Dr. Ralph's Kosher White Wine Recs for Sukkot

holiday sitdown. >> It's almost sick. Everybody's busy and I'm busy, too. But I asked Ralph to come over. >> I asked Ralph to come over to do a little um >> how do you how do you say it in in >> review in English? >> In English, it's review about Italian wines and uh what the doctor has given us the past couple years. >> The truth is we're we're we're due for Pascaya visit. We really got to go back. We have our sparkly. Yeah, >> you we have to go. Okay, we have to go. And the sparkling wines getting ready. >> So, let's talk about this. >> But I got to tell you, I'm happy to be in this room. This is Mo's bat cave. All the big mach are in this room. And Sukkot is coming. The weather is phenomenal. It's phenomenal. We got very lucky. Thanks to Abishta. Thanks to the Aishta. And guess what? White wine is where it's at. And I told you this. >> White wines and lighter reds. >> Lighter reds. Ponoirs. I love the whites. The luxe champagne. Only by you. Yeah. >> Only by you. >> The Lux Champagne. >> This one. >> Lux Champagne. Only by you. It was a private. >> It was a private run that he he did. >> Was one of our guys probably have it in a white and rosé. >> Gorgeous mirrored bottle >> made by my good friend, my good friend Benjamin Uzan Wentem. Great story behind this wine. Why is it called Jeeper? Because back in World War II after the Shaw, after the Holocaust, the one of the American one of the American vets wanted to stay there and he would take his jeep and run through the champagne in France in the in the hills of champagne Italy 2 minutes. >> But now in France, cuz I just want to say that if it was me in the suka, I'm I'm opening up the meal. This is what I'm starting with. >> It's going to be me. >> In fact, you know, maybe you gift this to me because you're the only one with it. And basically, that's what we're going to open. Well, you see, there he goes. It's cheap. What can I tell you? >> But me and him never agree. In fact, we're talking about the white wines of Italy. >> I'm a Falangina man. >> Yeah, >> he's a Greco man. >> Where's I put it? Here it is. This is the GO. >> There's the Greco. Tell Maybe you tell people the difference because they come into the store and they don't know. And >> no, let's say we're busy. They're not going to ask us. They see the label, they grab it, but it looks the same. One is Greco and one is Palenina. >> Yes. Now in the south of Italy, everybody knows about you've been there. Termali coast. That designation for Italian wine is Compana. And in Compana there's three white grapes. Fano, which we don't bring in yet. It's coming. Felangina, which is the most robust, and Greco Dufo. Greco Dufo is the most noble Italian or one of the oldest varieties of white wines of all of Italy. And it's from the south. That's where they do it. That's where they grow it. The difference between that and felangina, which is what your question is, I see already. Well, opposites, opposites attract, but basically Greco is a much finer, a little most, it has a beautiful minerality at the end, but it's much more oily. It's a little bit heavier. It's not as heavy as Chardonnay. >> So, you would say Greco pairs with food is like your sincere. We're running out of time. >> Boom. Boom. Boom. You drink. You love it. You open it. You make it nice and cold. Felang, that's where it's at. You want to be like, >> what's the next one that you want to talk about? >> The next one is a real shard. >> Fumi, when is the first time we went to that one? >> I It could be 2020 and I probably went a year before anyway to meet that reason. >> Yes. You know why? Because Amaron is going to be ready at the end of the year. >> So, you guys probably saw that beautiful uh winery that >> the Roman temple on. >> Yes. And we posted >> the attic. the attic where they dry the grapes >> for that which is not here yet. But we kept on posting on the story over and over every time we went to Italy. >> 28th generation wine makers love Israel. They've been in Israel >> and uh finally finally this is the first one >> the first juice >> the first juice that arrived over here. So we're very excited and I invited over Ralph of Sikas to drink it together. So what can you tell me about uh fresh to God for letting us have this? >> It's a Chardonnet. >> Chardonnay. And this got to thank Armando Fumelli. Great friend of ours. It's been here many times. One of the preeminent amaron wine makers in all of North Italy. >> Go for it. Where's your >> So now we're going to pair it because it's a shardon. Pizza time. No gravy. because this guy can't go 5 minutes without talking or eating. Put one in here. Make a little bra here. This one is really really nice. >> This is anybody who has Chardonnay. This is um from North Italy. It's about 45 minutes from uh Venice. And >> it's a place called Verona. >> Verona. >> It's beautiful little town. That's where Vin Italy was at that time. Beautiful time. Romeo and Juliet and this is classic of what you would think of a chardonnay and a cold climate chardonnay. It's not really like tuskin or the southern part of Italy. It's a little colder climate. Cold climate. The best way which which was mentioned was it's more vibrant. It's dancing. It's very lively. You get you're getting beautiful fruit and you get a little minerality at the end. You get a it's not as mineral as like a burgundy or >> shaveli. Shabli is rounder than or this. >> No, I think this is more rounder. I think the shabli versus burgundy is probably more mineraly, more stone earth type. >> But I I love shabl, but I really like this one >> cuz cold climate. You're going to get a lot of and it's oak and it's aged on the lee. So, you know, you get a full wine, >> but it's not a it's not going to be very flabby. It's not going to be It's going to have acid to it, but maybe not as much as a shabi. It's going to have mineral, but maybe not as much, but much more than a California like a Chalk Hill Chardonnay or something of that nature. >> So guys, it's very simple. If you love good Chardonnese, if it's California, if it's Chabli, if it's even Israeli good chards, you're going to love this one. You're going to love it. >> It's beautiful. It's easy drinking. It's not too too sophisticated in that aspect. It's beautiful. It pairs fruit great with food. It's a full wine. It's a rounder wine and it's just something you can enjoy, kick back, relax. Great to start the meal on sukus. >> What's next? [Music]