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Description:
Erbaluce is a variety shrouded in legend and mystery. The favored creation
myth—to which the locals are very emotionally attached—tells of a child of
celestial beings, Albaluce, born on a bric, or hilltop, near the town of Caluso.
After a long period of much celebration and paying of homage and fresh cheeses
and gift baskets, etc., it was time to pay the piperini and something akin to a
drought descended upon the land. This made the goddess Albaluce very sad
indeed and many tears did she cry. However, up from the ground upon which
those tears fell grew erbaluce vines and the rest blah blah blah.
The wine itself is pure sunlight—brilliant, crisp and clear—and a torrent of
lemon chiffon, white peach and almond. It also shows a modest yet very pleasing
astringency on the back palate. The vines from which this wine is produced are
relatively elderly, which endows the erbaluce with significant depth of flavor and
a strong impression of minerality of which we are profoundly jealous. It has not
seen any wood, but has benefited from significant lees contact, a practice that
gives the wine an extrmely creamy texture to balance its acidity. A model of
Wallendian grace, it is a perfect apéritif and conventional wisdom suggests it will
pair nicely with mild cheeses, shellfish, poached salmon—the usual suspects. We
recommend, however, pairing it with more challenging, high-wire dishes like
scallop carpaccio, grilled wild mushrooms or even the oh-so-Piemontese steak
tartare. Leap, and the net most assuredly will appear.
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