My ten “coup de coeur” wines

When human body is stopped - after a starting period of bewilderment - it tends to adapt to the situation that surrounds it, situations that in mathematical analysis are called "boundary conditions". However, with the opportunity to have fewer things to do, you have more time to spend to think, reflect and remember.

Today, while I absently watching video on Youtube, I thought about how many bottles had tasted in the last 5 years, since my passion for wine began.

I don't remember the number (more or less exact), but it doesn't really matter anyway. What matters most is what every single taste has transmitted to me, forming my taste and sensitivity in this subject.

After that, it’s clear that not all wines had the same specific importance. Many wines have disappointed me, many wines have given me an ephemeral pleasure but they have vanished from my mind with the same speed which they had entered, still others have delighted and satisfied my senses.

But olny a little bit wines have been able to excite me and remain in my mind and my heart.

I keep a fervent remembrance of each of these, not only for their absolute value (however very high), but for any characteristic that give back them unique and unrepeatable to my eyes.

They are my 10 favorite wines. They are all Italians (not for personal preferences but only for competences and number of tastings) and also are listed in temporal order of tasting, also because I wouldn’t have been able to make a ranking...


Rosso di Montalcino Fattoi 2013: my "wine first time", my first comparison with a wine of superior quality

Taurasi Elmi 2011: a unique and incredible mouth entrance, an extraordinary mix of elegance and rusticity. I remember that have tasted it five times during that event...

Passito di Pantelleria Ben Ryè 2012: balance over madness ... a pleasantness and a drinkability unthinkable for a wine with this density and this sweetness.

Gewurztraminer Nussbaumer 2013: Amplitude and depth in the mouth that I never imagined possible on a white wine…

Barolo F.lli Barale 1985: the marathon runner ... a nectar with persistence assessable in kilometers, the obviousness of Barolo’s strength

Amarone Riserva La Mattonara Zymè 2004: Perfection in a bottle...only time in my life that instead of a wine I thought I had a silk drape on my mouth

Primitivo ES 2015: the fruit exuberance typical of the best Apulian wines combined to tannins thick like that of a great Sagrantino ... in a word, a bomb!

Taurasi Perillo 2007: the perfect poster of the Irpinia’s Aglianico, with a nose charachterized by a unique elegance and depth, a nose which with the time became warmer but seemed colder...

Brunello Le Chiuse 2013: the essence of Sangiovese... still a baby but a wine with an incredible fusion of acidity and tannin, which will certainly be able to challenge and defeat the passage of time

Flaccianello della Pieve Fontodi 2015: strong and pounding like a fool, but as the same time accurate as great surgeon’s cut.

What are your favorite wines instead?