I used the glass last night , Sunday December 1st, 2013 trying the DEGANI Valpolicella 2011 " Classico ", $14.99 ... and the " Pian Di Nova " 2010 75% Syrah and 25% Sangiovese from IL BORRO, Arezzo, Tuscany with our late Thanksgiving celebration with my family just returned from Italy, Tuscany where they saw Alessandro Furlan ( that brings us the DEGANI wines through the Michael Downey Selections - we used to sell thousands of Alessandro's family wines : FRANCO FURLAN from Friuli, we still have the Cabernet Franc and a PRA DI PRADIS red blend Alessandro that I now sell as the wine manager of Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits at 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C., 20008 , 202-363-4265, anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com ).
I enjoyed using this glass : it brought back many memories for me. As I told my wife we still have a bottle of the 1981 FRANCO FURLAN Picolit to try and enjoy!
Sitting on our Italian table runner from Tuscany, bought in Siena by my daughter and me as a gift in 2009 that has live branch and black olive motif, we also have the two FIOR DI MAGGIO pitchers - one cream-colored with blue scroll flourishes and tan-orange leaves-trees for an embellishment: nice ... and the other a dark night sky blue color with rain or snow-drop-white motif that we brought over from Italy in the Mayflower containers and sold to our customers. I gave them out as gifts and have these two still. Nice. Cheers, Happy Holidays everyone 2013! Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn 12/2/13
I copied what's below from our Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits' Facebook page that I posted last night, Sunday night , there. Cheers and enjoy! TONY
Looking at a clean old-fashioned wine glass from Tuscany, Italy made to enjoy Chianti wines. It dates back to the old Mayflower Wines & Spirits' days of the eighties when I started off with a four-pack of them and am now down to just one! It's on the table runner that my daughter and I bought in Sienna, Italy back in late October 2009 with an olives and olive branches motif. Look great and I think I will enjoy using it later tonight for old time's sake. It has the Gallo Nero - Black Rooster symbol on it that is still a distinction to have on your Chianti bottles. It says : Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico. I wonder how we got them : what vineyard sent them to us? VOLPAIA, FONTERUTOLI, FOSSI? I do not remember - it's been awhile. Happy Sunday everyone : it's so nice now, have got logs and branches and twigs in our fire pit outside for a fire in a bit. Cheers, TONY 12/1/13
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