Well known Melbourne restaurateur Caterina Borsato from Caterina’s Cucina e Bar explores the Puglia region and the Varvaglione family vineyard in this segment from her Channel 31 cooking series (aired on 26 November 2016).
We’re going to meet the MA is marking manager fabricación who works with the Bible unit family and once again he is another wonderful job just like mother said traveling the world yes yes we traveled the world together and he’s the responsible for some markets and me for
The other one yeah of course behind every man sends a great woman hmm a little fob you know the second dish I revisit Carter was a totally different style it certainly as I said nothing that the known he would eat and of course that cause very different one
Doesn’t it it is it is completely different one and he surprised me as well I mean I live years 37 years old by surprise me very delicate the recipe yes so we have basically different textures so the softness of the crunch of the vegetables the softest of the muscle and
Then the beautiful rice cream over the top so what sort of one would you combine with this I mean for this world recipes that definitely goes to something very delicate I don’t want to make something full body so for this one I choose a white wine instead and these
Our 12 and mezzo is organic white wine it is a blend of three different varieties on this one we have is organic yes and we have a 40% Malvasia they give you the room Atticus sense all right we have the Chardonnay they give the structure and at the end we
Have a 30 percent of a Fionna there is very elegant so was the selection of three varieties each one with a definite define identity alright and so there are all grapes that are actually grown in this region yes absolutely yes something yeah we have also internet we can we grow we have
Also Chardonnay all right and tell me what are the I guess nuts fruit nuts what do we look for in a Wan like this the multi wasn’t a characteristic yeah the Malvasia as I said I give it the kind of aromatic style is a very fresh aromatic and reminiscence of a pineapple
Or exotic fruit as much perfectly a recipe like that were very delicate and the number 12 and mezzo means a 12 and a half is exactly the alcohol content of our wine so very light easy drink here you chill yeah Buddha’s bucket in a very sunny day
For the first one that I strongly recommend the red wine at very complex they can definitely match perfectly the thimble or is about at the cost and the wine I’m mentioned is the pop allele in Euro is a primitive of the Mandarin DOP qualities what does mandora mean into
The region no Mandarin is a very small town here about the 40 kilometers from an operon oh and it was pain became famous because all the area around it that took the DOP quality that means a high quality standard and dotd nominee origin a protein exactly to change the
Name instead of do see in the past was denomination original control the control became proto protected alright so there you go alright and pop Ali what is this man the purple is one our flagship I would say it came from a Papa that means a pope oh yeah a pope because
We have one pop in the history from gravina de Puglia it was a pier francesco cine oh really yes it is and he became papa Benedetto 13th in the 17th century so after he had the land close to midoriya we have some vineyards in that area so we used this grade to
Make this beautiful line with old vines almost a 65 years old and it is completely hand pick right so that becomes really quite a special thing and so what are the primary flavors that you can expect community committee we give you plums cherry no to blackberry chocolate vanilla tobacco taste because
We use also American and French okay the American one is because there is a link between Zinfandel as you said and Promethean California exactly that’s why we wanted to have also a touch of American style ah a little bit faster Johnny right though this is the important thing as you can
See the color is very dark indeed it’s like a ruby color and they spend almost one year in oak before to be police oh it’s got tips it is Wow you know what just standing here with it with the ocean in the background I mean really this thing’s this like doesn’t it
Oh absolutely because he’s very rich full of flavor it’s God oh and an elegant dinner is a very efficient but great asset it is holding very well balanced rounded mmm this I love for our viewers at home of course you can liken this to somewhere between what the richness of a Cabernet
But maybe the more linear structure of a Shiraz no it’s hard to explain but anyway this is amazing well Puglia is a silly it is an amazing space it’s a very large growing economy of course now in Puglia yeah we are developing our business especially in food and beverage
And how to grow our raw material yeah and of course because of all the amazing coastline it’s a they have many ports so very important like as for tourism and industry in general yes yes also for the tourism as I said because we are very close to the Greece so on the other
Coast on yet really curves we have some nari that brings the people from Brindisi to the Greece oh really yeah and tell them the other thing that I just think that is totally synonymous with pulley of course are the cooling right oh my god yeah still stone dwellings yes yeah exactly there are
This kind of buildings made by stones took up the land because when family like works in the de Lyonne they took out this kind of very big stone and they build is truly that are buildings with cut shape with like conical listen to me yeah my bad they’re amazing you can find
Them all in Puglia and valid III oh yeah very very special on that night of course I would love to thank Indiana of course he was the principal of 12 bottles because he led me to visits of course about by unit and of course in turn university today and I want to say
Thank you cause to Cosmo Maria Teresa they looked after us amazingly Fabio all the beautiful people of course Salvatori he’d gable says dishes of course just showing really what put it was capable of and I would like to thank you and I hope we can come
Back and see you soon baby soon alla prossima ciao