Undici Taverna Rustica Presents Two Special Complimentary Winemaker Events:

On March 24th Two Gentlemen of Verona Featuring Luca Speri and Andrea Pieropan On April 1st Meet and Greet with Andrea Sottimano Renowned Piemonte Wine Producer

Undici Taverna Rustica in Rumson, New Jersey proudly presents two very special meet and greet wine events. Each event features complimentary tastes of outstanding Italian wines, finger food, and conversation. These events are complimentary as part of our ongoing quest to bring our passion and knowledge of Italian wine, cuisine, and culture to you. We strive to be the best Rumson and Red Bank wine restaurant On Monday, March 24th at 7:00pm we bring you “Two Gentlemen of Verona” with wine producers Luca Speri and Andrea Pieropan. On Thursday April 1st from 7-9pm come by for a meet & greet in front of our fireplace with renowned wine producer Andrea Sottimano.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Join us Monday, March 24th at 7pm for a night of wine tasting and talking with famous wine producers Andrea Pieropan and Luca Speri. This event will feature a complimentary tasting of two outstanding wines from each producer. Bottles of these wines will be available for purchase, and each bottle will be signed by its producer. These signed bottles make great gifts for any wineo! Cases will also be available with special pricing. Pieropan Soave 2008 From the hillside vineyards the blend is approximately 85% Garganega, 15% Trebbiano di Soave; brilliant straw yellow with greenish hues; apple pie crust nose. Complex on the palate, with excellent structure and good acidity, soft texture and pleasingly lingering finish. Bottle -  $15 Case -  $165 Pieropan la Rocca 2006 100% later harvested, Garganega grapes from a single vineyard with vines up to 45 years old. white, its nose recalls exotic fruit and nuts, the palate is structured, layered, intense, and persistent. Bottle -  $26 Case (6 pack) -  $148 Speri Ripasso Valpolicellla 2007 70% Corvina Veronese, 20% Rondinella, and 10% from Molinara and other native varieties. A limited production (only 30% of what the DOC would allow). Grapes are harvested in September, soft pressed and fermented in steel tanks.In the 1st week of March, 30% of the Amarone marc are used to re-ferment the wine for approximately 8 days, then aged 1 year in 20 hl. oak barrels with several more months in bottle. Bottle -  $22 Case (6 pack) – $122 Speri Amarone 2004 70% Corvina Veronese, 25% Rondinella, and 5% Corvinone from the Sant Urbano vineyard in the Fumane Commune. After harvest, the grapes are dried on racks for approximately 120 days then fermented in February with 25-35 days of maceration and daily pumping over. The wine is then aged 4 years in medium Slovenian oak casks and new Allier 500 l. tonneaux with an additional 12 months in bottle. An important wine of rare elegance. Bottle -  $96 Case  -  $1,085 Click here to RSVP to this event on Facebook!

Meet and Greet with Andrea Sottimano of Azienda Agricola Sottimano

On Thursday April 1st from 7-9pm we welcome Andrea Sottimano for a special meet and greet with bottle signing. Join us to talk wine with this famous producer, and have a taste of Sottimano Dolcetto d’Alba 2008  and the Sottimano Langhe Nebbiolo 2008. Andrea will be signing bottles and we will be offering special pricing on bottles and cases of these amazing wines. Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate called the Sottimano Dolcetto d’Alba 2008 “the essence of first-rate Dolcetto from Barbaresco. Antonio Galloni of The Wine Advocate wrote on the Sottimano Langhe Nebbiolo saying, “Anyone serious about Nebbiolo must consider the Langhe Nebbiolo. 100% Basarin fruit, 14 months in oak… This is a Barbaresco in everything except name. Great juice.” Sottimano Dolcetto d’Alba 2008 Bottle – $12.50 Case – 142.50 Sottimano Langhe Nebbiolo 2008 Bottle – $17.50 Case – $176.50 The Sottimano vineyards have been called “A property that continues its rapid ascent into the top echelon of the region’s finest estates.” – The Wine Advocate Notable are the two single-vineyard Dolcettos, the “Bric del Salto” from the Fausoni cru, and another from the Cottà cru.  Beautifully ripe and exotic, “Pairolero” is delicious barrique-aged Barbera d’Alba that got 91 points from Tanzer and 90 points from Spectator for the 2005 vintage. Young Andrea and father Rino Sottimano have been forging ahead over the past seven years to produce wines of outstanding quality at their small estate on the border of Neive and Barbaresco. In the Neive township, Sottimano produces rich and concentrated Barbarescos with beautiful deep color and fine-grained tannins from their vineyards in the crus Cottà, Currà, Fausoni, Basarin and Pajoré. Click here to RSVP to this event on Facebook!

