Happiness is a new wine

It gives you a lift, having new wines to present.  A new region, a new producer, a new grape or type -- it's all good.

The new wines are in the warehouse now, having cleared customs and inspection in record time.  Jeff and I will start taking them out soon after the July 4th holiday weekend.  The new wines and producers will be on the Domenico Selections site before too long.

What are these new wines?  

The wines this time number four:

* San Vito 2004 ripasso from Villa Monteleone.  My first reaction on tasting this was, Who needs Amarone?  This is a complete wine and so much more drinkable than Amarone, which, many will agree, is a wine strictly for cold winter nights and long feasts of venison or wild boar.  

Note: By early September we will also have Villa Monteleone's Santa Lena 2007 Valpolicella Classico. 

* Vigna Segreta 2007 Falanghina from Mustilli, a stunning white with a rich mouthfeel due to malolactic fermentation (and no oak).  

In September we will offer three additional Mustilli wines, including their best red, the Aglianico Cesco di Nece 2006.   

* Serra del Prete 2006 and Pian del Moro 2006, two Aglianici del Vulture (Basilicata) from Musto-Carmelitano.  Serra del Prete is the one I prefer because it touches no oak.

Come September...   

Again I remind you, we will add a Freisa from Cascina Gilli in the Asti zone of Piemonte, two Montepulciani d'Abruzzo from Costantini and a terrific Chardonnay spumante from our friends at I Stefanini in Soavelandia.