Variety: Frascati
Region: Frascati
Country: Italy
Year: 2012?
Price: $12 sale $5.95
Shop/wine critic/winery review:
A blend of 60% Malvasia Bianca di Candia 30% Trebbiano and 10% Malvasia del Lazio. This Frascati, made from grapes grown in volcanic soils near Rome and cold filtered, is a pale straw gold. On the nose it offers light-as-a-zephyr lemon and a hint of grass. On the tongue it is ultra crisp and delightfully flinty, its lemon and clementine flavors as smooth as old silk. At the end of a nice clean finish a dab of ripe pear takes a bow.
Your Review:
I was fortunate enough to be one of the wine pourers this week, so I was able to not only taste the wine, but talk about it with the employees and other customers. I really really enjoyed that, especially as I am still so new to the tasting process and vocabulary. So this wine had some lemon hints. I found it interesting when someone said it smelled like "furniture cleaner." I definitely had a "clean" flavor and texture in the mouth. I could imagine drinking this in Rome on a summer afternoon.
I did not have this with food.