More on the Gentlemen of Verona

Pieropan A few miles east of Verona lies the ancient and timeless commune of Soave. In the heart of the old town is the home of the Pieropans, the historical Palazzo Pullici, built in 1460 and purchased by Leonildo Pieropan, Senior, in 1890, when he founded the homonymous winery and ‘invented’ Recioto di Soave. The founder’s grandson, Leonildo (“Nino”) has been called “the noble soul of this appellation,” and has proven himself to be a veniculture genius, never yielding a single quality inch vis-à-vis the general trend towards anonymous supermarket quaffs. The new Pieropan generation has increasingly come to the fore: Nino & Teresita’s sons, Andrea and Dario, both with university degrees in viticulture and oenology. The new property, located at Monte Garzon, is close to a nature reserve and perfect for the production of full, complex and elegant reds: rich in limestone and clay. Speri Valpolicella Classico is a hilly nook within northern Italy’s Veneto region, covering one fifth of the entire Valpolicella DOC and corresponding to just five communes. The Speri’s presence in this heartland of fine winemaking goes back to 1874, though the original homestead and cellars are even older: 1580. From generation to generation for well over a century, this grass-roots family has handed down a heritage of authenticity and passion for the soil and its fruits. Handed down, literally: every grape going into a Speri wine is estate-owned and estate-grown, personally sculpted by the Speris with just as much pride in the craft of viniculture, the manual, hard-working side to it, as in its art. In the words of one of the Speri brothers, Carlo, “The Speris are a clan.” He is flanked by vineyardists Eliseo, Marco, and Giampietro, winemaker Alberto, marketing manager Giampaolo, and the ever present young Luca, Carlo’s son. All of them Speri: a shining example of Italy’s most authentic, ancient, successful business philosophy: keep it in the family.

La Lista Stagionale (Seasonal Special List)

Vini Bianchi (White Wines)

977 Allegrini Soave 2007 (Veneto) $26
(80% Garganega 20% Chardonnay)

981 Zenato Lugana 2007 (Veneto) $40
(100% Trebbiano)

630 Villa Martina Tocai Friuliano 2007 (Friuli) $26
(100% Tocai Friuliano)

562 Instituto San Michele Riesling 2008 (Trentino) $48
(100% Riesling)

730 Bisci Verdicchio di Matelica 2007 (Marche) $38
(100% Verdicchio)

736 Ciu Ciu “Le Merlettaie” Vino Pecorino 2007 (Marche) $45
(100% Pecorino)

255 Rocca delle Macie Vernaccia 2008 (Toscana) $35
(100% Fiano)

1651 Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo 2007 (Campania) $49
(100% Greco di Tufo)

1657 Feudi di San Gregorio Fiano di Avellino 2007 (Campania) $52
(100% Fiano di Avellino)

676 Ermes Pavese Nathan Blanc de la Morgex et de la Salle 2007 (Valle d’Aosta) $64
(100% Prie Blanc)

1934 MandraRossa Fiano 2008 (Sicilia) $30
(100% Fiano)

1935 Tasca d’Almerita Regaleali Bianco 2007 (Sicilia) $38
(34% Inzolia 33% Catarrato 33% Grecanico)

1945 Donnafugata Anthilia Bianco 2007 (Sicilia) $41
(50% Ansonica 50% Catarrato)

1732 Tormaresca Chardonnay 2007 (Puglia) $35
(100% Chardonnay)

Vini Rosati (Rose Wines)

2101 Tasca d’Almerita Regaleali Rose 2007 (Sicilia) $39
(100% Nerello Mascalese)

2111 Feudi di San Gregorio Rosato 2007 (Campania) $40
(100% Aglianico)

Vini Rossi (Red Wines)

