Hazelnut cookies and Montefalco Sagrantino Passito!
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Days slowly begin to shorten and make you want to spend more time at home enjoying a good homemade dessert!
Why don’t you start with some… special cookies?
Here we give you the recipe for delicious biscuits with hazelnuts and Montefalco Sagrantino Passito sent by Matteo here, on the blog dedicated to the recipes you create by using the products of the Montioni cellar and oil mill.
Feel free to create the shapes you prefer, but keep in mind that their original shape is a typical… donut!
Recipe: hazelnut cookies and Montefalco Sagrantino Passito
Ingredients:
– 1 glass Sagrantino Passito
– 1 glass Extra Virgin Olive Oil
– 1 glass sugar
– 100 gr hazelnuts
– 1/2 sachet of baking powder
– Flour to taste
Pairing Between Kitchen and Cellar
Montefalco Sagrantino Passito and Montioni extra virgin olive oil.
Method:
1) In a mixing bowl, pour a glass of Sagrantino Passito, a glass of Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and a glass of sugar, then mix all.
2) Add flour and baking powder until you get a smooth and soft dough.
3) Then add the coarsely chopped hazelnuts, after toasting them in a pan for 5 minutes.
4) Roll out the dough with a rolling pin (about half a cm). Once the biscuits are shaped, sprinkle one side with sugar.
5) Bake at 350 °F for about 20 min.
And here you are, hazelnut biscuits and Sagrantino Passito are ready to be enjoyed!
The perfect pairing? A good glass of Sagrantino Passito Montioni, to sip during a warm autumn evening, between one hazelnut cookie and another.
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2) Aggiungere un cucchiaino di lievito per dolci, quindi amalgamare.
3) Foderare una teglia con carta da forno
4) Fare con l’impasto dei rotolini e poi unire i due estremi di ciascun rotolino per formare una ciambellina.
5) Ripassare la ciambellina nello zucchero, avanti e dietro, poi disporre sulla teglia.
6) Infornare le ciambelline a 190° per 7 minuti
Ed ecco pronte le nostre ciambelline al Sagrantino Passito Montioni!
L’abbinamento che vi consigliamo? Ovviamente un calice di Sagrantino Passito Montioni o, in alternativa, il nostro vino più amato ovvero il Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG Montioni!
Alla prossima ricetta del blog dell’Azienda Agricola Montioni, Tra Cucina e Cantina!
On occasion, the winemaker may decide to leave them in if the grapes themselves contain less tannin than desired. This is more acceptable if the stems have ‘ripened’ and started to turn brown. If increased skin extraction is desired, a winemaker might choose to crush the grapes after destemming.
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.
Removal of stems first means no stem tannin can be extracted. In these cases the grapes pass between two rollers which squeeze the grapes enough to separate the skin and pulp, but not so much as to cause excessive shearing or tearing of the skin tissues. In some cases, notably with “delicate” red varietals such as Pinot noir or Syrah, all or part of the grapes might be left uncrushed (called “whole berry”) to encourage the retention of fruity aromas through partial carbonic maceration.
The Grapes
The quality of the grapes determines the quality of the wine more than any other factor. Grape quality is affected by variety as well as weather during the growing season, soil minerals and acidity, time of harvest, and pruning method. The combination of these effects is often referred to as the grape’s terroir.
Grapes are usually harvested from the vineyard from early September until early November in the northern hemisphere, and mid February until early March in the southern hemisphere.
In some cool areas in the southern hemisphere, for example Tasmania, harvesting extends into May. The most common species of wine grape is Vitis Vinifera, which includes nearly all varieties of European origin. The most common species of wine grape is Vitis Vinifera, which includes nearly all varieties of European origin.
Manual harvesting is the hand-picking of grape clusters from the grapevines. In the United States, some grapes are picked into one- or two-ton bins for transport back to the winery. Manual harvesting has the advantage of using knowledgeable labor to not only pick the ripe clusters but also to leave behind the clusters that are not ripe or contain bunch rot or other defects. This can be an effective first line of defense to prevent inferior quality fruit from contaminating a lot or tank of wine.
Destemming is the process of separating stems from the grapes. Depending on the winemaking procedure, this process may be undertaken before crushing with the purpose of lowering the development of tannins and vegetal flavors in the resulting wine. Single berry harvesting, as is done with some German Trockenbeerenauslese, avoids this step altogether with the grapes being individually selected.
Crushing is the process when gently squeezing the berries and breaking the skins to start to liberate the contents of the berries. Destemming is the process of removing the grapes from the rachis (the stem which holds the grapes).
In traditional and smaller-scale wine making, the harvested grapes are sometimes crushed by trampling them barefoot or by the use of inexpensive small scale crushers. These can also destem at the same time. However, in larger wineries, a mechanical crusher/destemmer is used. The decision about destemming is different for red and white wine making. Generally when making white wine the fruit is only crushed, the stems are then placed in the press with the berries. The presence of stems in the mix facilitates pressing by allowing juice to flow past flattened skins.
Katerina Monroe
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Congratulations on the award, it's well deserved! You guys definitely know what you're doing. Looking forward to my next visit to the winery!
