What “Mamma” used to make!
If Connolly’s made a TV advert for “The Italian Assortment”, what wouldn’t it be like?
Hollywood stars? Sure!
And the perfect director? Let’s go for Francis Ford Coppola.
(He additionally occurs to personal a well-known winery in California. Are you getting the theme?)
What movie fashion? Motion? With “Mini” automobile chases? Romantic? Musical? Italian meals & drink?
I believe I’ve the reply to the dilemma… let’s incorporate high movie stars with our favorite “Italian” cooks and plenty of scrumptious meals & drink, all set on location, in stunning, rolling Tuscan countryside. Who wants an excuse to do this? Why would not you? The price? It does not matter!
What concerning the actors? Sly Stallone & De Niro are each busy working with one other meals firm, so how about DiCaprio? Co-starring actresses? I might point out present stars reminiscent of Monica Bellucci and Alyssa Milano. Let’s get them each concerned!
The TV cooks? Strive Gino, Giada and Nigella (not likely Italian, however “Nigellissima” is shut sufficient).
Jamie, sadly, wasn’t out there this time, however would possibly become involved within the follow-up marketing campaign.
Image the scene…
What might be higher than strolling within the sunshine by means of a village surrounded by vineyards, notably if it is someplace in Italy, and also you’re wanting ahead to a bottle of wine to go along with a home-cooked meal that solely your “Mamma” might make?
The place might you probably flip for assist in selecting the right components that may match that particular bottle? Properly, this can be a “Hollywood” advert, so the reply is straightforward and by no means fairly what you count on.
You are all sorted for the essential necessities; onions, garlic, tomatoes, herbs. You could start!
So, again to the advert…
Leo asks Monica for instructions to the native deli the place, clearly, the right wine/meals choice is out there. She gives to take him there and so they’re seen coming into the doorway of the quaint, previous store.
(Notice to director: close-up on the lovable pet ready exterior).
Inside, as if by magic, the shopkeeper (Gino) seems.
Suggesting a bottle of Terredora’s “Loggia della Serra” Greco di Tufo white as a really perfect accompaniment to his favorite ‘antipasti’ recipe of smoked mackerel with an orange and fennel salad, Leo takes his suggestion and buys the wine together with all the mandatory components. Who would have thought that Gino’s recipe was the identical one which Leo’s “Mamma” would make?
Campania, near Naples (which is nowhere close to Tuscany!), produces wines that, previously, hardly ever left the world. “Greco” is a type of wines now reaching success exterior of its homeland and is a posh mixture of flowers/minerals/citrus/pear/apple & honey on the nostril with a dry, savoury palate combining peach/almond/mandarin orange and ginger notes, which pairs superbly with Gino’s antipasti.
On leaving the store, Leo bumps into “previous pal”, Alyssa (that is “Hollywood”; it occurs), who mentions an incredible new restaurant close by that specialises in Tuscan delicacies and wines. It simply occurs to be run by Nigella.
Arriving on the restaurant in Alyssa’s Ferrari, Leo gives to assist put together Nigella’s Florentine steak & Tuscan garlic-herb fries… simply droop perception… it is a work of fiction!
With the meal now served, an appropriate wine, naturally, is required to go along with it, and the advice is for the Castello Fonterutoli Chianti Classico Gran Selezione
Not shocking, that is each Leo and Alyssa’s favorite Tuscan pink. Who would have guessed?
The realm surrounding ‘Castellina in Chianti’ (close to Sienna) is dwelling to the Mazzei household, who had been one of many first to undertake the ‘Gran Selezione’ class for his or her finest Chianti Classico wine.
The ‘Castello Fonterutoli’ is generally Sangiovese and manages to attain the virtually inconceivable feat of balancing class and energy all on the similar time
A wealthy, structured palate with notes of untamed cherries, blackberries, dried flowers, liquorice spice, leather-based, grilled almonds and espresso espresso, all wrapped up in silky, French oak.
It is an actual “wow” wine that you simply will not wish to miss. Even when it is solely inexpensive to Leo & associates!
For the ultimate scene in our advert, Leo decides to complete the night on the native bar the place (you will by no means consider it) the entire Hollywood solid simply occur to be at a celebration celebrating the “Director’s Reduce” of Mr Coppola’s newest movie. Food and drinks is free for everybody that evening so, after a number of Peroni and a few Prosecco, it is solely truthful that Giada will get to showcase one among her well-known Italian-style desserts. The party-goers go for the Pineapple Semifreddo which is loaded with fruit, double cream and amaretti biscuits that cry out for a relaxing glass of Palazzina Moscato Passito.
Piedmont is not well-known for its candy, dessert wines.
Consider Barolo & Barbaresco for reds, alongside Gavi for white; all of that are classics, adored by lovers of Italian wines all over the world. However in the event you’ve bought a candy tooth… and you do not thoughts admitting it, the Palazzina is for you.
Honeyed, intense flavours of apricot and a buttery/toffee be aware that works with the amaretti biscuits.
Typical Moscato grapiness on the nostril with floral, orange blossom.
The advert ends with a point out of “The Italian Assortment” 3 & 6 bottle offers operating on all (over £10/bottle) Italian wines at Connolly’s all through June/July/August.
Do you assume we should always make the advert?
In any case, if Warburton’s might get Sly Stallone and Robert De Niro, why not?
Bread is nice, however wine is so significantly better!
