Cortona Chardonnay Il Marzocco 2004

Avignonesi (Italy)

Cortona (Tuscany)

Chardonnay (85%), Sauvignon Blanc (15%)
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

This Chardonnay shows a brilliant straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas that start with hints of banana, plum and apple followed by aromas of plum, vanilla, hazelnut, pineapple, hawthorn and beeswax. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of banana, plum and hazelnut. Cortona Chardonnay Il Marzocco ages for 6 months in barrique followed by 12 months of aging in bottle.

Alcohol: 13%

Mushrooms and fish soups, Roasted fish, Stuffed pasta with fish and crustaceans, Roasted white meat

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

Issue 51, April 2007

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