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BOUTIQUE WINES ARTISAN SPIRITS ESSENTIAL OILS C R A F T B E E R SOFT DRINKS YOUR PURVEYOR OF EXCLUSIVE ITALIAN PRODUCTS TRADE JOURNAL 2 0 2 1 / 2 2 CONTACTS Tel/WhatsApp: +852 5219 6457 Email: [email protected] AUTHENTICITY AT YOUR DOORSTEPS W H O W E A R E Salotto Lounge was founded in 2016 to We are proud of our worldview rooted in support restaurants, bars and hotels with curiosity and social awareness. Our vision the most unique and exclusive Italian can be trusted to analyze market trends for products. In the span of a few years, Salotto the benefit of our network. Lounge has grown in maturity and Salotto Lounge builds on over 400 years of intellect, establishing itself as a dynamic experience in winemaking and trading. company and a one-stop business solution Our partners are family-run, often for the best Italy has to offer. We rely on independent producers, who are extensive family and commercial ties in passionate about their work. Product Italy to provide an all-round service quality is guaranteed by years of detail- involving procurement, distribution, oriented loving care for the terroir and consultancy and event management. Our local traditions, with insightful knowledge team comprises a mix of versatile skills, passed down through generations. Our matured over forty years of international products are of excellent workmanship, trade, applied research, entrepreneurship, which we maintain through careful bartending and social enterprise. monitoring of the entire delivery chain. OUR 2021/22 JOURNAL We enter 2021/22 with fresh targets and the There are six sections in this journal. Wine feverish desire to attain new objectives, as is our most notable passion for the ability we gained experience over a most troubled of this natural product to bring a whole and challenging year. Consequently, this territory and the hard work of the people journal is both the extension of the work who cultivate it into a simple glass. commenced with its previous edition and Fortified, spiced and vermouth wines the outcome of Covid-19 situations that constitute the natural extension of the have strained the F&B industry in Hong previous one in which we believe and are Kong and elsewhere. New product sections gradually gaining popularity in Hong Kong. have been included in our portfolio. Others Grappa constitutes the section that have been strategically expanded to meet concludes our search for the finest, most and create popular demand. sophisticated and the least known This journal remains a work in progress. We products derived from Italian grapes. This is are constantly looking for the best, most a product category we particularly love and innovative and trendy products and cannot promote assiduously. exclude, and indeed quite frankly The Italian spirits and liqueurs section is anticipate, that more products will find the most variegated, vastly assorted with a their way in our portfolio in the next mix of renowned and new trendy brands. months. And yet, this journal will form the This is followed by a section on our unique core of our offer for 2021/22 and beyond. It essential oil fragrant scents made to is intended to be a sales guide to aid garnish cocktails and food. These are the workers in restaurants, bars and retail perfect combination of natural ingredients shops. It is not intended as a mere list of and fine workmanship now appreciated by products, but a concise compendium of the best bartenders and chefs around the usable information and shareable world. Finally, we list our Italian craft beer, knowledge available for consultation to as well as bottle cocktails, food ingredients, inform an increasingly mature public non-alcoholic drinks and premium mineral attentive to novel products. water. 5 IN THIS JOURNAL 06 WINE The best of Italy's regional uncharted wines 64 FORTIFIED WINE & VERMOUTH Unparalleled Marsala and dessert wines, vermouth and flavoured wines 86 GRAPPA The largest selection of Grappa and grape distillates in Hong Kong 120 SPIRITS & LIQUEURS The artisan and most trendy liquors to make your cocktails the talk of the town 162 ESSENTIAL OILS Unique food-grade organic essential oils to garnish cocktails and food in style 170 CRAFT BEER Tons of character in beers that keep a close eye on tradition 174 PANTRY Classy non-alcohol drinks and food ingredients WINE Wine is key to Italy by virtue of its ancient tradition. It is attested that its production in the Italian peninsula began in the eighth century BC. However, it was with the Romans that wine became popular, as they committed to spreading wine- making techniques throughout Europe. Today, Italy is by far the country with the largest and most diverse wine production in the world. The climatic conditions, the numerous vines, the geological characteristics and the conformation of the territory make Italy the