Marsala wine

But also in the years, we have a lot of pairing and a lot of experience, very interesting.

So also with the, maybe after the dish with the a long, very long-aged Parmigiano-Reggiano, 60 months, 70 months, you can pair with the Marsala to give you an idea, or Scottish whiskey, or Amarone, also a lot of wine, okay? With, or Lambrusco, so the same territory here.

We can try, uh, a lot of experience, and the different aging of Parmigiano-Reggiano, they give us a very high variability also in the flavor and aroma.

In the context, we have a very big context, okay? So we can use it for a lot of, uh, different pairing.

But the main thing is that liquid is just liquid gold, and, you know, there's things you can do like instead of just reconstituting it in, uh, water, you could use chicken broth or you could add a little alcohol.

You know, like oftentimes porcini in particular are, you know, maybe resuscitated with a little bit of Madeira or Marsala or something like that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Do run it through a cheesecloth or just through a strainer of some kind because the liquid, there could be sediment at the bottom, but it's really yummy stuff.

Any rate, Chris?

So when I get older, I'll have my wife resuscitate me with Marsala?

[laughs] Yeah, why not?

But there's some highlights.

So we went to Florio, which is the home, not the home of Marsala, but it is the last of it, right? So Enzo Florio, if you ever get a chance or you're interested in Sicily and all my guests got a watch.

I used to give them a reading list and I realized now that they're not going to read anything.

So now I give them a watch list of movies and documentaries to watch.

Yeah.

That place is just, I mean, it's owned by a big, it's owned by a big conglomerate now, but it's still, they do the history so beautifully.

And you understand Marsala is not just for a chicken dish.

It is a wine on its own.

Perché anche senza un solo filare di uva sul territorio, per secoli gli inglesi sono stati i più grandi commercianti e conoscitori del vino europeo e mondiale.

Se abbiamo il Bordeaux, il Marsala, il Porto, lo Champagne, dobbiamo molto anche a loro.

Provate a immaginare quindi per un inglese cosa possa significare oggi avere uno spumante d'eccellenza prodotto a pochi chilometri da Londra.

Contorni è un podcast di Coramedia realizzato con il sostegno di Davide Longoni, parte del gruppo Breders.

Pale sherry, three pound.

Marsala, two pound.

Madeira, four pound.

Clarets, Bordeaux, one pound six.

For a while.

But I think still for the consumer, the thought of Sicilian wine outside of Marsala is relatively new and exciting.

Right.

And like giving them something unique, a varietal maybe they've never had, that introductory aspect.

But I think that'll be kind of s-

Marsala.

Marsala.

We made chicken meatballs Marsala back in the day on, uh, on The Soonish, you mean meatballs.

Um, [laughs] we made, uh, chicken meatball Marsala back in the day on the, on The Chew.

Actually, that sounds delicious.

But I think because they're chicken, you can go any- you can do a curry sauce.

From bistro menus to your table, these vulnerable dishes are always in style by Robin Miller.

Chicken Marcella.

Chicken Marcella is the marriage of a classic French pan sauce technique and Italian ingredients, namely Marcella wine from Sicily.

It seems French residents and chefs living in Sicily in the 19th century can buy an Italian side of chicken scallopini with a French-style pan sauce reduction made with local fortified wine, Marcella wine.

Today the dish is more closely associated with Italian-American cuisine because the formula was brought to America by Sicilian immigrants.

This chicken marsala features ultra-tender chicken and buttery brown mushrooms and a satiny marsala wine cream sauce.

Sticking to oak, we've got some Hungarian oak here.

So this is Quercus vitrea from the Zeppelin Mountains in in Hungary and that then went to a bodega in Spain was used for all oral so sherry and it's a 300 litre cask and that's it after maturation and then if you like something a little bit different more fortified wine this is a Marsala cask released so this is a Marsala Virginia so it's a bone dry Marsala from from Sicily, and that bone-dry masala works particularly well with their spirit.

So, yeah, probably could cater for whatever you like.

There's plenty of choices.