The 2010 Italian wine vintage got off to a rainy start, at least around our parts in northern Italy, such that this year’s nebbiolo was looking awfully green and acidic there for a while.The rain has been such that my father-in-law was congratulating himself on an early and booming mushroom season. When it’s good for mushrooms, it’s bad for wine, and my father-in-law is of that bizarre race of Italian prepared to risk his life for a fungus (every year in Italy someone is injured or even dies for picking excesses during mushroom season and from what I understand my father-in-law could be a prime candidate).
Luckily though, things have fined up and we have been having above-average temperatures for this time, which at this stage bodes for a hot 2010 Italian vintage. The weather has so far proved what my adopted Italian grandmother had predicted – a hot summer.
But it’s a long way in the alpine Italian regions from June to August and September and anything could happen between now and picking. In the meantime, it’s time to get out the white wine and rosé.
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