Comments on: Novello olive oil and Vin Santo from Capezzana http://www.drvino.com/2008/12/03/novello-olive-oil-and-vin-santo-from-capezzana/ wine talk that goes down easy Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Dylan http://www.drvino.com/2008/12/03/novello-olive-oil-and-vin-santo-from-capezzana/#comment-170415 Dylan Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:15:30 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=2772#comment-170415 That's really neat. I've grown up with olive oil as a staple in my life. My mother even had me try it straight from a spoon every now and then when I was younger. However, I've never had it pressed as fresh as the one in your photo, to the point where it's still green. Really great! That’s really neat. I’ve grown up with olive oil as a staple in my life. My mother even had me try it straight from a spoon every now and then when I was younger. However, I’ve never had it pressed as fresh as the one in your photo, to the point where it’s still green. Really great!

]]> By: Dr. Vino http://www.drvino.com/2008/12/03/novello-olive-oil-and-vin-santo-from-capezzana/#comment-170196 Dr. Vino Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:23:37 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=2772#comment-170196 Hey Joe- Glad you like the wines. Yes, the nuovo/novello 2008 (!) olive oil is really great. I just looked around and apparently the market thinks it is about $38 for 500 ml great. I seem to remember the quoted price being less, but it is really good. markethallfoods.com is one vendor online; Whole Foods, Eli's and Dean & Deluca stock it in the City. Sam -- Sounds like fun! It's interesting with vintages and tastings that olive oil is certainly moving in on wine turf--and with the pricing too! Hey Joe-
Glad you like the wines. Yes, the nuovo/novello 2008 (!) olive oil is really great. I just looked around and apparently the market thinks it is about $38 for 500 ml great. I seem to remember the quoted price being less, but it is really good.
markethallfoods.com is one vendor online; Whole Foods, Eli’s and Dean & Deluca stock it in the City.

Sam — Sounds like fun! It’s interesting with vintages and tastings that olive oil is certainly moving in on wine turf–and with the pricing too!

]]> By: Sam http://www.drvino.com/2008/12/03/novello-olive-oil-and-vin-santo-from-capezzana/#comment-170167 Sam Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:19:49 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=2772#comment-170167 On a visit to Napa last spring my girlfriend and I visited Round Pond, an olive oil/ wine producer. I never got to tasting the wines. The two of us took an olive oil tasting seminar with a great professorial gentleman whom within five minutes was discussing Waldorf Style education, his bee hives, and the history of Roman Olive Oil. It was one of the highlights of the trip. We tasted four oils out of offical tasting cups - a translucent blue cup of about five ounces with no stem. Tasting olive oil is just like exagerated wine tasting, except as you vigorously airate the wine the number of coughs you respond with tells of the strengh of the oil. (3 is extra virgin of the finest quality.) It was an eye opening experience, one I reccomend to all. On a visit to Napa last spring my girlfriend and I visited Round Pond, an olive oil/ wine producer. I never got to tasting the wines. The two of us took an olive oil tasting seminar with a great professorial gentleman whom within five minutes was discussing Waldorf Style education, his bee hives, and the history of Roman Olive Oil. It was one of the highlights of the trip. We tasted four oils out of offical tasting cups – a translucent blue cup of about five ounces with no stem. Tasting olive oil is just like exagerated wine tasting, except as you vigorously airate the wine the number of coughs you respond with tells of the strengh of the oil. (3 is extra virgin of the finest quality.) It was an eye opening experience, one I reccomend to all.

]]> By: Joe http://www.drvino.com/2008/12/03/novello-olive-oil-and-vin-santo-from-capezzana/#comment-170088 Joe Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:46:43 +0000 http://www.drvino.com/?p=2772#comment-170088 I love the wines of Capezzana, especially the Villa di Capezzana, which seems to me like a Chianti of yesteryear. Never had the Vin Santo, but it is your comments on their olive oil that really have me interested - you conveniently left out the estimated retail price for those oils... I love the wines of Capezzana, especially the Villa di Capezzana, which seems to me like a Chianti of yesteryear. Never had the Vin Santo, but it is your comments on their olive oil that really have me interested – you conveniently left out the estimated retail price for those oils…

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