Från och med söndag kväll, via måndag, tisdag och onsdag och ända fram till torsdag kväll var planen att levern skulle få vila lite.
Föreslog därför för hustrun att yoghurt med musli och skivade/rivna rotfrukter var en perfekt middag. Hon kontrade med grannens italienska restaurang UTAN vin. Jag kontrade med att jag sätter aldrig min fot där om jag skall vanhelga kockens urvalda råvaror och suveräna hantverk. Hon accepterade en
Barbera d'Alba av Sandrone (SB: blunda!)
2009 och vi gick glada iväg, men. Hiskeligt värre! La Verdura var stängd... På stående fot bestämde vi att YAKINIKU skulle bli ändå godare, men med en lite enklare Barolo (det luktar rejält med stekos och restaurangen har enbart vinglas i miniatyr)".
Och, som av en händelse, så inhandlade jag ju idag, på REA, en flaska:
2009 Fontanafredda Barolo, 86 p
2014-04-15, 180kr idag på REA i Shibuya (Tokyo)
- Just about 'very good', did well with yaki niku, even if we'd expected some more 'ka-hoonies" than this btl's rather flaccid tannins presented...
Nose of red flowers, red berries and "Italian cherries".
Mouth is well built, but I would never be able to pick this one out as a Barolo, not even as a Nebbiolo-based wine. Because: it has none of the character traits and is a completely off-center structure with M-sized plump tannins, M+ acids of sorts and rather simple fruit, instead of the vibrant tension that the strong tannins create with the acids and (especially) with the fruit on any good Barolo day.
But this was not a good Barolo day.
However, as we had yakiniku, the wine could shine on stage. And given the price as the cheapest Barolo purchased for five yrs, we were very comfortable with it.
As Fontanafredda also produces "Vigna La Rosa", I'm almost always ready to forgive them anything.
This wine is far from a great Barolo, but if you find it on SALE (like we did) than it may be worth considering as a simple grilled-meats-wine.
At noisy, fried-smelly, superbly delicious Yakinikuya-san in Idogaya (Yokohama) where two persons' full, luxurious meat dinner, including corkage, ended up at under $100.