Otello Rose

For midsummer I had the chance to taste an Italian spumante called Otello Rose thanks to a friend of mine. Spumante is an Italian sparkling wine which can be dry, semi sweet or very sweet. We all thought this one would be half sweet and would make a good aperitiff wine for our midsummer dinner. But on the first taste there were no sweet taste at all. It tasted very dry and looking at the back label it said extra dry. I found it smelled like rasperries. The taste was very strong, rasperry like but with a strong tqaste like a fortified wine like sherry. Strange but good. It is always nice to be pleasently suprised by wines.