Vini Del Sole Nero d'Avola Sicilia IGT 2008
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Vini Del Sole Nero d'Avola Sicilia IGT is a perfect pizza and pasta wine with its spicy red and dark fruity flavors.
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Release Notes:
Nero d'Avola is the best red grape of Sicily. Until the 1980s, it was blended into French and northern Italian wines to give them extra color, body, flavor and alcohol. Those attributes, dense color, rich fruit flavors and high acidity despite the island’s often stifling growing conditions, when properly tamed create some delicious easy-drinking reds.
Tasting Notes:
A deep ruby red colored wine. The nose is very attractive with berry and cherry fruit, exotic spice and herb notes. On the palate, blackberry, blueberry, plum and mulberry flavors are balanced by moderate acidity before a very round, fruity finish that closes with soft, well-integrated tannins. Enjoy now through 2013 with roasted or grilled meats, lamb, meatballs, pizza, pasta, swordfish and hard chesses.
Region:
Sicily was long the sleeping giant of Italian wine. Over the last 25 years, this beautiful island’s potential to produce interesting white and red wines has started to be realized. The... Read more
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Overview
Greek settlers first planted vineyards in Italy sometime around 800BC. Since then, wine has been entrenched in the Italian culture, ‘as common as water on the dinner table’. ... Read more
