Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Passito Tordiruta 2000

Terre Cortesi Moncaro (Italy)

Verdicchio
Sweet Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

The wine shows a beautiful and brilliant amber yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals personality with intense, pleasing, clean, refined and very elegant aromas of dried apricot, candied fruit, quince jam, peach jam, almond, orange peel, honey and dried flowers followed by pleasing and intense aromas of caramel, enamel, vanilla and saffron as well as the pleasing and typical aroma of noble rot (Botrytis Cinerea). In the mouth has excellent correspondence to the nose, velvety and very agreeable with a well balanced sweetness, intense flavors and good structure. The finish is very persistent, almost endless, with clean and intense flavors of dried apricot, peach jam and quince jam. A great and very well made sweet wine. Tordiruta is produced with late harvested grapes affected by noble rot and dried in mats for 10 weeks, ferments and ages in barrique for 12 months followed by one year of aging in bottle.
Alcohol: 12.5%
Hard and piquant cheese, Fruit tarts, Strüdel
Suggested glass	14 °C (57 °F)
(Sweet Wines)
Issue 11, September 2003