ideal place for the production of quality wines with diversified notes and distinctions. When we talk about Italian wines, the first mentioned are generally the reds of Piedmont and Tuscany: Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti. Italian wines, however, are neither limited to, nor can they be summed up by these appellations and production areas. Our wine list is carefully curated to bring to Hong Kong the best of the regional uncharted wines of Italy. We do not seek obnoxiously huge brands and abused appellations. We choose instead to focus on novelty and top-notch modern quality wines. Further, we only focus on carefully handcrafted, artisan wines the Hong Kong retail user is ready to experience and treasure. We stand 100 per cent behind each and every wine in this list and strongly recommend them to stand prominently in your wine list. 7 PIEMONTE WHITE TIMORASSO Timorasso is a rare grape variety that grows in about 100 hectares of vineyards in South Piedmont only. Timorasso was popular in ancient times and was listed in 1885 as one of the "most cultivated grapes used to produce wine” in Piedmont. Phylloxera in the late 1800s was probably the reason why this grape gradually went virtually extinct. In the past 30 years a small number of brave producers have reintroduced Timorasso, because this grape tends to produce wines that are extraordinarily bodied, with astounding notes of tropical fruit in some examples, and more floral notes in others. It also responds well to oak maturation, which gives wines more complexity, depth and body than any other Italian white. It evolves beautifully when aged. Both intense and TIMORASSO delicate, elegant and fragrant, with typical Oltretorrente, mineral aromas of tar and Colli Tortonesi DOC flint evolving in an exquisite bouquet of Timorasso white flowers. On the palate it is extremely complex, intense, with suggestions of orchard fruit, citrus and white flowers married with a honeyed note beautifully balanced by perfect acidity and flinty minerality. It may go through malolactic fermentation but nothing is done to manipulate that outcome. Organic. ABV: 13,5% Service: 13/14 C ERBALUCE DI PIANDORO CALUSO Tenute Sella, Oliviero Pastoris, Piemonte DOC Erbaluce di Caluso DOCG Unique blend of two very Produced in limited quantity different grapes that join to with one of the most noble of create an intriguing and Piedmont's white grapes, this graceful wine, broad and wine has bright and light harmonious. Characteristic are green nuances and brilliant the evident aromatic profile of limpidity. It is fresh and dry, the Riesling, an unusual variety with a delicate bouquet of in High Piedmont, and the wild flowers, acacia and broad and lively structure of whitethorn. Wine that shines the Erbaluce. Particularly in all its complexity and intense, mineral and savory, delicate structure, with strong with vegetal and mineral ageing ability. scents. ABV: 13.5% ABV: 13% Service: 11/12 C Service: 11/12 C Erbaluce Erbaluce, Riesling 9 BIANCO SENSAZIONI Oltretorrente, Colli Tortonesi DOC Ferraris, Piemonte Viognier DOC Dense in chalk and mineral content, with concentrated Intriguing white wine made ripe yellow and white fruit, from rare Viognier grapes this wine is long, complex and planted in an area known for its pleasantly intriguing. It is production of red wine. Textural extremely eclectic and and intensely aromatic with exceptionally gastronomic, as pronounced fruit flavours of it pairs nicely with basically pear and banana, as well as any food. On the nose it has hints of the variety's herbal notes of white flowers. On the aroma of chamomile, lavender palate it is fresh, full and rich, and thyme. Recommended as with firm acidity. It can age an aperitif on warm days and a well. companion to light appetizers. ABV: 13% ABV: 13.5% Service: 11/12 C Service: 10/11 C Cortese, Favorita Viognier LOMBARDIA WHITE P I N O T N E R O Pinot Nero is the Italian for the vine known as Pinot Noir, one of the noblest grapes that belongs to the category of international vines. Originally from French Burgundy, Pinot Nero is widespread in Italy and particularly in the North. Notoriously it is a grape that is difficult to cultivate and from which to make wine, but once wine is made it can offer truly unique and rare emotions. It is usually vinified in red and in white for the production of sparkling wines. Rarely it is vinified in a still white wine. Curiously, the name Pinot Nero translates as black pine cone, because the conical shape of the grape cluster resembles the shape of a pine cone. Elegant wine made from SILLERY hand-picked and organic Pinot Nero Frecciarossa, grapes vinified as a Oltrepo' Pavese DOC white by gently pressing and removing the dark Pinot Nero skins before colour (vinified as a white) release, in a fashion similar to that used in the production of Champagne made from the same grapes.