Vino cotto

[arty]

Hi Angie
Can't wait to try this dish - sounds fabulous! It's Sunday morning in the UK with grey skies (to be fair it was sunny yesterday!) and the sounds of baked figs, syrupy liquid, marscapone, yum yum ....

R x

[Geotherm]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Vino cotto started showing up around here at the start of the winter, our landlord shared some he had made and it had a stronger grape taste than vin santo or vino passito. There was some locally produced on store shelves for a couple months but has since disappeared. We really enjoyed vino cotto.

On Friday, I had one of the best Vino Cotto's that I have ever tasted. It was 12 years old and could not compare with many that I had tried previously. We were working on a project in Loro Piceno, when a local neighbour to the site came to see what was going on. He must have been in his 70's, and after trying to explain why we were laying 1 Km of pipes in the ground to heat a house, asked if we liked Cotto. 20 mins later he was back with a glass and a bottle that he had made, which he insisted we finished (3 contractors and myself ) that is!!

[Gala Placidia]

An Italian friend of mine told me that the best medication for a nasty cold was to have a glass of warm vino cotto (don't allow it to boil) and 2 aspirins or paracetamols just as you go to bed. Apparently, next morning you wake up feeling great. Worth a try!!!!

[adriatica]

we have an entrance to our house which we call the dog entrance... because in the winter its where we dry them if its raining ...but anyway that has little to do with vino cotto but the picture does...its a firplace solely dedicated to the making of cooked wine... basically the firplace is down below where the dip in the floor is ... and where the bricks acroos the whole width of the room is the cauldron...it takes aprox 500 litres of wines at a go... and is near enough 1.5 meteres in depth...

[villa sibillini]

The best vino cotto I ever had was whilst looking at some houses for sale, it was 40 years old and I slept all the way home in the car, god knows how strong it was.

We use our local farmers vino cotto for making a hunters chicken recipe. Would receommend it.

[damiano]

Originally Posted by villa sibillini

The best vino cotto I ever had was whilst looking at some houses for sale, it was 40 years old and I slept all the way home in the car, god knows how strong it was.

We use our local farmers vino cotto for making a hunters chicken recipe. Would receommend it.

Have you tried mistra made from vi cotto rather than wine- it avoids the need for geothermal heating-You can even make it yourself if you purchase one of the stills on sale at the pots and pan shop in Caldarola

[jowilliams]

I suddenly feel very hungry and thirsty!

LE MARCHE

[jepsonclough]

Our geometra offers us a glass off vin cotto or mistra every time we go on site - 9.30 in themorning is a bit early for me but I have managed a very small glass of the vin cotto to be polite. Apparently when he was a baby his nonna mistook a bottle of mistra for water & made up his formula with it - needless to say he was admitted to hospital!