 Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to Exotic Wine Travel. I am your host Matthew Horky. Well, I have to apologize if it's a little bit echoey in here. I'm here at my apartment in Budapest and we're going to taste some Italian wines from a cool club that contacted us. Before we get started, I also have to apologize for my crazy hair. It's hot public holiday weekend here in Budapest. No place is open. I gotta find a place to cut my hair. I hate getting my hair cut in a new country for the first time, but whatever, I have to deal with it. So let's get into it. I have a set of wines from the wine club in a wine shop called Rossoli and I'll put that up on the screen. It's so funny because we get contacted a lot by wine clubs wanting us to taste some of the wines that they promote. You know, they taste it through some of the wines. Sometimes they're terrible. A lot of times I have to say no when I look up the company, but Rossoli, when they approached us, I took a look at their portfolio, what they were actually giving the customers and I was very intrigued. So I said, yes, we'll give it a try. I've got two videos coming up on their wines, one on the first tier. Right now, we're going to taste the one on like a second more premium tier. They also have a third really collector type tier. So what turned me on to them? First of all, if you want to show you know that I love Italian wines. Just in this last year, I think I've been to Italy about eight times. I'm hoping I'm going a lot more in the next year. But Rossoli, what really drew me into them is they source wines from small producers, a lot of times organic or biodynamic and some really interesting quirky wines from different grapes, which we all have right here. And a cool thing that I saw, they carried some producers I knew. So let's get started. If I do like these wines, I'll decide and we decided to be an affiliate with them. I'll have a discount code. I'll put it up on the screen. You can get a discount, I think a 10% discount on your first box. Let's get started. First, I have a wine that I'm so excited to drink. This taste, this is the Malibran. Credimore. It's a Prosecco. But here's the cool thing. Val, it's a Val d'Obidene, D.O.C.G., which means Prosecco superior. It's kind of like a crew area. And this is not a tank method. What they usually do with Prosecco is they do the second fermentation in the tank to get a steel tank to get bubbles and then they bottle it. What happens is the second fermentation happens here inside the bottle. They don't discourage it. So I popped open the cork. I was afraid that it would shoot all over the place but it didn't. The sediment is still in there. So they recommend standing it up. I've had this stood up for three days. I don't have it to canter. But oh well here. So this is from the grape glera. And this is labeled as a frizzante. So a semi-sparkling wine. Not full-on sparkling. So let's give this a go here. First of all, I see even the sediment must be down here. Clear, clear wine. You're not going to get some of those crazy wines like some petnats or stuff like that. Already it's super explosive. Made from the grape glera. Nice clean nose. You know sometimes these wines can be a little bit funky especially the leaves are still in them. Got a lot of lemon zest, lemon peel, white apple, white pear type of flavors. And don't scoff on proseccos. There are some high-quality proseccos out there. And with some of these high-quality proseccos, I also get this flinty kind of soapy nose. Very intriguing. Let me get it. Let's give this a go. First of all, bubbles are not super early aggressive. It is a frizzante. Not so. I don't think a lot of people would tell that this is made in a different type of way. A light summer sparkler. Very crisp. Nice bubbles. Very, very interesting wines. For me, I have to give Roscioli thumbs up for getting this small producer who's actually in this vignoli independente. This is kind of a group of small producers which we follow quite a bit. I did some videos on them recently. I like this prosecco. I don't love it but I think it's very good. I give them a lot of street cred for packing, for shipping out such a unique wine. I think that it's a talking point. It's going to get a lot of people talking for me. I'm about eighty-eight, eighty-nine out of ninety. I think it's out of a hundred. I think it's very, very good wine. It's not the most profound prosecco in the world. But you know what? Super interesting, great story to tell and nice wine. So thumbs up to Roscioli for the first one. The next one that they gave us that we're not going to taste today is the Marabino Rosso di Contrada 2016. This is a, I think a bio, I know they're eco-certified but I think they're bio-dynamic as well. I really like this producer from Sicily. This is from the Nero da Avila grape. I've had their Marabino Archimede Reserva before which is a fantastic wine. I'm looking forward to tasting this thirteen-five alcohol. Pretty low for a Sicilian red. We'll have to get to that. So the wine that we are going to taste today is one that I'm super excited to taste. Excuse me a little bit, a little bit flummy today. The weather's turning a little bit colder here in Budapest. This is the Monti di Grazia Rosso IGT from Campania. This is 2013. This is also an organic producer. I've seen videos of these vines. They're so huge. They say that the vines are over a hundred years old. Interesting note, this is a David Boulder wine, famous and big importer in New York with the portfolio I like very much. This is from the grape Tintori di Tramante. It's a grape that's called a Tintori. It means it has red skin and red flesh. This has some age on it. I'm really interested to try this. This is actually, this Tramante is actually near the Amalfi Coast. So if you're holidaying up down there in Amalfi, you can give these guys a go, I think. I mean, if they accept visitors. I think they're a pretty small producer. First off, really nice color. Got a little bit of browning on the rim so I can tell it has some age. I'm a little bit scared. Some of these Southern Italian wines can be very plummy, but you know what? Let's give this a go here. Very attractive, actually very attractive nose. I don't get black plum or prune, more like red plum. Dried black cherries, a little bit of violet. You can definitely tell this is a Mediterranean wine, but the alcohol is only 12%. So it's, you can feel the warmth of the sun. A little bit of mushroom tobacco from violet just really smells like the kind of Italian wine that I'm going to drink. Let's give this a go. Very pretty. For a Southern Italian wine, it can be sometimes too ripe, rustic, big. This is very nice. Flour on the palate, super silky, ripe, round tannins, kind of medium to foolish. More towards the full body, but not massive. Rose petal. Almost like a black tea cup. This is very good. This is a kind of wine. I just want to make Italy so excited. This is 90% Tintore di Tremonti and 10% Piero Rosso. Piero Rosso they use for the Lacroma Christi wines down there. This is very good. The type of wine that you want to seek out if you want to, if you want to check out, you know, unusual Italian grape varieties. I am pretty darn high on this. Let me give this a go. Wow. A little bit of spice pepper. This wine is uber complex. I'm 90 plus on this. And this is the entry level pack of wines. So I got to say really, I mean, you get six wines. They divided up for me three bottles of the tier one and three bottles of the tier two for tier one wines are going to be very good. I know this is going to be good because it's a very good producer. Prosecco is more interest, more interesting than fine, but still very good. And this is outstanding. So nice job by Roscioli. Roscioli, I'm sorry my time is good. I'm going to put a disc. I guess we will, from what I tasted here, we probably will go out. We will be a small affiliate. I'll put a discount code up on the screen. We get a small percentage if you choose to buy the ship all through Europe and the USA. Very good on the Montaigrazia. This is I think this is fantastic wine. Guys, check out Roscioli if you want. If you like this video, put in your comments below. If you tried any of these wines, what you think, what you think about wine clubs in general. I think it's kind of a cool concept if you find the right club because I do like getting a package of wines and not knowing what's inside. It's almost like you're a kid at Christmas. You open something up and you see what's going on. So check it out. 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