Ninfea 2003
(Sicily)
Chardonnay, Grillo
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White Wine |
Score: ✧✧✧✧ |
This wine shows a brilliant straw yellow color and nuances of greenish
yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and
refined aromas which start with hints of hazelnut, banana and grapefruit
followed by aromas of acacia, hawthorn, passion fruit, apple, yeast,
toasted, vanilla and praline. The mouth has good correspondence to the
nose, a crisp attack and pleasing smoothness, however balanced by alcohol,
good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with
flavors of banana, hazelnut and grapefruit. The Grillo grape used for the
production of Ninfea ages for 6 months in steel tanks whereas the
Chardonnay ages for 6 months in cask.
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Alcohol: 13.5%
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Stuffed pasta, Roasted fish, Roasted white meat
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Suggested glass |
11 °C (51 °F) |
(Bodied and Mature White Wines) |
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Issue 35, November 2005 |
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