From - Veneto, Italy
Grape - Garganega
Alcohol - 12.5% abv
Available from - Waitrose
Price - £18.99
Appearance - Clear, medium+ intensity, lemon-green
Nose - Clean, medium+ intensity, youthful with aroma of ripe pears, citrus (grapefruit and lime), and a touch floral.
Palate - Dry, medium+ acid, full body, medium+ length, medium+ intensity, with stone fruit (peach), ripe apples and pears, citrus (lime), stone minerality and maybe a touch of honey.
This is a beautiful, complex, full bodied wine, that I would be brilliant with a risotto, I reckon.
Saturday, 6 June 2015
Torres Floralis Moscatel Oro
From - Penedes, Catalunya
Grape - Moscatel
Alcohol - 15%
Available from - Waitrose
Price - £7.49
Appearance - Clear, deep, tawny
Nose - Clean, medium- intensity, with grape and slightly nutty aroma.
Palate - Sweet, medium+ acid, medium length, full bodied, with raisins, prunes, sweet spice, ginger and candied peel, like Christmas time!
This is a great value sweet wine from the accomplished familia Torres, that is a great match-up for a variety of desserts, and was very agreeable with my strawberries and Booja-Booja vanilla ice-cream. Yum yum.
Grape - Moscatel
Alcohol - 15%
Available from - Waitrose
Price - £7.49
Appearance - Clear, deep, tawny
Nose - Clean, medium- intensity, with grape and slightly nutty aroma.
Palate - Sweet, medium+ acid, medium length, full bodied, with raisins, prunes, sweet spice, ginger and candied peel, like Christmas time!
This is a great value sweet wine from the accomplished familia Torres, that is a great match-up for a variety of desserts, and was very agreeable with my strawberries and Booja-Booja vanilla ice-cream. Yum yum.
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