Romance of Dirt: Tasting Wine with a Grower
Posted by Cathy Huyghe on Tue, Mar 15, 2011 @ 10:34 AM
The thing many people don't really get about wine is that it's an agricultural product.
Agriculture isn't especially romantic, nor does it jive especially well with the (misleading) image of wine in more urbane settings.
But it is what it is.
And what it is, is a crop. With all its attendant insects and pests and fertilizer and irrigation and and and.
So when a winemaker comes to you and says they grew the grapes themselves -- that they're a grower first, not just a blender of finished juice -- you know they're in it for the long haul.
And that they've got a grass-roots understanding (literally) of the grapes and what the grapes can do and what the grapes can best express.
That's what you'll get TOMORROW NIGHT at the Andover Inn with Ginaluco Grasso of the Elio Grasso estate near Alba in the Piedmont.
No mass production. 14 hectares, which is what they've got under cultivation, can in no way be considered "mass."
No BS marketing.
Just a winemaker-grower and his wines.
Check for dirt under his fingernails.
WHAT: Winemaker-Grower Meet and Greet with Gianluca Grasso
WHERE: Andover Inn, 4 Chapel Avenue, Andover
WHEN: Wednesday, March 16 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
COST: $20
MUST PURCHASE TICKETS AHEAD OF TIME THROUGH ANDOVER LIQUORS.