Name: Villa d’Orvieto
Variety: Grechetto,
Procanico, and Malvasia
Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Price: $6.95
Shop/wine
critic/Winery Review: It’s a blend of Grechetto, Procanico (Trebbiano), and
Malvasia. Fresh and crisp, it has a beautiful, floral bouquet. It is wonderful
with appetizers, fish, chicken, and salads.
My Review: The first
thing I noticed when this wine got poured was the fact that the color was
almost opaque. And the smell kind of reflected
that. It had a little sweeter smell than
the sparkling wine but just a hint but that was all I could get. There was no complexity only simplicity on
the nose. When I got into the taste I really
couldn’t pick anything out. It was light
on the tongue, on the finish and it didn’t stay with me. This might have been ok if I was drinking it
on a warm summer’s day but it snowed this morning! As I drank it I thought about how wonderful
this would be with some cheese, crackers, maybe a pear or apple slices. But that was the problem; this wine was so
light that you would need to have it with food to give it a little more body
and to maybe use it as a pallet cleanser between tastes.
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