OK. Trying to branch out more and instead of Champers, looking into some Prosecco. Can anyone offer some up the names of good producers and I’ll try to find them.
Tanorè
Col Saliz
Andreola
Toffoli
Althea
Bisol
Rugerri
Col Veteraz
Make shure it is Prosecco di Valdobiadenne or Conegliano, NOT industrial IGT Venezia stuff.
Bisson [in the Neal Rosenthal line card] is very, very nice this year.
Two years ago, Nino Franco [Vin Divino] was outstanding, although I didn’t like this year’s shipment quite as much.
BTW, when should the industry be shipping the new releases?
Sometime soon?
Nathan, the quality guys keep the must in tanks at 1° Centigrade and then ferment and bottle as needed so the product is always fresh WHEN SHIPPED. YMMV re stores inventories. We burn through them so there’s no problem but many shops have old inventory.
I do work with this brand, but they are very, very good–Adami. My favorite is their Giardino.
I was just wondering whether there was a standard time of the year when new batches of Prosecco ship [especially the NV stuff] - like the way that Beaujolais Nouveau always ships in time to be here for Thanksgiving [or whatever the equivalent is in France].
As another example, for German Riesling, we tend to see the new vintages during about a two month span beginning in roughly November of the year following the vintage.
Anyway, it seems like we ought to be seeing big shipments of 2008 vintage [and “largely 2008” NV] Prosecco at about this time of year.
We got some as early as April. They don’t age that stuff. Ferment, bottle, ship…
But you guys are direct importing, right?
For those of us who are on our own, out here in flyover country, how would we know that e.g. Vin Divino has shipped a new “vintage” of a NV Nino Franco Rustico?
Could this happen at any time of the year?
Or would it tend to happen in, say, the October/November timeframe each year?
The problem would be knowing how much inventory the local distributor carries in reserve and how fast they turn it. AND, it they are a big liquor house, the possibility that they would put the NEW batch of NV stuff on TOP of the old batch and then sell that before finally getting to the older stuff.
I really like Ca’Vittoria, available via North Berkeley Imports.
we sell this one - Val D’Oca
delicious.
Paul, that’s from the Cantina di Valdobiaddene Co-op, yes? Who imports it?
There is some fly-by-night little guy who has Val d’Oca in NY…