Chicago 5/18: Giacosa barolos and barbarescos @ Antico

With the summer coming around let’s have some fun and drink a bunch of giacosa. This should also give some time for sourcing as well. There’s no need to have a limit on vintages or labels, red or white, it’s all good to me. Let’s shoot for 8 people, but I’ll cap this at 10 if there is enough interest


Me- 97 Rocche Falleto di Serralunga di alba
Ben- 01 Falleto di Serralunga di alba
tim m- 99 Rocche Falleto di Serralunga di alba
mark russo-
matt- 99 Barbaresco Santo Stefano
bill- 00 Barbaresco Asilli Riserva
ward- 00 barbaresco rabaja
mister Fister- 96 Falleto di Serralunga di Alba
jordan- 01 Barbaresco Asilli
tim- 00 Falleto di serralunga di alba

hoping to make this.

I’d be interested - date looks ok for me at this point.

I’m in for the 1998 or 1999 Rocche Falletto…I think I still have a bottle or two of the Giacosa Arneis from 2006 or 2007 and can bring that as well as it would be a nice way to start (I may also have a Giacosa Sparkling as well to freshen the pallate before the reds).

great, looks like we have some traction for this. I think another person or two would completely seal this

Count me in, let me root around and see what I have, looking forward to it!

I figured this would be up your alley bill [cheers.gif]

I’m interested. Thoughts as to venue?

I’m open to suggestions on the venue. I’d love to see if something can be worked out corkage-wise at antico. Is volare open again? I know they were doing some remodeling, but I don’t know if it’s permanent or if it actually was temporary

I’ll be there is spirit [cheers.gif]

Wow, Antico sounds excellent! I had not heard of them previously, are they relatively new? It will probably be difficult to work out a good corkage deal on a Friday. Any chance we could do this on a Tuesday? We would probably have more leverage. Looks like they’re closed on Mondays…

Home Bistro?

they don’t take groups of more than 6 on fridays or saturdays unfortunately


once we get more firmed up on the amount of people, I’ll try to see if antico would be willing to cap the corkage at 90 or 100. I’d really love to do the dinner there. I’ll also check into la luce. I figure our group may be too large for filippos, but I could check in with them as well

Put me down for a 2000 Falleto di Serralunga di alba.

aweome, glad to see that you’ll be around tim

so, with that the wait-list starts. This is shaping up to be a great tasting

fingers crossed…

but it looks like i’ll be a chicago resident in plenty of time for this shindig.

huzzah.

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sign that offer sheet tooch

i will as long as there’s a decent Tottenham bar in town…otherwise, no way jose.

I have just the crazy place for you [basic-smile.gif]

I have an update everyone, we are on for Antico in bucktown. The corkage is capped at $100 regardless of how many bottles we open. We just need to buy a bottle of bubbles off the list(I don’t see this being a problem).

Its looking like this will shape up great. How does an 8pm start time sound for everyone? I will email those involved in this that don’t check into this board

appears they only have 3 champagne options:

Aubry Brut NV
Duval-Leroy Brut NV
Gaston Chiquet “Brut Tradition” NV

split ten ways, all should be dirt cheap.