500 San Pietro Lagrein 2005 (Trentino) $40
(100% Lagrein)

505 Lechthaler Pinot Nero 2006 (Trentino) $40
(100% Pinot Nero)

506 Cantina Rotaliana Teroldego 2006 (Trentino) $42
(100% Teroldego)

507 Marzemino Battistotti 2007 (Trentino) $55
(100% Marzemino)

19 Sassetti La Querciolina Montecucco 2005 (Toscana) $40
(100% Sangiovese Grosso della Maremma)

56 San Polo Rosso di Montalcino 2005 (Toscana) $50
(100% Sangiovese Grosso della Maremma)

20 Val delle Rose Morellino di Scansano 2004 (Toscana) $42
(100% Sangiovese di Maremma)

5 Fattoria dei Barbi Brusco 2006 (Toscana) $40
(100% Sangiovese)

143 Reneiri Brunello di Montalcino 2003 (Toscana) $120
(100% Sangiovese Grosso)

160 Col di Bacche Cupinero 2005 (Toscana) $120
(100% Merlot)

182 Tenuta San Guido Guidalberto 2006 (Toscana) $125
(60% Cabernet Sauvignon 40% Merlot)

1204 Cantine Ciolli Silene 2004 (Lazio) $40
(100% Cesanese)

1208 Principe Pallavicini Amarasco 2005 (Lazio) $48
(100% Cesanese)

1200 Falesco Vitiano 2006 (Lazio) $40
(34% Sangiovese 33% Cabernet Sauvignon 33% Merlot)

1701 Li Veli Salento Passamante Rosso 2007 (Puglia) $35
(100% Negroamaro)

1705 Candido Salice Salentino Riserva 2001 (Puglia) $40
(50% Negroamaro 50% Malvasia Negra)

1715 Castel del Monte “Melograno” Santa Lucia 2005 (Puglia) $41
(100% Uva di Troia)

1710 La Corte Negroamaro 2004 (Puglia) $40
(100% Negroamaro)

996 Castello di Luzzano Bonarda Oltrepo Pavese Carlino 2008 (Lombardia) $42
(100% Bonarda)

301 Renato Rati Torriglione Barbera d’Alba 2008 (Piemonte) $40
(100% Barbera)

304 Seghesio Barbera d’Alba 2006 (Piemonte) $45
(100% Barbera)

370 Azelia Barolo 2004 (Piemonte) $105
(100% Nebbiolo)

452 Sottimano Mate 2007 (Piemonte) $40
(100% Brachetto)

701 Le Terrazze Rosso Conero 2005 (Le Marche) $38
(100% Montepulciano)

611 Rossorosso Pignolo 2004 (Friuli) $42
(100% Pignolo)

605 Marco Felluga 2005 (Friuli) $49
(100% Merlot)

2004 Sella & Mosca Cannonau Riserva 2005 (Sardegna) $40
(100% Cannonau)

2002 Mesa Buio 2005 (Sardegna) $47
(100% Carignano del Sulcis)

1050 Argillae Sinuoso 2006 (Umbria) $40
(50% Merlot 50% Cabernet Sauvignon)

1053 Le Velette Rosso di Spicca 2007 (Umbria) $28
(80% Sangiovese 10% Merlot 10% Lanaiolo)

1211 Falesco Montiano 2003 (Umbria) $90
(100% Merlot)

900 Giuseppe Campagnola Merlot – Corvina 2004 (Veneto) $38
(50% Merlot 50% Corvina)

910 Mastino Valpolicella Ripasso 2003 (Veneto) $42
(34% Corvina 33% Rondinella 33% Molinara)

919 Zenato Merlot 2004 (Veneto) $39
(100% Merlot)

1449 Tenuta Le Querce Il Viola Aglianico 2004 (Basilicata) $38
(100% Aglianico)

1600 Fattoria Selvanova Aglianico Vigna Antica 2005 (Campania) $38
(100% Aglianico)

1609 Molettieri Irpinia Aglianico 2005 (Campania) $55
(100% Aglianico)

1800 Terre Borboniche Ciro Brigante 2005 (Calabria) $40
(100% Gaglioppo)

1802 Odoardi Savuto 2004 (Calabria) $36
(45% Gaglioppo 15% Greco Nero 15% Nerello 15% Magliocco 10% Sangiovese)

1811 Librandi Gravello 2004 (Calabria) $70(
60% Gaglioppo 40% Cabernet Sauvignon)

1892 Caruso & Minini Nero d’Avola 2007 (Sicilia) $32
(100% Nero d’Avola)

1901 Tenuta Terre Nere Etna Rosso 2008 (Sicilia) $33
(100% Nerello)

1915 Baglio di Pianetto Ramione 2004 (Sicilia) $36
(50% Nero d’Avola 50% Merlot)

1914 Baglio Del Sole Nero d ‘Avola 2006 (Sicilia) $39
(100% Nero d’Avola)

1890 Cusumano Benuara 2006 (Sicilia) $40
(50% Nero d’Avola 50% Syrah)

1891 Colosi Nero d’ Avola 2007 (Sicilia) $40
(100% Nero d’Avola)

Vini Dolci (Dessert Wines)

2307 Principe Pallavicini Stillato 2006 (Lazio) 500ml $48
(100% Malvasia)

2316 Fattoria Lavacchio Vin Santo del Chianti Rufina Riserva 2001 (Toscana) $70
(80% Malvasia 20% Trebbiano)

Vini al Bicchiere (Wines By the Glass)

Vini Bianchi (White Wines)

256 Bibi Graetz Bianco di Casamatta 2008 (Toscana) $8.5

(100% Vermentino)

977 Allegrini Soave 2007 (Veneto) $8.5

(80% Garganega 20% Chardonnay)

