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What wine to serve with a very spicy cheese?
Red wines. I would suggest you a couple of Italian wines reflecting the different character of the lands they come from.
The first one, is a DOC wine form Calabria: Pollino. The Pollino wine’s production area is a plateau, the Pollino Massif, along the border between the Calabria and Basilicata regions, in the deep south of Italy.
It is a ruby red coloured wine, dry, with a very characteristic aroma and rich body, 12 %, usually served at 18 °/20 ° C temperature. It is perfect to accompany typical Calabrian food, often including a lot of chilli among their ingredients.
From Calabria to Piedmont, from deep south to deep north, from a Mediterranean tradition to the Padanian one, now we introduce the second one: Barbera d’Asti.
Barbera d’Asti, is a DOC wine mostly produced in the surroundings of Asti, in the north to the banks of the Pò river, in Piedmont.
It is a intense ruby red coloured wine, dry, 12 % alcohol, with the characteristic aroma of Barbera and a slightly bitter taste. Usually aged up to three years, Barbera d’Asti is served at 20 ° C temperature, accompanies typical local cheeses and pork meat dishes.
