Colli Orientali del Friuli Rosazzo Bianco Terre Alte 2007

Livio Felluga (Italy)

Friulano, Pinot Bianco, Sauvignon Blanc
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✧

Colli Orientali del Friuli Rosazzo Bianco Terre Alte shows a brilliant straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of peach, pear and pineapple followed by aromas of medlar, almond, broom, nettle, hawthorn, apple, grapefruit, elder flower, plum and vanilla. The mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness. The finish is persistent with long flavors of peach, pear and pineapple. The grapes Pinot Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc age for 10 months in steel tanks, whereas the Friulano grape ages for 10 months in barrique.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Roasted fish, Stuffed pasta, Stewed fish, Fish and mushroom soups, Roasted white meat
Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)
November 2009