Monday, 2 April 2012

A Sicilian Dessert Wine made from exotic grapes


This is Passopisciaro Bianco Dolce, an eclectic sweet wine from Sicily. It is made from Minnella, Grecanico, Catarratto, Coda di Volpe, Insolia and Caricante, which were picked and hung up to dry for some 5 months from cellar beams. With grapes normally associated with a number of different regions and with such a disregard for rules, this wine is unsurprisingly a Vino da Tavola (in the spirit of such eminent forebears as Sassicaia once was). This wine has a lovely golden tea colour, with a rich dried apricot nose with a bitter note. The dried apricot notes followed through the sweet palate (again with a slight touch of bitterness) to a sweet acid finish. Yummy!

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