Cervaro della Sala 2002

Castello della Sala (Italy)

(Umbria)

Chardonnay (80%), Grechetto (20%)
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

This wine shows a brilliant golden yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals personality with intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of quince, banana, hawthorn and toasted wood followed by aromas of acacia, pineapple, honey, mineral, hazelnut, pear, grapefruit and coffee. In the mouth has very good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however well balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is very persistent with long flavors of quince, banana, pineapple and grapefruit. A very well made white wine. Cervaro della Sala ferments and ages in barrique for 5 months followed by 10 months of aging in bottle.

Alcohol: 13%

Roasted fish, Stuffed pasta, Roasted white meat, Stewed fish

Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)

Issue 26, January 2005

Castello della Sala (Italy)

Orvieto (Umbria)

Procanico (40%), Grechetto (27%), Verdello (15%), Drupeggio, Malvasia (3%), Chardonnay (15%)

White Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✭

The 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 broom, pear and plum followed by aromas of pineapple, litchi, apple, grapefruit and hawthorn. In the mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of apple, plum and pineapple. This wine ages in steel tanks.

Alcohol: 13%

Fried fish, Sauteed fish, Pasta and risotto with fish and crustaceans

Suggested glass

10 °C
(50 °F)

(Young and Crisp White Wines)

Issue 26, January 2005

Castello della Sala

Umbria (Italy)

Cervaro della Sala 2002

Castello della Sala (Italy)

Orvieto Classico Superiore 2003

Castello della Sala (Italy)