by Donatella Cinelli Colombini

Wine experts snub them by branding them as thirst quenchers without real quality but actually they exist all over the world. The French call them vins de soif that is wines for thirst, in English they take the name of poolwine which corresponds to the swimming pool wines proposed by the Lucanian sommelier Vincenzo Donatiello.

VINCENZO DONATIELLO AND POOLWINES

It was this thirty-year-old professional who proposed them for the first time in Italy in 2018. Vincenzo was the maître of the Piazza Duomo restaurant in Alba until February 2022, with the starred chef Enrico Crippa.He is therefore not a fanatic of “first price” bottles but he is also creative enough to understand that there is a difference between a gourmet lunch and a glass to drink without focusing on the appreciation of the organoleptic characteristics. Donatiello’s innovative vision is also expressed by the “Dictionary for waiters” of which he is the author, and in his articles in Intravino and in the wine section of the Lifestylie newspaper il Gattopardo.

POOL WINES NOT AS DRINKS BUT AS A DISCOVERY OF DIFFERENT, INTRIGUING AND NON-TROVIAL PLEASURES

From the same fertile mind, in 2018, the idea of ​​POOL WINES came out, that is, light, immediate, simple and obviously thirst-quenching.

How to recognize them?…

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