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2008 Banfi Rosa Regale

Price: $23.00
Varietal: 100% Brachetto d’Acqui
Region: Italy > Piemonte (Piedmont)
Website: www.rosaregale.com
Winemakers Notes: While it is appreciated as one of the few wines in the world that truly marries well with chocolate, especially dark or bittersweet, its charms extend across a palette of occasions and food pairings, from savory to sweet. On its own Rosa Regale is an elegant aperitif. Its fruity character beguiles the heat of spicy Asian and Latino fare, and its gentle acidity is an ideal foil to the piquant richness of goat cheese, especially in a spring mix salad with almonds and cranberries. Quiches, glazed hams, beets, vichyssoise, gazpacho, chowders and even the myriad of flavors at Thanksgiving dinner, all traditionally challenging wine matches, are enchanted by Rosa Regale. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, trifles and hazelnut tortes are all elevated by this frothy wine.

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2009 Villadoria Piemonte Brachetto

Price: $15.00
Varietal: 100% Brachetto
Region: Italy > Piedmont
Website: www.villadoria.it

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Topic: Wine and the Holidays – In this episode we have decided to get with the season and discuss wine and the holidays.

Tasting: 2007 Banfi Rosa Regale

Price: $22.99
Varietal: 100% Brachetto d’Acqui
Region: Italy > Piemonte (Piedmont)
Website: www.rosaregale.com

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