Moncaro at Zizzi
This bottle of Moncaro 2005 was bought in a restaurant, so its £11.95 price tag is a bit distorted. However, it was a good wine and surprisingly, Zizzi‘s house white in Cambridge, made from the Trebbiano grape. It came in at 11.5% with a faint nose of farmyards and melons. The body had a hint of pears, but without that tanginess that you get from pear drops. There was a vague hint of ice-cream in the finish, but you’d probably miss it if you weren’t looking at the dessert menu at the time.
To accompany this, I had the four cheeses pizza, ‘quattro formaggi’ and my dining companion had a chicken and pasta dish with a Meditteranean salad on the side. On the whole, the service was rather poor, with half a dozen mysteriously empty tables around us, even though there were plenty of staff and a fifteen minute wait to begin. Perhaps they were short on chefs that night. Zizzi is owned by the same people as Ask, but I’ve always found Zizzi’s food more interesting and lively.