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Undici Brings the World of Wine to Rumson

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.

VeronaTwo Gentlemen of Verona
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

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SottimanoMeet 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 Rino and Andrea SottimanoSottimano 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.


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ProducerInfoMore 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 Pieropan Family(“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 The Speri 'Clan'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.
This entry was posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 7:22 pm and is filed under Events, Wine.

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