2003 Ada Nada Barbaresco 'Valeirano'
Dear Friends,
The weather’s gotten so cold here in Burgundy, I’m actually jealous of my family who are basking in the tropical Boston sunshine. Basking indeed, because they ain’t working, which is why my newsletter has been getting rare. While I’m celebrating what will be the end of the ‘bling’ years, I’m also taking protectionist measures like honing my hunting and gathering skills. Last weekend I witnessed a lightening up of the old French chauvinists — a band of hunters actually let me follow them around while they traipsed along in the lovely but frosty Maconnais hills, strategizing how to get the pheasants to flutter out. You would think the GOP and the French would get along much better.
Speaking of, the other morning while shuffling through the forbidden frozen game drawer, I found, among other wild animals, what appeared to be a deer leg. Springs of rosemary, thyme garlic, shallots, a leftover half drunk bottle of Cote de Nuits and a couple of beers later, I sat pretty while my sweet Bambi cooked low and slow. Eight hours later, I deglazed my cocotte and pulled out some perfectly fitting Piedmontese Nebbiolos (sometimes we tire of the Chambertin).
I used to sell this particular Barbaresco for double the price when I was a retailer. 100% Nebbiolo, (the Italian answer to Burgundy), handmade by Giovani and Gian Carlo Nada, a father and son team, along with a gaggle of wives and daughters that would melt your heart, who work with low yields (28hl per hectare). No chemicals, not acidified, no hangover, no bling. Elegantly ripe and sweet delicious dark cherry, earthy, rustic bit refined, structured but quite silky. Brought up in small oak casks for almost two years, racked and unfiltered. You can drink this or cellar for 20 years. This is a 2003 with true balance.
Back in Brooklyn, I recently attended a wine-serioso BYOB party at the legendary Tommasso’s. Dragging along my dear-old-dad who was quite shocked by the 50 or so wines that went whizzing through our glasses while Tommasso and his lovely redheaded wife belted out some kind of nouveau opera, the evening was dominated by old Gajas and Rinaldis. At one end of the table, I spotted an innocent magnum — within which was this very Barbaresco from Ada Nada that I’m offering today. It was incredibly precise, clean, rich but delicate — not sludgy nor monolithic. Others commented how surprisingly gorgeous it was but no one recognized the producer (which usually marks a good buy).
2003 Ada Nada Barbaresco ‘Valeirano’
$27 per bottle – compare at $52
No minimum. Last of its kind, so order accordingly
Offer closes Sunday. Sitting in a cool and damp cellar in New York - ready to go immediately. (Need wine for Thanksgiving?).
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Slainte,
Mary Thoreau Wine Society
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By Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor, a Bostonian who has been involved the New York wine trade forever, recently moved full-time to Burgundy to send dispatches from the trenches: “It’s dirty work, but someone has to do it.” Mary is known for her love for elegant and nuanced European wines. She works for the Thoreau Wine Society, where members receive weekly wine offerings along with musings about life, love and travel (ThoreauWineSociety.com).
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