Orvieto Classico Superiore Campo del Guardiano 2000

Palazzone (Italy)

Orvieto (Umbria)

Procanico (50%), Grechetto (25%), Verdello, Drupeggio, Malvasia Bianca (25%)
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

The wine shows a beautiful light straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent. The nose has intense, clean, elegant and pleasing aromas of hawthorn , broom, almond, apple, medlar, hazelnut, pear and peach as well as a pleasing hint of rosemary. In the mouth reveals good correspondence to the nose, a crisp and round attack however well balanced by alcohol, good body and intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with good flavors of apple, pear and peach. This Orvieto Classico is ages in bottle for 16-18 months.

Alcohol: 14%

Roasted fish, Crustaceans, Pasta and risotto with fish, Sauteed white meat, Soft cheese

Suggested glass	11 °C (51 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)

Issue 10, Summer 2003

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