Italian Sideways 2006 – Day 9
Loris Scagliarini - April 12, 2006

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Tuesday, April 11
Vinitaly is over, but the show must go on.

After breakfast, going to the bank and picking up our tickets to Sardinia, we visit the town's bi-weekly open market, held every Tuesday and Friday, and stop every so often to chat and catch up with friends and acquaintances whom we meet under the porticos lining the main street and haven't seen in years.

With my mom, brother and sister-in-law, we have lunch at my sister Luisa and brother-in-law Dante's house, for a little family catch-up. In a typical Italian way, my family and close friends are complaining that we don't see enough of each other when we visit. In fact this is the first time that I have seen my brother and sister since our arrival over a week ago.

In the afternoon we return the rented van and are picked up by Dante and Paolo Tazzioli, who represent some quality producers of wine and specialty foods.

  Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro Amabile Barbolini
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We visit first the Barbolini winery in Casinalbo, at the foothill of the Modenese Apennines, to taste their line of wines, and select 'Terre di Pio', a Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro DOC; 'Il Maglio', a Lambrusco di Modena IGT, made with Lambrusco Graspa Rossa, Lambrusco di Sorbara and a small quatity of Malbo grapes; the Lambrusco Grasparossa di Castelvetro DOC Biologico (or from organic farming); and the Lambrusco Amabile DOC, the semisweet Lambrusco drunk locally as dessert wine and a favorite to dip into bensone, or a local, sliced dry dessert similar to biscotti.

We then drive to Cavazzona, a frazione (small town) in the municipality of Castelfranco, to visit the Caseificio Pelloni (Pelloni's family cheese factory), a full-circle Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese producing estate which owns the cattle, the fields which produce their feed, the processing plant, as well as the marketing and distribution sector.

We wrap up the day with a pizza at 'La Roda' ('The Wheel' in local dialect), with our good friends Gastone, Rita, and their daughter Valentina at whose beautifully frescoed apartment we are staying.

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