Colli Oriantali del Friuli Azienda Ermacora

Last autumn, the culinary highlight of a three-day visit to northern Italy was dinner in the Ermacora family kitchen. The vegetables were all from the kitchen garden; the vinegar had been matured in a battery of small barrels high in the attic; the hen had been running around the yard quite contentedly until the day before we arrived, when Elsa, Dario's wife, decided she'd do for dinner; and the wines, of course, were from the vines that surround the house.

Only pudding, a fancy confection from a pasticceria in Cividale, had been bought. Fresh ingredients, locally sourced, simply and perfectly prepared. 'What could be better?' asked the chef/patron of Bocca di Lupo. 'This is what real cooking is all about.' And if you go to what many people consider to be London's best Italian restaurant, you'll be able to taste many of Dario Ermacora's sensational wines.

Wines

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