Les Delices

This thanksgiving holiday once again celebrated in western Sicily, with family and friends, cooking all day, roasted vegetables, pumpkin manchego souffles, southern spoonbread, cornbread dressing, a brined capon, homemade pumpkin pie. The ingredients incredibly fresh and all locally sourced, most of it organic. It doesn’t get much better tan this.

All this will be washed down by 2 glorious sicilian wines:

Grappoli di Grillo Marco De Bartoli 2009:
Pale yellow with a greenish tinge. 
A lime peel nose, with hints of salty sea tang and a rained on grass element. 
The taste is stunning, refreshingly sharp acidity with an endless finish you can taste hints of liquorice like flavor, its minerally, flinty a burst of lemon oil…oh my this will go spectacularly with the roasted vegetables  the creamy corn side dishes and the dressing. Its bracing quality will cut right through all the herbs and aromas. Good stuff.

Tasca D’Almerita Per Sallier de La Tour Syrah 2009

Dark and inky with terracotta color on the edge. We are immediately greeted with vanilla and rose petal notes which develops into a carmelized cakey scent. Quite heady, upon tasting there are dark berries and syrupy cherries fruit components. The finish is long and structured and we taste a faint graphite pencil shavings note that just adds to the complex profile. A perfect match to a brined and air dried capon that has been oven roasted with herbed butter.