This was the wine I bought from the shop I mentioned in a previous blog. Now Palinda as I have already mentioned is a Chinese owned Margaret River winery and I don't know if this particular wine is on sale elsewhere (it was not on their website), but the description is certainly inaccurate to say the least. Frizzante means semi-sparkling in Italian and should have bubbles (these probably need to be come from grape fermentation) but its pressure is lower than full sparkling wines. This wine contains no bubbles at all! Maybe some marketing person drank a frizzante sweet wine and thought that it would be nice to use the term on this sweetie, but ....
This half bottle suggests sweet wine and the label does have something to this effect on it. Unable to find anything in its website about it, I am at a loss to find out how this wine is made. As for the wine, it was a nice limpid ruby, with a sweet (initially mildly so) berry nose with a hint of meatiness, unfortunately marred by an initial hot alcoholic whiff. The palate was sweet and luscious with berry notes. Tannins emerge mid palate and accompanied the sweetness to give structure. What is surprising on reviewing my notes was that there is no overt acidity ( not for me to note down anyway), but as it was not cloying, it must have been there in the balance. It went quite well with the remnants of the Roquefort.
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