A good match for any Italian meal with Alfredo sauce.