Think grilled steak, burgers, chicken, duck or swordfish. Oven-roast them. Pan-fry them. The wonderful wines we’ve found for you are the real thing, as close to organic as you can find, and made from the vineyard’s grapes in the Puglia region of Italy, where the winds from two seas work their magic.
The vineyard is Castello Monaci, and a young, charming family member joined us on the show — Luigi Seracca Guerrieri. It’s amazing to us that these pure and real wines are selling in our region for $15 a bottle, but they are, according to one of our frequent wine contributors, Mark Raymond, who hunts down value wines around the world with his colleagues at Frederick Wildman.
1. 2012 Piluna: This is a hearty and bold wine, yet silky smooth and sprightly from red berries, but tantalizing as it closes with a whiff of anise as you swallow. Whatever. It’s just good drinking wine, food or no food.
2. 2013 Liante: This is a fresh, vibrant wine that would be terrific with red sauce, or a brick-oven pizza, or we imagine it with a grilled chicken breast drizzled with a puttanesca sauce. We had it with Chris Prosperi’s chicken marsala with a red sauce… perfect.
WANT IT? HERE’S A TIP! Call your wine store to ask if these are on the shelf so you don’t waste a trip. If not, tell them the distributor of these wines is Frederick Wildman. They should have it ready for you to pick up in 24 hours.
(Food Schmooze® wine selections often sell-out so its best to jump in quickly if something sounds good.)
