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| Tonight, for our last tasting for the year, we have our friends Ross Bingham and Ruby Martin of Critical Mass Selections in the shop to pour three wines from their import portfolio of Italian natural wines. Through a nexus of strange coincidence, I had known Ross many years ago but we’d long lost touch: his mother had once entrusted him, a garrulous and obstreperous child, to my care one summer when she’d hired me as an au pair for a few months. I hadn’t seen Ross since he was a child and stared at him in disbelief when he darkened my doorstep not long ago, toting not a grass-stained football but black bag of wine–this could not be the same Ross Bingham…but it was! Although today his tastes back in the day ran the gamut from Ribena to Flake candy bars today they have matured, and he now goes for orange wine and gin. We cannot serve or sell gin at the shop, but we do a brisk business in orange wine, and so it is fitting that we will start tonight with one of the orange wines that Ross imports. We are also tasting a delightful, dry, and playful red sparkling wine from the Veneto, and a much more serious Taurasi, grown on the volcanic terroir of Mt Vesuvius.
Franco Terpin “Quinto Quarto” Pinot Sivi Friuli 2018 |