February

Fans of The Da Vinci Code will be pleased with this wine. “Il Templare” is named after the Knights Templar who used this area was used as a way station in the Middle Ages. It's been speculated that these brave men could have imbibed a wine very similar to this one, since the grapes grown here now date back to that time. There was an order by one of the leaders of the time that directed his knights to “drink wine according to necessity in order to defeat the cold." Each had the right to determine how much wine to drink each day to counter cold: coldness of body, coldness of heart, coldness of spirit. This wine is a blend of Vernaccia, Trebbiano, Malvasia Bianca, Semillon, Verdicchio, and Grechetto. Basically, a blend from all the white grapes in the old vineyards. It's rich, complex, full of citrus elements with nice acidity and integrated wood; an extremely balanced wine that you can drink alone or pair easily with salads or fish. So try a wine that the Knights Templar may have drank long ago or just try an incredibly balanced, rich wine.