Free on Fridays Wine Tasting this Friday, April 15th from 4-7 pm featuring a terrific trio of Southern Italian wines! Swing by Table Wine this Friday and get your weekend off to a good start with the best free wine tasting in Asheville! This week, we’ll take you on a tour of the vineyards of Southern Italy with a tasting featuring some of the regions more interesting and eclectic grape varieties. Ever had Sicilian Insolia or Puglian Negroamaro? If you answered yes, you already know how delicious these wines are. If you answered no, this is your chance to taste some Italian wines beyond Sangiovese and Pinot Grigio. Stop by, taste, learn and save big on all of the featured tasting wines.
All of the featured tasting wines are on sale the day of the tasting: take 10% off if you mix any 3, 15% off if you mix any 6, or 20% off if you mix any 12.
The Wines
1. 2014 Valle dell’Acate Case Ibidini Insolia (Sicily, Italy) – The lovely Gaetana Jacono is the sixth generation of her family to run this esteemed Sicilian estate. She works with indigenous varietals and farms organically to maintain tradition and to preserve the soils for future generations of her family. Insolia is native to Sicily and it yields a lovely, aromatic white wine with notes of lemony citrus, fennel, and mineral. Perfect for seafood or Mediterranean flavored fish dishes, this is a Table Wine favorite.
2. 2013 Vallevo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo (Abruzzo, Italy) – Cantina Frentana is a cooperative of close to 100 growers and their wines are consistently delicious and great values. Their Montepulciano is full of Italian heart and soul with earthy dark cherry, light spice, and medium tannin and acidity. It is the quintessential wine to enjoy with pizza or pasta with red sauce. It also a certified organic wine!
3. 2013 Verso Salento Rosso (Puglia, Italy) – It’s our new Wine of the Weeks and we’re glad it’s back! A blend of Negroamaro, Primitivo and Malvasia Nera made with some appassimento (dried or raisinated) grapes just like Amarone, this is a big red wine. Full bodied and mouth coating, but lush and seamless in texture, it shows off a nice mix of jammy dark fruits, exotic spices, and creamy chocolate notes. Don’t miss you chance to taste and save on this awesome wine!
Josh Spurling
Owner/Operator/Wine Buyer
Table Wine Asheville
828.505.8588 or josh@tablewineasheville.com