The Pleasure of the Holidays, IP an ally for the right temperatures
Celebrate at the right temperatures! There are different ways to toast, from the classic cin cin used when we raise our glasses, to the santé in French, up to the Japanese expression kanpai.
The watchword for a special evening like New Year’s Eve is bubbles.
What to drink on New Year's Eve? What etiquette to toast with?
There are so many ideas on how to celebrate New Year’s Eve: with family or friends, in the square or in the mountains. But which wine should you toast with? For the New Year’s Eve celebrations, we at IP turned to our client Grotta Divino and asked sommelier Stefano for some advice on which label to choose to start the new year in the best possible way.
The wine shop is located in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence, where you can find and taste the best labels; but not only that. In addition to buying your favorite bottles, you can taste them directly on site accompanied by seafood or mountain appetizers.
“We offer our customers different types of bubbles for the occasion. We recommend starting with a light aperitif and for the toast we recommend a Trento doc millesimato made only with Chardonnay grapes from the Altemasi winery. Fresh and intense bouquet, with a broad fruity note of ripe golden apple, white flowers and a delicate yeast fragrance, given by over two years of aging in the bottle. From the same winery you can opt for their rosé, an elegant bubble with aging on the yeasts from 18 to 24 months”
And if we wanted to toast with a Franciacorta?
“Cabochon is the most prestigious Franciacorta from the Monte Rossa winery. Born from the research of a new winemaking system that introduces the barriques for the first fermentation of the must. Its aging goes beyond 36 months”
Toasting with Classic Method
“As a classic method I would recommend a 2017 vintage cuvée composed of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from the Marcalberto farm in S. Stefano Belbo, in Altalunga in Piedmont”. The winery has been producing only with the classic method for two generations”
And for the ladies?
“For the more demanding ladies instead we recommend Camely’ from Tenuta Montecchiesi in Cortona, a classic method rosé sparkling wine made from 100% Syrah grapes. An explosion of fruit and colors. The aging on the lees for about thirty months gives complexity and marries perfectly with a decisive and refreshing perlage”
IP an ally for the holidays
Inside the wine shop, you will find our 501 wine cellars for 138 bottles where different types of wine are displayed, and the 601 wine cellar also dedicated to cured meats and cheeses for tasting and sampling wines.
IP wine cellars are designed and built with solid and long-lasting materials, you can choose a built-in or free-standing product with different covering options.
At IP we work in continuous research to create a product like our wine cellars that are able to maintain the characteristics of high-quality products.
The cellars are characterized by LED lighting that guarantees very high quality standards and lower management costs, in addition to having glass that protects the interior from harmful UV rays, a very important aspect for better conservation of the labels.
All that remains for us to do is wish you all the best! We thank the Grotta Divino wine shop for the precious advice to toast in the best way on the most magical night of the year.
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