Dusit Thani Italian Wine Dinner Offers Wines From Piedmont

The Dusit Thani Bangkok is hosting yet another wine dinner in April on the 30th in the hotel’s Italian restaurant, Il Cielo. This dinner will be matching the great food of the restaurant with some of the high-quality Italian wines from the Bersano winery, the Piedmont region’s largest privately owned winery which was established over 200 years ago by Giuseppe Bersano. Piedmont is in the far northwest part of Italy and wine production there goes back two thousand years or more.

With 46 different DOC and four DOCG areas, Piedmont is the region that produces the largest number of best known, noble, and world-appreciated prize-winning wines, such as Barbera, Barolo, Barbaresco, Dolcetto, Nebbiolo, Grignolino, Malvasia and Asti Spumante among others. Another distinguished characteristic of Piedmont is that most of its wines are produced on family estates made up of relatively small parcels of land.

The main grape grown here is the distinguished Nebbiolo, which is the base for the famed Barolo, Barbaresco and Gattinara among others. Its name derives from the word nebbia, or fog, because of a velvety, whitish coating over its berries in addition to the fact that it grows in an area where, at ripening time in September, heavy morning fog is a given and the humidity that it provides gives the grapes an ideal habitat.

The production of strong reds is predominant in this landlocked, mountainous region and are the perfect complement to the rich and hearty cuisine featuring white truffles, fonduta, which is a variation of the Swiss cheese fondue, rice, meats, pastas and stuffed vegetables.

And it looks as if the menu for this wine dinner will complement the wines very well since the Dusit people have put together a menu that uses many of these same ingredients as you can see below:

1.    Marinated scallop carpaccio and blue crab timbale  
With preserved peach and pink peppercorn dressing , micro greens with shaved fennel.  
Wine - GAVI  2007
2.    Soft potato and spinach gnocchi
With winter truffles and Sage butter with Lamb jus.
Wine - DOLCETTO D’ALBA,COLDELFOSSO 2007
3.    Royal project rabbit braised in “generala” with a hint of vanilla
And Stuffed with pistachio and  berries , served with artichoke puree and hazelnut oil.
Wine - BARBERA D’ASTI SUPERIORE, GENERALA 2004
4.    Juniper dusted roasted Venison loin
 poached pear in red wine and star anise , served with butter nut flan and  cranberry and jus.
Wine - BAROLO,NIRVASCO 2004
5.    Blueberry and lemon cake
Served with wild strawberry and rosemary sauce.
Wine - MOSCATO D’ASTI 2007

This looks to be another of the Dusit’s well-designed dinners so if you want to experience wines and food from this ancient wine-making region, contact the hotel and make your reservation now. The cost is 2,200 baht++.