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February 23 - February 25, 2018
A good Sangiovese tastes like lightly sour red cherries that make your eyes pop with excitement. The taste quickly changes to dark red cherries that savor your senses, and it leaves a melted cocoa powder aspect on the finish when oaked.
The second most produced grape in Italy is Montepulciano, a red grape.
Abruzzo is where you’ll also find one of the best types of rosé in Italy,
Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo rosé usually feature bright red fruit and dried candy notes.
A great Catarratto has a zesty aroma that will take you to a beach on an exotic island where you’re lying under the Mediterranean sun, eyes closed, smelling the surrounding lemon trees and hearing the flapping palm trees from the sea breeze. These wines usually have a medium to full body, tropical citrus flavors that makes you thirsty, slippery textures, red apple, and a salt-like minerality.
The generic Barbera that the Big Wine Industry pushes will be loaded with bitter cherry, oak, and chocolate notes to cover up the wine’s defects.
wine. This is the most produced red grape in Sicily. Tasting notes depend on where it’s grown on the island.
The best version, from Piemonte, is called Moscato d’Asti, but you can also find excellent Moscato in Puglia.