630 Villa Martina Tocai Friuliano 2007 (Friuli) $8.5

(100% Tocai Friuliano)

1732 Tormaresca Chardonnay 2007 (Puglia) $9

(100% Chardonnay)

1935 Tasca d’Almerita Regaleali Bianco 2007 (Sicilia) $9

(34% Inzolia 33% Catarrato 33% Grecanico)

1934 MandraRossa Fiano 2008 (Sicilia) $10

(100% Fiano)

979 Bertani Pinot Grigio 2007 (Veneto) $10

(100% Pinot Grigio)

982 Anselmi San Vincenzo 2007 (Veneto) $10

(80% Garganega 15% Chardonnay 5% Soave Trebbiano)

1146 Salviano Orvieto Classico Superiore 2007 (Umbria) $10

(30% Trebbiano Toscano 30% Grechetto 20% Chardonnay 20% Sauvignon Blanc)

536 Terlano ‘Classico’ 2008 (Trentino) $12

(Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay)

249 Teruzzi & Puthod Terre di Tufi 2007 (Toscana) $12

(80% Vernaccia 7% Chardonnay 7% Malvasia 6% Vermentino)

637 Vigna Traverso Sauvignon Blanc 2007 (Friuli) $12

(100% Sauvignon Blanc)

Vini Rossi (Red Wines)

6 Bibi Graetz Casamatta 2008 (Toscana) $8.5

(100% Sangiovese)

53 Di Lupo Chianti 2007 (Toscana) $8.5

(100% Sangiovese)

1400 Di Majo Norante Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Molise) $9

(100% Cabernet Sauvignon)

309 Pasquale Pelissero Dolcetto d’Alba 2008 (Piemonte) $9

(100% Dolcetto)

905 Villa Rocca Pinot Nero Pinot Nero 2007 (Veneto) $10

(100% Pinot Nero)

902 Rallo Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore 2006 (Veneto) $10

(70% Corvina 30% Rondinella)

700 Le Terrazze Rosso Conero 2008 (Le Marche) $10

(100% Montepulciano)

301 Renato Ratti Torriglione Barbera d’Alba 2008 (Piemonte) $11

(100% Barbera)

1901 Tenuta Terre Nere Etna Rosso 2008 (Sicilia) $11

(100% Nerello)

54 Donna Laura Bramosia Chianti Classico 2006 (Toscana) $12

(80% Sangiovese 20% Merlot)

8 Salviano Turlo 2007 (Umbria) $12

(50% Sangiovese 30% Cabernet Sauvignon 20% Merlot)

6 Bibi Graetz Casamatta 2008 (Toscana) $8.5

(100% Sangiovese)

53 Di Lupo Chianti 2007 (Toscana) $8.5

(100% Sangiovese)

1400 Di Majo Norante Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 (Molise) $9

(100% Cabernet Sauvignon)

309 Pasquale Pelissero Dolcetto d’Alba 2008 (Piemonte) $9

(100% Dolcetto)

905 Villa Rocca Pinot Nero Pinot Nero 2007 (Veneto) $10

(100% Pinot Nero)

902 Rallo Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore 2006 (Veneto) $10

(70% Corvina 30% Rondinella)

700 Le Terrazze Rosso Conero 2008 (Le Marche) $10

(100% Montepulciano)

301 Renato Ratti Torriglione Barbera d’Alba 2008 (Piemonte) 1$1

(100% Barbera)

1901 Tenuta Terre Nere Etna Rosso 2008 (Sicilia) $11

(100% Nerello)

54 Donna Laura Bramosia Chianti Classico 2006 (Toscana) $12

(80% Sangiovese 20% Merlot)

8 Salviano Turlo 2007 (Umbria) $12

(50% Sangiovese 30% Cabernet Sauvignon 20% Merlot)

Vini Rosati (Rose Wines)

2101 Tasca d’Almerita Regaleali Rose 2007 (Sicilia) $9

(100% Nerello Mascalese)

Vini Dolci (Dessert Wines)

2300 La Gaminella Moscato D’Alba 2007 (Piemonte) $10

2305 Marenco Brachetto D’Acqui 2007 (Piemonte) $10

2318 Diecigrani Zibbibo N/V (Sicilia) $10

2101 Tasca d’Almerita Regaleali Rose 2007 (Sicilia) $9

(100% Nerello Mascalese)

Vini Dolci (Dessert Wines)

2300 La Gaminella Moscato D’Alba 2007 (Piemonte) $10

2305 Marenco Brachetto D’Acqui 2007 (Piemonte) $10

2318 Diecigrani Zibbibo N/V (Sicilia) $10

2310 Maculan Dindarello 2004 (Veneto) $14

Vini Spumanti (Sparkling Wines)

2225 Zonin Prosecco N/V (Veneto) $12