Malvasia delle Lipari Passito 2001
Malvasia delle Lipari (Sicily)
Malvasia delle Lipari (95%), Corinto Nero (5%)
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Sweet Wine |
Score: ✧✧✧✧✧ |
Simply a great wine. It shows a beautiful and brilliant amber yellow color
and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals great
personality with intense, elegant, refined, rich and pleasing aromas of
apricot jam, peach jam, candied fruit, date, dried fig, dried flowers,
almond, orange marmalade, honey, hazelnut, citrus fruit peel followed by a
pleasing hint of rosemary. In mouth is rich and charming, adequate
sweetness, smooth and round with intense flavors, very balanced. Excellent
correspondence to the nose. The finish is very persistent with pleasing and
long flavors of apricot, peach, honey, citrus fruit peel and candied fruit.
A truly well made wine, extraordinary also when tasted alone. This Malvasia
delle Lipari is produced with late harvested grapes which are subsequently
dried on mats. The wine ages for 18 months and for 6 months in bottle.
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Alcohol: 13%
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Confectionery, Dried fruit tarts especially of almonds, Hard and piquant cheese
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Suggested glass |
13 °C (55 °F) |
(Sweet Wines) |
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Issue 9, June 2003 |
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