I have never tasted a wine so complex of flavors that I am still stumped with a food match to enhance the food or the wine. The grape is Primativo, the Italian parent of California Zinfandel. Many of today's winemakers in Italy try to emulate California style Zinfandel with their Primativos. Nice wins with a steak or red sauce pasta or pizza, but you would never ever consider them more than just nice wines. This is DIFFERENT> very different.
At first sip, I was leaning to a sweet vermouth, but the wine is not sweet. The amazing aromas and flaovrs or wild herbs and berries permeates through the nose and palate up into the brain. This is one amazing wine. but I still dont know what it works with. The wine is so fantastic it doesn't need food, but I want to find something for food fun. It has to be out there.
The wine retails for $19.99. The few customers that have already tried it are agog over it. I like the word agog.
You have never ever had a wine like this. I am going to try to clean out the supplier ASAP!
Meanwhle, I will be drinking this wine a lot trying to find the perfect, heck just a good match for it.
Showing posts with label Wild Red Wine. Show all posts
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
April in Paris
is good, but give me the Cape on a day like today. For you non-New Englanders, the Cape is Cape Cod and today was gorgeous for a Spring day and the last of my Cape wine tasting shows that I attend.
Tasted a lot of mediocre wine, very little bad wine and only a few really yummy wines.
A big surprise was Sawbuck Chardonnay from California. Lots of complex fruit flavors, hints of apricot, pineapple, and apple in a nicely balanced, not too oaky, not un-oaked white wine. The price, well a Sawbuck of course. Very well done California afternoon sipping wine.
Not a surprise was the Nino Negri 2006 Sfursat. Yup, Sfursat is spelled korrektly. The local Chiavanesca grapes, local dialect for Nebbiolo, the grape of Barolo, for this wine are allowed to slightly dry, like an Amarone. You get those big woody fruit flavors in a powerful red wine that screams to be served with a Gorgonzola infused dish. Or just a plate of great cheeses. This will retail for $50 a bottle.
Will blog about a few more, when they come in. The above wines were promised delivery this week. We shall see.
Tasted a lot of mediocre wine, very little bad wine and only a few really yummy wines.
A big surprise was Sawbuck Chardonnay from California. Lots of complex fruit flavors, hints of apricot, pineapple, and apple in a nicely balanced, not too oaky, not un-oaked white wine. The price, well a Sawbuck of course. Very well done California afternoon sipping wine.
Not a surprise was the Nino Negri 2006 Sfursat. Yup, Sfursat is spelled korrektly. The local Chiavanesca grapes, local dialect for Nebbiolo, the grape of Barolo, for this wine are allowed to slightly dry, like an Amarone. You get those big woody fruit flavors in a powerful red wine that screams to be served with a Gorgonzola infused dish. Or just a plate of great cheeses. This will retail for $50 a bottle.
Will blog about a few more, when they come in. The above wines were promised delivery this week. We shall see.
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