We can start from antiquity, imagining Amphitryon, seated on the triclinium, enjoying his Vinum Falernum while attractive dancers sway to the sound of the drum and lyre. A perfect wine and music match.

We are in a Benedictine abbey, Il Nome della Rosa style, where the mass wine, a probable Sagrantino, is kept in the cellar. The wine also serves to drown the memories of a friar not too convinced of his faith, while a Gregorian chant echoes from the meanders of the castle.

How not to do everything to be admitted to Lorenzo de Medici‘s court? indulging in a spectacular banquet washed down with hectoliters of wine. Assisting the staging of the Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. The Happening of the century, I would say.

Taking care not to be killed in the alleys at night or to strike a fight with powerful lords and young scions of Roman families, let’s jump into early Baroque Rome.

Will we be able to infiltrate Cardinal del Monte‘s dining room? where a young Caravaggio indulges with the excellent Rossese di Dolceacqua while an organ mass echoes from the nearby church.

A visit to Piedmont is absolutely necessary to taste the Barolo that Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour is about to ship to the French court. The aim of the regalia is to convince the King to support the cause of the unity of Italy. Patriotic momentum.

Roaring 20s.

New York during Prohibition, surely it would be thrilling to sneak into a speakeasy inn, in secret. Drinking a forbidden old fashion cocktail while Duke Ellington plays an incredible swing music.

1930. Between the two wars.

A bottle (because a glass is certainly not enough) with Ernest Hemingway I would just drink it. I am just not sure about location.  Maybe, I could join him in Paris just before the Second War, where we could drink a Bordeaux wine. Edith Piaf sings live for us …… thrilling!

1950. In the world after World War II.

I would definitely take a trip to California for a trip to Napa Valley. The sparkling atmosphere of the end of the war certainly deserves to be celebrated with a bold Chardonnay from the new world.
Excuse me now, but I have to leave you, but I am invited to Milan, Maria Callas performs in Bellini’s Norma and I will enjoy it from a stage where I will need the excellent Moscato d’Asti.

In 1965, you have to go to France.

Let’s enjoy the wine, then invite some offspring of the Marey-Monge family to the Beatles concert in Paris. Strategically I will drive them back to Burgundy aboard a Dyna Junior. Consequently, he cannot fail to sell us a piece of land from Romanée-Conti. Alternatively, we grab two cases of wine and store them in a Swiss bank (air-conditioned). It will come in handy for our future dynasty.

1969, Woodstock, USA.

We cannot miss it. Perhaps it will be difficult to bring a bottle to the spartan chermesse, this time we will bring something else. But “the three days” of music cannot be missed for any reason in the world, even without the wine. What is the most “rock” wine? The one that shakes your soul from the depths.

70’s. no doubt: London.

The wine available on the market in those years will be very expensive French wine. But it will be worth it to celebrate the greatest progressive music of all time. I hold back until the 1980s because life is made up of priorities, after all.

2000s.

After the Pearl Jam concert, nobody takes a bottle of Roero with Eddie Vader. To follow, moreover, a lunch with Sting in his vineyard in Tuscany, we drink his wine, or anything else that would be fine, enjoying his company and music.
I put on a record and open a bottle. I got thirsty.
Daniela Cassoni