Winemaker Andrea Fossi Comes To Cleveland Park Wine And Spirits To Taste Cureent Vintages Of His Superb Italian Reds : Primitivo From Puglia, Italy And Vino Nobile From Tuscany : Join Us, Never Any Charge, Friday, November 21st, 2014 From 5 to 8 PM.

These are some of the wines I sold and enjoyed drinking, too while working at the Mayflower Wine And Spirits. I got to know both Andrea Fossi and Alessandro Furlan. This is the 1959 Chianti Classico from Andrea and his father, the Reserva , 12.7 alcohol by volume.  he dry white AI di CASTELCOSA bt Franco Furlan / Alessandro's father / , too ... and I have my own home-made vinegar in them now. Andre Fossi will be in the store, Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits tasting his wines on Friday, November 21st, 2014 from 5 to 8PM  JOIN US< NEVER any charge! This will be great, trust me. We had the FOSSI Chianti Classico wines going back to the 1958, and we would regularly taste them with our customers. What a great and special treat that was. Cheers,   TONY   11/ 16 / 2014

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  Paul Jameson I remember the '58 Fossi. Found my notes. Bought at Eagle on 8/12/78 for $9.99. Opened 10/21/78. On the scoring system I was using then, I gave it 12 1/2 pts, which rated as Very Good.
  
  I had a second bottle of the '58 on 10/3/79, and my notes read, "Perhaps it has been open too long, but tastes considerably more past peak than when I had it a year ago. Still quite nice."

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  Anthony Quinn Thanks for these notes Paul! Come by and see Andrea at the store. We will have his excellent Vino Nobile open for you to try, and the 2010 magnum of Primitivo, $16.99 a bottle is sublime!

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  Anthony Quinn Glad you like this Karen, Sonia e Vinicius! Great memories. I still have the 1961 here at home to enjoy, Cannot wait for that, may enjoy it with Andrea, we will see what his schedule is on this Friday evening? TONY

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This is from this year's Michael Downey portfolio annual tasting and I asked everyone to gather around for this picture. Andre is in the center in the red shirt and we also have other winemakers/ owners pictured here, too : in Virginia in north Arlington on a nice day : what fun! WE have Mauro of his own Piemonte winery pictured, we have a fine Virginia winemaker and owner pictured above squatting down on the far right , we have a French winemaker pictured on the far left that makes fine wines by Piemonte with the Pinot Noir grape and not the Bonarda grape!

I scanned these just now, the TAI is from Friuli, Italy, I do not know the vintage of it, It does say on the neck label : Grande Intenditore, , I do not know what that means? What fun, come meet Andrea Fossi here at the store on Friday, November 21st, 2014rom 5-8PM. Cheers!