A sip n’ paint class about rocks and what they taste like, held at Pan Pan Vino Vino, a bakery by day / wine bar by night in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Wednesday, May 15.
what we drank
Eduardo Torres Acosta, kitchen sink, “Versante Nord” ETNA
(NOTE: this was the first wine for the 7:30PM seating)
Half minnella, half a mix of every other Sicilian white grape you’ve ever heard of and a few you haven’t: carricante, catarratto, grecanico, inzolia … Grown on the north face (“versante nord”) of the active volcano, in scattered old bushvine parcels rooted in volcanic ash.
Sous Le Végétal, muscat, “Livia” SAMOS
(NOTE: this was the second wine for the 7:30PM seating)
From a single plot of muscat of Alexandria (here called muscat of Samos, one of its many, many names) that used to go to the local co-op. Rooted in metamorphic schist on the volcanic island of Samos, just a mile off the Turkish coast.
Borja Pérez González, kitchen sink, “Artífice – Vidueños” TENERIFE
A blend of old, own-rooted vines — albillo, gual, marmejuelo, and listan blanco aka palomino — from a variety of parcels in the fractured volcanic landscape of Ycoden-Daute-Isora, in Tenerife’s northwest. Some grow as high as 4,500 ft in elevation.
Envínate, listan prieto, “Benje” TENERIFE
Listan prieto aka pais from several parcels around the village of Santiago del Teide, in the fractured volcanic landscape of Ycoden-Daute-Isora, in Tenerife’s northwest. Old, untrained, and own-rooted, from a variety that was brought here from its birthplace in the Gredos mountains west of Madrid, and from here was seeded throughout the west coast of the Americas.
Benoit Courault, grolleau/pineau d’aunis “Versante Nord” LAYON
Grolleau and pineau d’aunis, two oddball reds of the Loire (grolleau is like evil Beaujolais, whereas pineau d’aunis is thin-skinned, ethereal, but does this crazy white pepper mizuna talc powder crushed baby aspirin vegetal thing). In the Layon, a trickling little tributary that runs through Anjou, south of Angers, in the heart of the Loire Valley. Soils are blue-black volcanic schist. Read more about the Loire here.
Children's Atlas of Wine 