Damp Plaster, Daily Deadline
TASTING NOTES: “A fresh and delicious Prosecco Rosé with floral, pomegranate, and stone fruit characters.” (AbV 11%)
VARIETALS: 85% Glera, 15% Pinot Noir
BARRELS: Controlled temperature tanks.
PAIRS WITH: Excellent as an aperitif. Ideal companion of finger foods, pasta, delicate cheeses and small pastry
THAT REMINDS ME OF: Il Fresco.
That’s just Italian for “the fresh” or “the cool one,” but it’s also, not coincidentally, the name of a 500-year-old painting technique — buon fresco, where you apply pigment directly onto wet plaster instead of a dry, prepped surface. The word means “fresh” because the plaster has to be, literally, still damp when the paint goes on. Once it dries, the whole thing chemically locks in: the lime in the plaster reacts with air and seals the pigment into the wall itself, which is why fresco can survive centuries while a lot of other paint just flakes off.
The catch is that “wet plaster” gives you a shockingly small window — a few hours, tops — before it sets and stops absorbing color. So Renaissance painters worked in daily sections called giornate (literally “day’s work”), plastering only as much wall as they could realistically finish before quitting time. Art historians can actually trace these seams on the Sistine Chapel ceiling today — faint edges where one day’s rush job meets the next — which means Michelangelo’s masterpiece is, structurally, a four-year deadline sprint stitched together one damp afternoon at a time.
ICYMI, you have two choices:
- Worried Summer heat might get to your wine before your wine gets to you? Order from the sale linked here, and we’ll get it to you at a cooler time of year!
- Want it shipped now? Every package during the summer will have protected temp control ground shipping for much of the country that takes longer but will ensure safe delivery. Expect up to two weeks for delivery. Now through the September 12th offer.
