Pork Chops Scarpariello with 2006 Villa Medoro Montepulciano D’Abruzzo
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Couldn’t be happier to cook a rustic Italian meal. Let alone pair it with the nice little Italian Red that I have tonight, the 2006 Villa Medoro Montepulciano D’Abruzzo.
Getting Thirsty...
I might have mentioned this in a previous posts, but Italian wine love to confuse even the most clever wine consumers by labeling bottles of wine with either regional labels, i.e. Chianti, Barolo, and Barbaresco, or grape varietal labels, i.e. Barbera D’Alba, Moscato D’Asti, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. This last one in particular gives a crazed little confusion to even wine folks, especially with Montepulciano D’Abruzzo, which I’m drinking tonight. But an easy way to distinguish between your varietal label and your regional label is simple...just look for the “di” or “d’.” The part before any of these Italian articles will indicate the grape and the latter will indicate the region. If the label does not contain any of these articles then usually we’re talking about a town, but not always...think of wines like Pinot Grigio, they usually stand alone as solely varietal labels.
But the best way to become more familiar with the Italian labeling system, is to drink more Italian wine. Seriously.
So the wine I have tonight is a Montepulciano D’Abruzzo...the grape being Montepulciano “from” Abruzzo. The grape is considered a pretty big one. With a lot of opulent herbs, spiced plum and subtle earthen spices like cumin and nutmeg. The town is on the opposite side of the coast from Rome in the provence of Marche, with the Adriatic to the East. Typically, these dry wines can be pretty dirty, but this one in particular was one of the smoothest I’ve tasted yet. The quality of the Villa Medoro is so good in fact that it won the most prestigious award in the Italian Wine Press, Tre Bicchiere. This award is awarded to only about 1% of all Italian wines, of which about 25,000 enter. Typically these wines go for around $40 dollars or more, but the beauty of the Villa Medoro is that it’s only about $15, making it a cool little steal as far as highly lauded Italian wines come...and go.
Getting Hungry...
I chose a nicely little herb-roasted pork dish from Italy called Pork Chops Scarpariello. The recipe can be found on Epicurious.com. For the record, I have massive recipe compliance issues and chose to cook with the red wine I was drinking instead of the white wine the recipe suggested. But...
Overall, the dish was a little too hot for the wine. The tannin in the red wine increased the heat in the dish. The body of the pork paired nicely with the body of the wine. The rusticity of the bell peppers and cherry peppers with the red wine sauce matched really nicely with the dried fruit component of the wine. The heat still lingered though. And I got the sense that the dish wanted to cool the heat with a German Riesling, probably a Spatlese.
I probably should tone down the amount of cherry peppers next time....cooking with the red wine sauce instead of the white made more sense just to give the dish a richer flavor base. It lend-ed a little more rusticity to the dish and helped balance the dish against the wine. Not the best pairing. But it could be tweeked and tworked.
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