This weekend at Madrona Wine we are exploring Italian terroir. Terroir is how a particular region’s climate, soils and terrain affect the taste of wine. we’ll be tasting through a full line up both Saturday & Sunday. Sunday is also the Artist Reception for our new show. Scroll down for more info or just come on by for a look.
Saturday:
Tenuta Col Sandago Extra Dry Prosecco $18
2015 Colpaola, Verdicchio di Matelica $17
2014 Filodivino, Lacrima di Moro d’Alba Diana $12
2016 Tiziano Mazzoni, Colline Novaresi Nebbiolo del Monteregio $25
2013 Giovanna Madonia, Ombroso Sangiovese di Romagna DOC Riserva $32
Sunday we have a pair from Piedmont.
2017 Ca’ Gialla Roero Arneis $11
Hints of white and citrus fruit notes of savory and freshness. Organic.
2016 Riva Leone Barbera $12
Fresh, with mature plum scents this easy drinking Barbera is great with dinner or by itself.
Sunday 3pm to 5pm is the Artist’s Reception for our new duo show by Amy Hanada Nikaitani and Michelle Kumata.
Michelle Kumata’s Nihonmachi series is based on pre-WWII photos of the Japanese American community, when Seattle’s Japantown was a bustling, vibrant neighborhood. The imagers were inspired by found photos and the Takano Studio Collection at Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience.
Amy Hanada Nikaitani was born in 1923 on Halloween Day in Seattle, Washington in a hotel near 6th and Weller which her father operated. Imagine, now she is living in Washington Terrace on 6th and Yesler!!! Born to immigrants from Japan, Kuramatsu and Matsu Takami Hanada.
She had been interested in the female figure all her life, playing with paper dolls as a child, drawing fashion figures and bathing beauties on her notebooks and also on her stationary as she corresponded with many GI friends during WWII.
After high school she hoped to attend art school. Her father, concerned for her financial security, sent her to the Charette School of Costume Design in Seattle, instead. She had only started her studies, when World War II and the internment orders interrupted her plans.
Her entire family moved to Wyoming to avoid the internment. From there, she married and became a mother of four. She put her artistic aspirations on hold, but in the back of her mind thought she would return to art someday.
While raising her children she attended Edison Technical School and studied at the Burnley School of Art.
After having a fifth child she went to work at Boeing in a Graphics Group for 18 years. During this time she continued her interest in the female figure, becoming a fixture in local figure drawing groups.
Madrona Wine Merchants offers free wine tastings featuring 4-5 selections on a theme every Saturday from 2 until the bottles run out and on Sunday, we offer a mini-tasting of two wines all day from 11-5.