”Summer Wines…From Different Perspectives"
We are back with another opportunity to explore the wines of the world with Master Sommelier Chuck Furuya! On this night we will be featuring 4 wines. Each more apropos for sipping during the warm months, each from different regional & cultural perspectives. How often do we have learning opportunities like this come around?
$45 PP + Tax & Tip
Served with charcuterie boards with Prosciutto di Parma, Manchego Cheese, Local Goat's Milk Tomme, Charred Ricotta Salata, Nicoise, Castelvetrano Olives, Picholine, and Macadamia Pralines.
2021 MAXIME MAGNON | La Demarrante (France)
A real revolutionary, "game changing” winery and winemaker. A real prodigy. Having not a lot of money, he purchased land in the RUGGED, remote terrain of Corbières—high elevation, mostly rock & very little topsoil. Despite the bleak & savageness of his vineyard sites, his resulting, mainly Carignan based—red wines are so wonderfully delicious, juicy and so savory at the same time. A truly welcoming and thirst quenching wine.
2020 CAMILLE MÉLINAND | Chiroubles (France)
For the warmer Summer months is there anything more pleasurable than gulping well chilled Beaujolais? It is at least one of the finalists on that list of guilty pleasures.
Chiroubles is one of the 10 CRU villages of Beaujolais. In Chiroubles, Camille farms the highest Cru in Beaujolais at 400m, a 1ha lieu-dit called Tempéré, which is located on a very steep south-facing slope of 35% grade. To work the soil, he has to utilize cables and winches for plowing. It is painful, manual work, but Camille feels the results in the vineyard are worth the massive effort. The vineyard is planted to 50-year-old, gobelet-trained gamay vines in pink granite. All of that comes from a healthy sense of passion in achieving his dream.
2020 MARQUILIANI | Rosé Gris (France)
One of the world’s TOP rosé wines…in this case from the wild, remote, sun baked island of Corsica…and a New Age, contemporary and female vigneron. Light & fleeting…and wonderfully delicious, seamless and incredibly food friendly. A long time wine guru wrote a note a few years back…
”This wine is for you Chuck. It’s like drinking a cloud, it is so light & weightless. After you swallow, all that’s left is perfume”
While I am not so big on poetic verse, I am a HUGE fan of this Domaine’s rosé wines.
2020 VIRGONA | Salina Bianco (Italy)
I am absolutely thrilled a few bottles of this wine made its way to Lāna’i for this tasting. As regulars well know, by now, we are huge fans of family owned / operated, indigenous, heritage vines AND a strong sense of place character. Salina is a tiny island (part of the Aeolian chain off of northeast Sicily. It was created by volcanic activity that is still erupting a couple of islands away). Its small size means that the surrounding ocean has quite an influence. And, here is a family growing and making a white wine from 3 indigenous grapes—Catarratto, Inzolia and Malvasia. It is totally about a stoniness from the soil…salinity from the sea…and sun baked herbs / shrub that hover around the vineyard. AND, it is dry, crisp, uplifting & ideal for Summertime fare. Come & get it!!!!! While you can.