I had blogged about this ad hoc Vinsanto tasting that I did during last year's Wine Fair, whilst going around the Italian Pavillion. This wine from the 1997 vintage was the oldest wine available for tasting, made by one of those agroturismo estates Tenuto il Corno, offering not only wine and olive oil, but also hotel accommodation. They followed a tradition way of making the Vinsanto, pressing the grapes on the first full moon of January. The traditional approach also meant they used the San Colombano grape which I had not tried before.
As for the wine, it was a golden tea with a sweet nutty dried apricot acid nose. The palate was sweet, rich and slightly smoky, still full of nutty notes,which persisted throughout to the finish, bring joined by dried apricot acidity to form a good supportive backbone.
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