Pro pro Prosecco….

You know how it is. You fancy a splash in a glass of something as crisp as a freshly minted butler and crunchily dry, preferably with a starburst sparkle to lift you out of the August doldrums. Feeling limp-sailed I w(h)etted this craving in Terroirs with a dash of Prosecco Casa Coste Piane (or Credit Crunch Prosecco as I call it) which, for me, always beats to a whimpering pulp so many of your prancing pomp-and-oh-so-circumstantial fizzes hyper-inflated by their bubble reputations of overweening self-regard – and marketing flim-flam. This then is the second top-notch Prosecco that has titivated my taste-buds – (see review for the quirky natural Costadilà). Making the wine in the ancestral way from low yields and letting the native yeasts work their ju-ju evidently seems to be a way of lifting this style of wine to a completely different level.

I will try to record my impressions of each wine that I taste, assess the performance of the wine and see if there is a correlation with the astronomic rhythms of the Maria Thun calendar. Deeply unscientific, I know, but it will be interesting to see how the cumulative experiences stack up and whether there is any pattern at all.

Wine:

2008 Prosecco di Conegliano, Casa Coste Piane

Weather: Sunny and warm – high pressure
Element: Water
Day tasted: An “in-between day”
Other observations: Open up champagne flutes are fantastic; they seem to bring the best out of every sparkling wine that I try in them.
Personal note: This was almost the first drink I had for four days after a spot of food poisoning. Psychologically, I wanted that celebratory hit of sparkling wine and my senses were literally keening. I think my taste buds were sharper in that I had cleared the decks and given them a rest and I was in the mindset to enjoy any wine that much more.