Grillo Chardonnay Gorgo Tondo Duca di Castelmonte 2003

Carlo Pellegrino (Italy)

Grillo, 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 and refined aromas which start with hints of banana and apple followed by aromas of hawthorn, broom, litchi, pear and hints of vanilla and lavender. In the mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and pleasing roundness, however balanced, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of banana, apple and pear. This wine ages for 4 months in barrique and for 2 months in bottle.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Mushroom and vegetable soups, Broiled fish, Roasted fish, Stuffed pasta, Sauteed white meat
Suggested glass	10 °C (50 °F)
(Young and Crisp White Wines)
July 2004