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Vol. 6 No. 8 – August 2019
A MONTHLY NEWSPAPER SERVING THE ITALIAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY
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Contents
Achievers ..........................................4 It’s All Good .......................................6 In The Nation/News From Italy..........7 Pagina Italiana...................................8 Per I Bambini.....................................9 The Chef’s Perspective ................... 11 Language ........................................12 Vini D’Italia ......................................14 Let’s Lift a Glass..............................15 In The Region..................................16 Local........................................... 17-18
By Frank Cipparone
Anyone who has read this column for
a while has probably noticed that I have a soft spot for grapes that don’t get a lot of attention. In what is a crowded field they might have been shunned as inferior or pushed to the background by familiar, readily available varieties with mass appeal. Some are so local they’re unknown outside the region where they grow. I once had a Tuscan winemaker admit she’d never heard of some grapes I mentioned from Puglia and Calabria.
Preserving Italy’s diverse vinicultural heritage is a noble endeavor, but not all grapes are created equal or deserve notoriety. There are as many misses as hits on the
road to recognition. While I applaud the commitment of winemakers who rescue
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Perricone: ‘The deep and intense soul of western Italy’
native varieties from obscurity, there are some I’ve tried that just don’t make the cut.
That can’t be said of Perricone, also known as Pugnitello, an unmistakably Sicilian wine I first tasted on a trip a few years ago. It was so different I wanted more of it. Of course, at the time, that meant it was easier to find Waldo than a bottle of Perricone in the states. So, I turned to a pair of true believers for insight: Federico Lombardo di Monte Iato of the well-known Firriato winery in Paceco, and Marilena Barbera, owner and winemaker of Cantine Barbera near Menfi. Both graciously agreed to conduct virtual interviews to spread the news about a unique grape Barbera describes as the “deep and intense soul of western Sicily.”
Perricone’s story reads like that of any
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number of long-forgotten Italian grapes. Near Palermo and Trapani it was blended with
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