Carbone Dallas Wants You to Experience the Tuscan Throwdown of a Lifetime

Carbone —the celebrated Italian-American restaurant created by Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff Zalaznick—is offering a once-in-a-lifetime experience on six consecutive Wednesday evenings from September 25th to October 30th. Each week, two rare-vintage Tuscan wines will be uncorked and offered by the glass. These wines were selected based on rarity and superb flavor and reflect some of the most important vintages from the Tuscany region of Italy. Usually you'd need to fly yourself to Florence and experience the Tuscan countryside to have a steak & wine experience this extravagant.

To accompany these extraordinary wines, Chef Mario Carbone looked to Dallas’ Rosewood Ranches, known both for their dedication to animal care and quality production of American Wagyu Beef, for the ideal twenty-four-ounce Cowboy ($270 for two ) and fourteen-ounce Bone-In Strip ($160). The menu will also feature an eight-ounce Filet Mignon ($55), all offered simply grilled, with Chef’s exquisite Barolo Sauce (+$15), or Mare e Monte (+$15), topped with a red shrimp-based butter sauce, in the tradition of pairing sea and land, a little surf & turf if you please.

THE WINES

Week One

2019 Tenuta San Guido ‘Sassicaia,’ $195 per glass

Sassicaia is the wine that gave birth to the "Super Tuscan" movement. In the 1950s the Della Rochetta family planted Cabernet vines in Bolgheri taken from Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. Structured and powerful, Sassicaia is one of the most coveted wines of Italy.

2020 Antinori 'Tignanello,' $95 per glass

From its inaugural vintage in 1971, Piero Antinori’s ‘Tignanello’ has been a historically significant Tuscan pioneer. One of the first Sangiovese to be aged in small wooden barrels and the first to blend Sangiovese with Cabernet Sauvignon, it is plush, rich and velvety.

Week Two

2015 Biondi Santi Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, $300 per glass

Biondi Santi was the original Brunello di Montalcino estate dating back to the mid-19th century. The family is now in their 7th generation of winemaking and the wine's noble lineage and history is intertwined with the rise of Tuscany as the most important wine region in Italy. Their Brunello Riservas are sought after the world over for their ripeness and power.

2018 Gaja-Pieve Santa Restituta 'Rennina' Brunello di Montalcino, $140 per glass

Angelo Gaja brought Italian wine making into the modern era through the 1990s with world class Barolo, and then bought the Pieve Santa Restituta estate to bring his winemaking prowess to Tuscany. The ‘Rennina’ vineyard is their crown jewel, a paradoxical wine of elegance and power.

Week Three

2006 Soldera Brunello di Montalcino Riserva, $450 per glass

A relatively new Brunello estate, Soldera dates back to the 1970s. Fiercely obsessive in vineyard management and wine making, Gianluca Soldera showed the world the vast potential of the Sangiovese grape. Soldera only bottles riservas in the greatest vintages and they are simply unparalleled for their depth and intensity.

2018 Canalicchio di Sopra 'Montosoli' Brunello di Montalcino, $140 per glass

Canalicchio di Sopra was another early Brunello di Montalcino estate with a long history of age-worthy excellence. They are perched high up on the cooler northeast side of Montalcino. 'Montosoli' is one of the greatest Brunello vineyards and the wines are coveted for their high-toned, ripe red fruit and length on the palate.

Week Four

2019 Tenuta delle’Ornellaia ‘Masseto,’ $400 per glass

In the early 1980’s, Ludovico Antinori (brother of Piero) purchased the Ornellaia estate and noticed one site had blue clay soils like Pomerol in Bordeaux. Striving to make the Petrus of Tuscany, he planted merlot and started making a deep, rich 100% merlot wine that has quite simply become the greatest wine made in Italy. It is an excitingly intense cornucopia of plums, blackberries and leathery, earthy tones.

2018 Macchioli 'Messorio' Bolgheri, $175 per glass

Le Macchiole has been family owned since the 1980s and in the Bolgheri region of Tuscany. Their ‘Messorio’ wine is made from 100% Merlot and is designed to be their most powerful and impactful wine only from the best grapes in their vineyards. It is a full, mouth-filling & pleasurable wine.

Week Five

2015 Valdicava 'Madonna del Piano' Brunello di Montalcino, $250 per glass

Through force of will and striving for Beauty, Vincenzo Abbruzzese spent the 1980s and 1990s drastically improving his grandparents’ estate into one of the region's elite Brunello di Montalcino estates. The ‘Madonna del Piano’ vineyard is their flagship wine and is one of the purest expressions of raspberry & floral scented sangiovese in Montalcino.

2020 Antinori Bolgheri ‘Guado al Tasso,’ $95 per glass

‘Guado al Tasso’ is Antinori's estate on the Tuscan coast, overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea. This amphitheater-shaped growing region allows for the perfect ripening of grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc. With warm days and cool nights, the wines are firm & ripe but with an enveloping elegance.

Week Six

2010 Poggio di Sotto 'Riserva' Brunello di Montalcino, $350 per glass

A relative new-comer, Poggio di Sotto was established in 1989 and quickly grew into a Brunello favorite among aficionados. Obsessed with quality, the wine was created with the premise of perfection and has achieved cult status for its intense complexity and harmonious balance. It is grace in a glass.

2015 Fontodi 'Flaccianello', $125 per glass

The Fontodi estate in Chianti Classico has been planted with vines since Roman times and was purchased by the Manetti family in the late 1960s. In the 1980s Giovanni Manneti wanted to show the world the quality of Sangiovese and started making a 100% Sangiovese called 'Flaccianello' from the estate's greatest plots of Sangiovese. It has developed into one of the world's most sought after and complex wines.

The wines selected for the program reflect the connection to Italian heritage and the environment for which Carbone is known, simultaneously elegant, comfortable and unpretentious.

“ These wines are very difficult to source and we are fortunate to be able to share them from these extraordinary vintages ,” said John Slover, National Beverage Director, Major Food Group. “ The Carbone Dallas wine collection includes more than 1000 references, and 10,000 bottles valued at over $1 million. When a rare wine is uncorked, it is limited to the table. We felt that offering this experience by the glass would involve more of our wine enthusiasts and expose more of our guests to these incomparable flavors ,” he added.

The Carbone Dallas Steak & Super Tuscans menu starts availability on Wednesday evenings beginning on Wednesday, September 25th through Wednesday, October 30th. Carbone Dallas is located at No. 1617 Hi Line Drive, Dallas, TX 75207.

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