Event
Open Bottle - Odoardi "Vigna Garrone"
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Time: 04:00pm - 08:00pm
Type: Wine Tasting
Location: The Wine Cabinet
Event Free
Odoardi
"Vigna Garrone"
80% Gaglioppo, 10% Nerello Cappuccio, 5% Cabernet Franc, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Merlot
Nocera Terinese, Calabria, Italy
2004!!!!
Only 400 Case produced!
93 Points!
Wine Spectator
"Inviting from nose to finish, this dense red sports layers
of sun-dried wild berry, plum paste and grilled fig notes wound with layers of espresso bean, rosemary and brick dust on the long, rustic finish. Gaglioppo, Nerello Cappuccio, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Drink now through 2020. 400 cases made.” RP
92 Points!
Robert Parker
The Wine Advocate
"Odoardi’s 2004 Vigna Garrone is fleshy and vibrant in its perfumed violets, black cherries, jammy blackberries, earthiness and sweet toasted oak. It offers superb balance and poise, with elegant, refined tannins that round out the close. Today it comes across as youthful and powerful but it should settle down in another year or two. This blend of 80% Gaglioppo, 10% Nerello Capuccio, 5% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot spent 14 months in French oak. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2019."
Elsewhere priced at $49 – 45
Our Regularly price $42.99
Special Sale Price Only
$24.00
a bottle
and if you buy
6 or more bottles
the price drops to
$19.00
That"s not a typo!
Yes 55% off!!!!
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quantities are limited, so with
that said, first come first served!
Our Thoughts on this wine.....
Garrone is aged 18 months in oak, intense full and deep flavors of field berries and spices. Fleshy and vibrant in its perfumed violets, cherries, jammy black berries, earthiness and sweet toasted oak. It offers superb balance and poise, with elegant, refined tannins that round out the long finish. Certainly will match up with beef, spicy sausages and grilled meats
A Bit about Odoardi…….
Strolling through the Odoardi vineyards awards one magnificent views of
the Mediterranean Sea. The Odoardi winery came to great sucess with award winning wines thanks to the help of talented and reknowned winemaker, Stefano Chioccioli.The Odoardi family, with Stefano’s help, are making wine in their Nocera Trinese vineyards near Catanzaro, in the Southern Italian region of Calabria. Following tradition, the Odoardi family still prunes vines in an alberello pattern, the way their ancestors have since the 3rd century BC. Instead of being trellised, the plants are clipped to resemble small trees allowing the grapes to ripen more evenly and to produce more powerful juice.
The Odoardi family has owned land in Calabria’s Cosenza and Catanzaro provinces for centuries. The 2 young brothers Gregorio and Giovan Battista decided to start making wine in the early nineties quickly putting on the map some of Italy’s lesser known grape varieties and denominations: Savuto DOC and Scavigna DOC.
Calabria was one of the regions chosen by the Romans for the planting of 
vines, but the winemaking tradition had since declined, making this region’s output of wine one of the smallest of Italy. Today, in spite of the efforts by wineries like Odoardi, Calabria remains the most underdeveloped and poor region of the peninsula, where the young generations are often forced to look for greener pastures elsewhere. From 70 hectares planted to vine, Odoardi produces around 300.000 bottles. The vineyards lay in the countryside crossed by the Savuto river and in hills facing the Tyrrhenian sea, which gives much needed ventilation to this scorched and often arid region.
The re-discovery of grapes such as Magliocco Canino, Greco Nero, Gaglioppo and Nerello Cappuccio has been an eye-opener for wine drinkers and Odoardi’s re-interpretation of such historic wines is genuine and innovative at once.