Cirò Rosso Classico Ronco dei Quattroventi 2000

Fattoria San Francesco (Italy)

Cirò (Calabria)

Gaglioppo
Red Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧✭

The wine shows a beautiful and intense ruby red color with nuances of garnet red, little transparency. The nose has personality with clean, pleasing and elegant aromas of black cherry, blueberry jam, plum, black pepper, cardamom, chocolate and carob followed by pleasing and clean hints of eucalyptus, licorice and vanilla. In mouth reveals a good correspondence to the nose, a slightly tannic attack however balanced by alcohol, intense flavors and full body. The finish is persistent with clean flavors of black cherry, blueberry and plum. A well made wine. This red Cirò ages in barrique for 12-13 months.

Alcohol: 14%

Game, Braised and stewed meat, Hard cheese, Roasted meat

Suggested glass	18 °C (64 °F)
(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)

Issue 11, September 2003

Fattoria San Francesco (Italy)

(Calabria)

Gaglioppo

Rose Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✧

Intense cherry pink and nuances of cherry pink, transparent.

Intense, clean, pleasing and refined, starts with hints of cherry, raspberry and blackberry followed by aromas of cyclamen, carnation, strawberry, blueberry, peach and plum.

Crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness.

Persistent finish with flavors of cherry, raspberry and blackberry.

4 months in barrique.

Alcohol: 13%

Cold cuts, Pasta with fish, Roasted fish, Roasted white meat, Legume soups, Mushroom soups

Suggested glass

12 °C
(53 °F)

(Young and Crisp Rose Wines)

December 2021

Fattoria San Francesco (Italy)

(Calabria)

Greco Bianco (50%), Chardonnay (50%)

White Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✭

Brilliant straw yellow and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent.

Intense, clean, pleasing and refined, starts with hints of apple, citrus fruits and banana followed by aromas of hawthorn, broom, plum, peach and pear.

Crisp attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, pleasing roundness.

Persistent finish with flavors of apple, banana and plum.

Greco Bianco ages in steel tanks, Chardonnay two months in barrique.

Alcohol: 12.5%

Pasta with fish, Sauteed white meat, Sauteed fish, Legume soups

Suggested glass

10 °C
(50 °F)

(Young and Crisp White Wines)

December 2021

Fattoria San Francesco (Italy)

(Calabria)

Gaglioppo

Red Wine

Score: ✧✧✧✧

Intense ruby red and nuances of purple red, little transparency.

Intense, clean, pleasing and refined, starts with hints of plum, black cherry and blackberry followed by aromas of violet, blueberry, raspberry, carob, black pepper, vanilla and menthol.

Properly tannic attack and however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors, agreeable.

Persistent finish with flavors of plum, black cherry and blackberry.

5 months in steel tanks, 4 months in barrique.

Alcohol: 13%

Broiled meat, Roasted meat, Stewed meat with mushrooms, Hard cheese

Suggested glass

18 °C
(64 °F)

(Bodied or Mature Red Wines)

December 2021

Fattoria San Francesco

Calabria (Italy)

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