Barbie, my favorite bartender at
Maialino (which I guess I need to do a review for given I go there EVERY Saturday for brunch and Sunday for dinner!)....anyhow I digress. She introduced me to the Italian dessert wine - Brachetto.
Wow - so delicious! It usually has pretty low alcohol content (maybe 5%?) and is deliciously sweet and sparkling. I highly recommend it - every girlfriend I've introduced it to swears by it. I'm on at least a bottle a week, and Barbie jokes that I am responsible for the restaurants ongoing shortage ;)
It can be found in most Italian wine stores - I am lucky enough to walk across the street to
Eataly's wine shop where they typically carry 1-3 different brands.
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| Pineto Brachetto - $19-$22 |
Yay! Finally a good wine shop has opened in my neighborhood. Located on Broadway between 21st and 22nd, Flatiron Wine & Spirits carries over 1500 different hand selected artisanal wines - they specialize in small wineries.
They often have free wine tastings on the weekends and during happy hour :) and source a wide selection of wines - all price points and regions!
I just picked up a wonderful $12 bottle of riesling for dinner...
So I went to
Eataly last week just to browse their little knick knacks after my old trusty wine opener got stuck in a cork last week. Looking for something fun and interesting, I came across the most amazing looking wine opener ever!
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| Alessi Anna G. Corkscrew - $63.00 |
Unfortunately it was priced at a hefty $63 bucks! Who can spend $63 bucks on a wine opener? I was definitely tempted, but decided to have some restraint and go home and search for other interesting wine openers.
And low and behold - I found this one!
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| Boston Warehouse Bluebird Corkscrew - $14.95 (sometimes cheaper on Amazon) |
I ordered it and with the wonders of Amazon Prime it showed up on my doorstep 2 days later! And it's just perfect.
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