Verdicchio di Matelica Passito Carpe Diem 2001

Belisario (Italy)

Verdicchio di Matelica
Sweet Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

This wine shows a brilliant amber yellow color and nuances of golden yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals good personality with intense, clean, pleasing, refined and elegant aromas which start with hints of dried apricot and peach jam followed by good aromas of candied fruit, caramel, ripe banana, dried fig, almond, honey, citrus fruit peel, vanilla and hints of enamel. In the mouth has very good correspondence to the nose, a sweet and slightly crisp attack however well balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, pleasing sweetness. The finish is persistent with good flavors of apricot, peach and honey. A well made wine. Carpe Diem is produced is dried grapes and ages for 10 months in steel tanks and for 2 months in barrique.
Alcohol: 15%
Confectionery, Almond cakes, Hard and piquant cheese
Suggested glass	14 °C (57 °F)
(Sweet Wines)
Issue 18, April 2004