Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy braised pork shoulder

braised pork shoulder

Zah is Chinese for “to burst” or “to explode” and his goal is to make wines that burst with flavor from the first sip

Sean Thackeray is a legendary winemaker who rejects the concept of terroir

from the Bay Area

The wine was aged in 15% new French oak

Alberico -- 2016 ‘Appia Antica 400’ Lazio Rosso -- Lazio, Italy braised pork shoulderThis wine has a story like a combination of a soap opera and an episode of This American Life. Alberico Boncompagni Ludovisi, the Prince of Venosa, decided in the late 40s, at the urging of the most prominent Italian enologist of his day, Dr. Tancredi Biondi Santi, to plant Bordeaux varietals on his estate on the Appian Way just outside Rome (the address, Appia Antica 400, is the namesake of this wine) long before that had become fashionable in Italy.