Friday Night Flights Bites + Frights is here!
Events
Let’s eat, drink, and be scary! We’re hosting Britt from Tramonte and Sons for a spooky edition of Friday Night Flights + Bites! Grab your tickets now for a great lineup of wines and pairings. Keep an eye on our socials for a peek at the lineup.
We’re extremely excited to host a Holiday Sip & Shop Pop-up with Missie Myers from Scatter Joy on Friday, November 15th from 5-7pm. The Piazza Discepoli team will be picking a selection of crowd-pleasing wines that are sure to be a hit at any event you’re headed to this year and Missie will be personalizing gifts for you here at the shop. You can also pre-order custom gift baskets, charcuterie boards, tortas, and any of your other holiday favorites.
Purchase Flights + Bites tickets here
Purchase Holiday Sip & Shop Pop-up tickets here
Gourmet Updates
Just in time for Halloween on Thursday, Chef Serenity’s specials this week are a Butternut Squash & Sage Sausage Soup, White Bean Feta Salad, and a little sweet treat this week (no tricks required) Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Tart!
We’ve been stocking the cheese case with all the classics and we hope you’ll find a new favorite among the newbies we’ve been bringing in. Last week we talked about the 60-month aged gouda, smoked goat, and New School American slices. This week we’re excited to bring an aged goat to the shop. Grab a piece of Baetje Farms’ Amoureux. The Amoureux Aged Cheese is modeled after the French Morbier Cheese named for the small village of Morbier in Franche-Comté (remeber Comté, October’s cheese of the month?). The Amoureux is made from 100% goats milk and has a distinctive horizontal line of ash through the center. The Amoureux is a hard dry cheese aged around 6 months. It’s great on a cheese board or can be shredded, shaved, or grated on your favorite dishes. The Amoureux is sometimes compared to parmesan, manchego and pecorino cheese, it pairs nicely with full bodied whites, dessert wines, and tannic red wines.
We create hand-crafted, custom charcuterie and cheese boards for all occasions and any number of people. Order by emailing Serenity using the link below, giving us a call at 513-561-6956, or stopping in the shop.
Wines
We’re excited to partner with Skurnik to offer Piazza Discepoli customers great vintage port finds from Kopke going all the way back to 1937! If you’re hunting for a trophy bottle or an amazing gift, we can help you get your hands on it. Vintages available are listed below, if you are interested in obtaining a bottle give us a call.
All orders need to be placed by noon on Friday, November 8th.
Skurnik has 35 vintages of Colheita port from Kopke available, all of which have been cellared perfectly and provide a great opportunity to obtain that special bottle. Kopke has a rich history as Portugal’s oldest Port house, since 1638 Kopke has been crafting exceptional port wines and continues to separate themselves to this day as THE Colheita house in Portugal. Kopke ages its colheitas (a white or tawny Port from a single vintage) in the Port lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia, located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. Portuguese port producers, including Kopke, set themselves apart from the typical English-style, bottle-matured ports we typically see in the States by slowly aging their port wines in wood barrels.
All colheitas must be aged for a minimum of seven years in wood, but are usually aged much longer, allowing controlled oxidation over time. As a result the wines develop evolved, mellow notes of dried fruit, nuts and spice. The cooler temperatures of Vila Nova de Gaia ensure freshness in the colheitas; as opposed to styles aged in the warmer Douro Valley, which are characterized by baked, caramelized flavors known as ‘Douro bake’.
Kopke Colheitas are bottled to order, hand-stenciled and released in limited amounts. If you haven’t tried Kopke yet, you’re really missing out, we have a couple non-vintage Kopke ports in the shop ready for you to take home and drink today.
Kopke Colheita Vintages available
1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1974, 1975, 1967, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1987, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014
Kopke White Colheita Vintages available
2002, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2013
Kopke Vintages available
2016
Are you looking for something special or specific? Please feel free to email Rob with any wine questions or needs at the link below or give us a call in the shop at 513-561-6956. We’re always happy to source something for you if we don’t currently carry it in the store.
Pre-Orders and Holiday Gifting
Pre-orders are now open for Thanksgiving, give us a call or visit our website to submit a pre-order request. Keep an eye on the newsletters, we’ll let you know as soon as the seasonal Walnut Stilton Torta will be available.
In addition to the ever-popular torta and charcuterie boards, we also make custom gift baskets. We’re working with Scatter Joy on customized items that are great for gifting. And our selection of wine bags and coolers would be great embroidered - check in next door at Just Add Embroidery to have custom embroidery done. Not sure what to get someone? Who wouldn’t love wine and a book? Stop in over at The Bookshelf to find the perfect book to pair with your gift basket. Have something particular in mind? Ask us! It might be something we can source for you. If you have something already purchased, just drop it off and we can add it to a gift basket for you.
Contact us if you have any questions or special requests, you can email Heather using the link below or calling us at 513-561-6956.
