Producer: La Corte Style: Red Wine Grape Type:Zinfandel Origin:Italy Region: Other Italy
Expert Reviews
90 Points | International Wine Cellar , July/August 2008
Ruby black. Spicy aromas of red berries, tobacco and mint benefit from a pretty mineral nuance that gives this wine a more refined quality than the Solyss. Enters the mouth rich and smooth, with bright acids giving lift to the red berry and mineral flavors. Pure, sharply focused and still youthfully unevolved, this is a more restrained style of zinfandel but one with sneaky concentration.
Italy, like France, offers a world of wine styles within a single country: dry
Italian white wines ranging from lively and minerally to powerful and full-bodied; cheap
and cheerful Italian red wines in both a cooler, northern style and a richer, warmer southern
style; structured, powerful reds capable of long aging in bottle; sparkling wines;
sweet wines and dessert wines. Read More »
Zinfandel is not the rage it was in the 1980s and early 1990s, as there are now too many wines made from overripe fruit or from young vines, or overwhelmed by excessive use of new barrels. Today's Zin styles range from elegant, taut, and claret-like midweights to superripe and potty behemoths, with off-the-charts... Read More »
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