Smell the Roses!
October 03, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I wrote
about the compelling "garrigue" aromas, or the scents from the wild scrub
land often found in the wines of southern France > click on
www.thewineconsultant.com/newsletter/324 for
"Waiter! There is Garrigue in My
Glass!"
Now comes a delightful red wine
"Gavigliano" from the producer Luciano
Landi in the Marche region (Adriatic) of Italy possessing the
most fragrant aromas of crushed roses. Honestly, pick
your colors, but this wine smells like a huge bouquet of big, spicy full bloom
roses......HMMMM?? I have visions of
Rose Bowl floats on New Year's Day***. Of
course, this is wine....not rose water, so expect to find a
very charming soft black berry component from the varietal
grape Lacrima di Morro integrated with the "rose garden"
nose. Deeply colored in a red cloak, the 2005
Gavigliano delivers a delicious mouthful of subtle rose
petals infused with bright berry fruits. No thorns here, as the
texture is as well mannered as a first date, and the wine shows some overall
refinement.
Also available is a passito
style (the ripe grapes are sun dried on mats to
dehydrate and shrivel; resulting in a higher concentration of
sugar) dessert wine from Luciano Landi also
using 100% Lacrima di Morro d' Alba grapes.
More penetrating, concentrated, and reduced, but with the same integration of
roses and berry on the nose and palate as the "Gavigliano", this
wine's residual sugar is restrained by exacting acidity....and is never
cloying. Perfect with chocolate,
berries, biscotti, Italian trifle, or a pungent blue vein
cheese. A real conversation piece!
ORDER NOW BY
REPLYING DIRECTLY TO THIS E-MAIL!
2005 Luciano Landi
Gavigliano DOC - Lacrima di Moro d' Alba Superiore - Marche, Italy -
$22.50 - BEST DISCOUNT PRICING IS $19.13 A BOTTLE
2004 Luciano Landi Passito
di Lacrima di Morro DOC - Marche, Italy - 500 ml. - $46.95
- BEST DISCOUNT PRICING IS $39.91 A BOTTLE
ORDER ANY
COMBINATION OF SIX BOTTLES TO RECEIVE BEST DISCOUNT
PRICING!
THIS SATURDAY AT THE
TASTING BAR THE LINE UP WILL INCLUDE THE JUST RELEASED 2004 O' SHAUGHNESSY ("BIG O") CABERNET
SAUVIGNON FROM HOWELL MOUNTAIN,
NAPA VALLEY
$74.95 A BOTTLE - $71.20 ON 3 BOTTLES OR BEST DISCOUNT
PRICING IS $67.45 ON SIX
BOTTLES.
OF COURSE, YOU
MAY ORDER BY REPLYING DIRECTLY TO THIS
E-MAIL!
MARK YOU CALENDAR FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH - FOR OUR GAMBERO ROSSO "TRE BICCHIERE" - 3
GLASS AWARD, TASTING AT THE TASTING BAR FROM NOON TO 4 PM.
The annual Tre Bicchiere awards are the
most coveted honor given to Italian wines.
Wonder what a BCS Bowl float smells
like? GO BEARS!!
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