![]() ![]() Erin Jenne and Levi Littvay, and former U.S. Is that all there is to it, or can we find order in chaos? Drawing on experience gained from nearly 12 years of working in American domestic politics, CEU professors Dr. To an outside observer, the American elections system can look chaotic, unwieldy, and seems focused on style rather than substance. Would I buy it? Two glasses and an extra slice of Christmas cake, thanks.The Department of International Relations and European StudiesĬordially invite you to a panel discussion on Order from Chaos: Unpacking the 2012 American Elections You could keep it, and it may never die, but it’s ready. Of course, you’re not going to drink more than a glass, but the indulgence without feeling unbalanced is excellent. ![]() Ultimately, this is such a satisfying, indulgent drink. Coffee and caramel raisins bathed in vanilla, that’s the vibe, without being necessarily heavy. At just 14%, it doesn’t taste warm, like a tawny, either, although still very sweet. Very rich and still youthful, despite some woolly lanolin secondary characters. Style-wise it’s closer to, say, a white port than a traditional botrytis dessert style, but the decadence is unique. Otherwise, it’s a cavalcade of butterscotch, honey, salmon, lemon peel and vanilla bean, the cascading richness of the figgy dried fruit and the sweetness of oak all adding extra choruses in the mix. There is always a certain level of oxidation that comes with a long barrel-aged style like this, but it’s more a whiff than a distraction. Let alone the costs of storage etc., for a wine that is not released until it is six years old. Given that, on average, you might get 70 litres from 100kg of white grapes, it’s a fascinating comparison. Once you account for losses during bottling and transfers, you’re looking at just 30 375ml bottles from 100kg of grapes max. Volume losses during the process are significant – you get just 20 litres of must from 100kg of grapes, maybe less, and then losses during fermentation and maturation can be another 40%. The very sweet finished wine then spends a further three years in barrel before bottling.īesides the patience required to make such a drink, the pricetag isn’t arbitrary. Pizzini does this in 100-litre octaves (small barrels, prized for fortified) with ferment stretching out over two years (which is short, six years or more is not unusual). The final process is fermentation, which can take years because of the high sugar levels. Plus, you also rehydrate the berries themselves, which helps extract more flavours. So what Pizzini do is press the dried grapes and then return some of the juice back into the press. This reduces the volume of water to sugar in each berry, while the early pick ensures this still has plenty of acidity (final total acidity of 7.6g/L).įrom here, it’s off to the press, and it’s a trickier process to press when you have these dried grapes with much less liquid. ‘Treb’ is late-ripening and will hold its acidity, which is why it is the backbone of many a fresh white wine – like Soave, where it is married to Garganega (although it is Trebbiano di Soave, which is also known as Verdicchio Bianco).įor this Pizzini sweet wine, the grapes are picked early (potential alcohol of 9-10%, or circa 10 Baume) and then dried on racks for four months. Still, they all share the tendency to be seriously vigorous, delivering huge crops which are perfect for making vin santo. Technically, there are many genetically different varieties out there labelled as Trebbiano. ![]() Per Gli Angeli translates as ‘for the angels’, and uses King Valley Trebbiano, the workhorse, large-berried, white-skinned grape. ![]() If I were going to drink anything (besides eggnog) alongside the expensive-to-make Christmas cake, then surely it would be this super, vin santo style, Pizzini Per Gli Angeli 2012. We haven’t done it in years, but it was peak kid thrill to pull coins out of your dessert. I can remember a warm Christmas cake with coins stuck inside as a family Christmas tradition. Is there is any Xmas cake on your horizon this festive season? ![]()
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