now for some time is becoming a fixture on New Year's dinner with two old high school classmates and universities. The first year living in Beijing and come back only for the Christmas holidays. The second lives in London where he is attending a master's degree in journalism. A native of Nice, is not driving. Consequently, the choice of the board of the traditional reunion wheel comfort always around the lakeside town of the writer Andrea Vitali .
And so, for the second consecutive year, we went to dinner Orrido, hotel restaurant loved by the same author A window overlooking the lake and other best-sellers set in the Fascist period.
The restaurant's cuisine reflects perfectly the soul half Lecco mid thirties the family that runs it for many years.
dumplings in soup or butter and sage, buckwheat Taleggio ravioli, braised venison with polenta and fresh water fish in carp. And so on. Do not you kill in quantity but the food is good and we met up from the table to go to the bench for a round of grappa and pay an account that never exceeds 32 € , bottle of wine included. This time it touched the Nino Negri Quadrio .
Made with grapes chiavennasca softened with a 10% merlot , from all five sub-areas of Valtellina, this red is named from the fifteenth century square castle Chiuro, built by Filippo Visconti in 1432 and belonged to the governor of Stefano Quadrio Valtellina in the fifteenth century, before being bought by Nino Negri 1897. Since then, the castle houses the company, from 1986 passed under the IRP (Italian Wines Group ).
The wine is garnet red color clear and bright. At the nose the aromas are intense, complex and fine of blueberries, cherries , more and red flowers withered , which start embracing also a well known herb and ethereal.
The mouth has a structure of b uona freshness and flavor, tannin and gives the sensation of dryness that sticky notes on the language of plum, licorice and sweet tobacco , clearing the table from the palate strong flavors of the Taleggio ravioli and braised venison with polenta. A really good wine, personality, yet easy to drink, at a price that the restaurant is around 16 € .
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