Red Wines - Our Menu - Nonna Mia Cafe and Pizzeria - New Orleans Italian

bottle $22glass $5.50 Leaping Horse Merlot (California)

Chosen because of its straight-forward style, this merlot is light, mouth filling, yet smooth. Pleasant plum and black cherry flavors come forth on the palate, accented with aromas centered around blackberry.

bottle $26glass $6.50 Zonin Montepulciano (Abruzzo, Italy)

This wine offers a vivid reflection of the Mediterranean. The nose is filled with fine red fruit, distinct earth and plenty of berries. As it reaches the palate, vivid energetic spice, bright red plum fruit and refreshing raw black cherries give it the credentials to pair with typical Italian bistro cuisine such as pizza, pasta and risotto.

bottle $32glass $8

Castello di Querceto Chianti Classico (Toscana, Italy)

Chainti is well respected because of the complex geological growing region – multiple exposures on soil on the same estates. This particular Chianti is in its drinking prime. It is full-bodied and well structured. This wine features mature blackberry and currants, yet manages a soft, ripe style that is very generous.

bottle $35glass $8.75

Aglianico del Vulture (Basilicata, Italy)

This Venetian estate wine is 100% Primitivo which is comparable to our Zinfandel. Deeply colored, rich, and concentrated with flavors of zesty cherry, clove, wild blackberry, raspberry and spice.

bottle $35glass $8.75 Enrique Foster Ique Malbec (Argentina)

This concentrated bouquet is just bursting with tempting, smoky ripe blackberry aromas. On the palate, this wine is full-bodied and dense, packed with intense, plumy flavors and irresistibly smooth, rich tannin. This wine shows off the best that Malbec has to offer with uncommon complexity and balance.

bottle $35glass $8.75 Ramsay Pinto Noir (Mendocino, Calif)

This wine Is a classic Pinot Noir – lots of nice darkberry fruit and toasty oak along with the “earthiness” that is only seen in the best Pinot.

bottle $39glass $9.75 Cain Cuvée (Napa Valley, Calif.)

Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot

The Cain Cuvée reflects what a classical red wine can be. Bright aromas to combine with a fresh palate and a silky finish. Dense, deep purple red wine with notes of violets, smoked bacon, graphite, cedar and blackberry reduction with a hint of thyme. Big, fleshy fruit center with a velvet jacket softness.

bottle $43glass $10.75 Flora Springs Cabernet Sauvignon (Napa)

This winery is known for its well-balanced wines. It exhibits all the classic characteristics of a Napa Valley Cabernet with full, forward, mouth-filling black cherry fruit, cassis and cocoa. The big, ripe, sweet fruit in the front of the mouth moves right across the palate and into a smooth and lingering finish, wonderfully balanced oak undertones.

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