Elite 2001

Institut Agricole Régional (Italy)

(Vallée d'Aoste)

Viognier
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

The wine shows a soft straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals good personality with intense, clean, elegant, pleasing and refined aromas which start with an intense aroma of peach followed by pleasing aromas of banana, litchi, apple, pear, grapefruit, hazelnut, acacia, hawthorn as well as pleasing aromas of vanilla and toasted. In the mouth has excellent correspondence to the nose, very balanced, pleasing crispness, good body and intense flavors. The finish is very persistent with flavors of peach, pear, apple and hazelnut. A well made wine. Élite ages in steel tanks for 3 months followed by 9 months in barrique and 1 month of aging in bottle.

Alcohol: 13.5%

White meat, Roasted meat, Soft cheese, Pasta and risotto with fish

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

Issue 13, November 2003

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