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One sip and I can usually name the year, give or take two.
Sommelier at a restaurant in Monti. I spend the evenings decanting in the dining room or counting bottles in the cellar, and after work I take the Vespa along the Tiber.
Unpopular opinion
Most people would enjoy a twenty-euro bottle more than the one they ordered to impress the table.
What I'd do with a free afternoon
Ride out to a village in the hills for lunch and drink whatever the house pours without taking a single note.
We'll get along if
You order for yourself and let me order for me. Then we trade glasses.
A 1978 Barolo for a table that will finish it in ten minutes. I gave it the full hour in the decanter.
Past two in Trastevere. The fountain is the only thing still open.
