Cabreo La Pietra 2003

Tenute Folonari (Italy)

(Tuscany)

Chardonnay
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This wine shows a brilliant straw yellow color and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas that start with hints of apple, banana and vanilla followed by aromas of pineapple, acacia, hawthorn, pear, grapefruit, plum and hazelnut. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and pleasing roundness, however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of banana, pear and pineapple. A well made wine. Cabreo La Pietra ages for 8 months in barrique followed by at least 6 months of aging in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

Roasted white meat, Roasted fish, Broiled crustaceans, Stuffed pasta

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

Issue 37, January 2006

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