Pinot Nero - One of the best worldwide wines

Since we live at least part of the year in the Langhe, we drink mainly wines from Italy.  Our other residences are not in wine producing areas of various countries. However, when we live in the US, we drank a lot of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and what this blog is all about, Pinot Noir.  We have had wines from New Zealand, Oregon and the Central Coast and Sonoma Valley of California.  They all make very good Pinots (also some not so good ones) which made us want to find good Pinots from Italy. We have found a few good producers of this wine in Italy and wish to show our appreciation about the grape and the efforts of the producers to make one of the most difficult wines on the planet. The difference from this blog and our Barolo, Barbaresco and Nebbiolo blog (https://barolo-blog.blogspot.com/) is that we can not travel to some of these areas to taste the wines (sometimes to try them again) to be able to write about them.  But we might lead you to prod...

  07-05-2023 2021 Sudtirol  We found this Pinot in a store in Asti.  We did not have many good feelings for the wine especially that the wine would be like the Roccol from yesterday but we wanted to try it. It was not the Roccol, of course.  The costs and the years are far apart but the wine was not bad for Natalya's chinese angliotti.  It stood up to the lunch very well.  We will buy four to six to put away for one year minimum to see how they come along.

 This is a Pinot that we picked up at a restaurant in Acqui Terme after having it at lunch one day.  The wine is 2012 but we do not remember what year we had it. In any case, it is a spectacular wine.  As a former Pinot drinker in both New Zealand and Central California, I have had some of the best ones in the world.  I was not aware that Italy made Pinot that would be on the same level as the ones I had in the other two countries. We had this on a Saturday lunch with Natalya's Dolme.  The wine was opened about 15 minutes prior to the service of the meal.  It was perfect at that time and was the same throughout the meal. I had a taste of the grape and the wood immediately.  There was a slight of acid that was gone quite quickly.  The wine, for the most part, was the same wine during the complete meal except for the tannin disappearing quite soon but returned when the bottle was almost gone. Natalya believes that the wine would be a better wine as ...