Mining the Wine List

Our favorite neighborhood place here in Chicago is Sabatino’s. It is an old school Italian Restaurant with great food, great service and reasonable prices.

You know what our problem is? We have been in a rut. We always order the same wines.

Yes, all these great Italian, French and American wine choices on their list, we stick with Santa Margarita Pinot Grigio and Pio Cesare Amarone way too many times…

And that is a damn shame.

So last night as we at dinner with our 12 year old, trying to impress her with the need to look at highschools with more than her social life on her agenda, we changed around the wine that we drank….

The Ceretto Arneis Blange 2005… It was light and crisp with the taste of pears and apples and had a pleasant effervescence. The majority of the wines that I have drank from the Piedmont region were Barberas… which I like. It turns out that I was missing out… I will be looking for more Arneis wines…

The other new wine we tried was the Pio Cesare L’Altro Chardonnay… It was fuller bodied than the earlier wine with a light oak taste… it was perfect with our entrees… the fantastic veal chop and the dover sole…

Perfect!

Aren’t we glad to be out of the rut? Yes, we are!

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