BOOZE TYPE: Wine
PRICE: $9 at Freshdirect.com
RATING: B+
When I looked over at my bedside table and saw it stacked high with four empty wine bottles, I knew this meant one of two things: either I was an alcoholic, or I really just needed to post about some freaking wine already! I’m leaning towards option two. So, clearing out the wine backlog!
This choice was a case of me doing what I do not do often: starting with a food and working backwards to a wine. I was planning on making a pasta with a spicy bean and tomato sauce, and the recipe called for red wine. A little bit of googling things like “wine good with tomato yum” (on this note, man, I am getting weird search hits for this site. I obviously should have never mentioned the word “urine”, and now that I’ve said it twice, it’ll just get weirder.) and crossreferencing those results with the wine selection on Freshdirect, I came out of it with this bottle of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo.
It was perfect in tomato sauce. Fairly dry, not too tannic, with a nice blend of acidity and sweetness that complimented the tomato perfectly. And it served quite well in drinking, too! I enjoyed this wine and it matched to my meal very well, but it didn’t otherwise knock my socks off. I think I would find it a little uninteresting just for drinking on its own. It was a little fruity, a little spicy, but lacking in the outstanding character I like in my plain ol’ gettin’ drunk wines. Aces with tomato, though, and I will seek it out again for my sauces, or with pizza.
BUY IT AGAIN: Perfect with tomatoes, so very likely.
