Delia Nivolelli Chardonnay Duca di Castelmonte 2003

Carlo Pellegrino (Italy)

Chardonnay
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✭

The wine shows a pale golden 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 litchi followed by aromas of acacia, pineapple, broom, apple, pear, peach and hawthorn. In the mouth has goof correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and pleasing crispness, however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable. The finish is persistent with flavors of pineapple, pear and litchi. This wine ages in barrique for at least 5 months followed by 2 months of aging in bottle.
Alcohol: 14%
Pasta with fish and mushrooms, Fish and mushroom soups, Stuffed pasta, Broiled fish
Suggested glass	10 °C (50 °F)
(Young and Crisp White Wines)
July 2004