vino

One Italian Thursday Ben and I visited this family-owned vineyard in the Campobasso region. Located within sight of the Adriatic Sea, our first two questions were, "Is it for sale?" and "Do you take IOU's?" Locals can bring their own plastic bottles and get white, rose, rosso or merlot wines pumped gas station-style at about 7 euro/5 liters. The bulk of grapes are harvested by machine and aged in the enormous metal tanks. The select grapes, however, are harvested by hand and the wine is aged in these French oak barrels. Our guide told us that it was very important that the barrels have both dark and quiet for the wine to develop properly. -a&b