Roero - Matteo Correggia

Alright. Here we go with post one of my new theme. I got carried away, so it took me longer to get this up than I thought it would.

One of my all time favorite restaurants in Boulder is Laudisio. This restaurant is located at the south end of 29th St mall. It's a higher end Italian restaurant, but the prices are still accessible for most people, they even have a specific wine list of bottles under $35. It's a particularly special place for my husband and I. It is where we had our first date on April 9, 2008. It was an amazing first date and I don't even want to know how much he spent on that meal but I think we had more than one bottle of wine and a lot of food.

We try to go every year to commemorate our anniversary of that first date but missed it this year because I gave up wine for lent (terrible idea, but I made it all 40 days). We finally made it in July and had an amazing bottle of wine. Here are the details about it:

This is the 2008 Matteo Correggia Roero. The grapes for this wine are grown in the western part of northern Italy right up near France. Check out this map:

Wines from this region are VERY affected by the terroir of the area and most of them are listed as DOCG wines. You can see this on the label where it says its denomination, and the bottle also had a label at the top to tell us this as well. I really enjoyed this wine it was great with our pasta dishes and heavier food that we ordered that night. It was very rich, fleshy wine with a great balance of woodsy oak, smoke, vanilla, and not too much tannin.

Name: Roero
Vineyard/Winery: Matteo Correggia
Grape: Nebbiolo
Vintage: 2008
Dominant notes: cherry, woody oak, chocolate
Would drink it again: Yes
Cost: $42 (at restaurant)