Sapore 2010: Italian Sideways - Part 18
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Day 18, Wednesday, March 3
We get up fairly early and, after breakfast, check out and make our way to the small town of Senorbì, where we have a noon appointment with Agostino Pisano, director of the Cantina Trexenta, which produces excellent Vermentino, Cannonau and Monica di Sardegna wines, among others.
From Pula to Senorbì, to the Cagliari airport.
Pisano is a very kind and knowledgeable host and, after an introductory chat we sit down for a formal tasting of several wines, including the whites Tenute san Mauro Nuragus di Cagliari DOC, Donna Leonora Vermentino di Sardegna DOC, and the Bingias Vermentino di Sardegna DOC, followed by four reds. The Duca di Mandas Monica di Sardegna DOC, Corte Auda Cannonau di Sardegna DOC, Baione Cannonau di Sardegna DOC, and the well structured Antigu Isola dei NUraghi IGT, an excellent blend of Cannonau and Carignano grapes aged for 18 months in French barriques and refined for six more months in the bottle before hitting the market.
As we have to take off from the Elmas airport in Cagliari at 5:40, and we need to return the gassed up rental car before hand, we take off mid afternoon, but not before Pisano presents us with with a bottle of the excellent Simieri Moscato di Cagliari DOC dessert wine, which we plan to bring back with us all the way to California.
At the airport we find out that Meridiana, the airline on which we are due to fly back to Bologna via Olbia has a two-hour delay due to unexpected strikes, so we sit down at one of the bar where Brigit reads and I try to get some work done. Luckily, as there are no monitors announcing the flights visible from where we sit, I catch an announcement which seem to announce that the flight to Olbia/Bologna is boarding right now. I run down one floor and find out that they are actually boarding on time, so I run back, gather our stuff and we rush back in time to board the plane.
As I had already called our friend Ivano, who is picking us up at the Bologna airport that we would have been late two hours or longer, I call him back and let him know that we are actually leaving Cagliari on time. Apart from the discomfort due to Brigit's closed ear and my sore throat, the two flights back to the mainland are comfortable enough, though we land in Bologna under a heavy, cold rain which is not helping our lingering colds. Ivano, tipped of by my raspy voice on the phone, has brought me a concoction of his own making based on Rum, telling us to gargle with it before swallowing it. Brigit and I comply right away, as we figured that it couldn't hurt and it might help.
Back in Castelfranco Emilia, we hug Ivano goodbye and head over to the Pizzeria Medioevo for a pizza, just the two of us, as Ivano has already eaten. The restaurant is just across the street from the frescoed apartment which is our base. Afterward we are ripe for a good night's sleep, though the cold does not help us any.
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