Two wines from Alto Adige and sweetness from Romagna

I love wines from Alto Adige (South Tyrol) and I try to taste as many different wines as I can. This time there were one red and one white wine. From the producer J. Hofstätter I have tried their Pinot Grigio earlier so a red wine from them is a new experience. The wine is a Steinraffler which is made by the grape Lagrein and is from 2009. The smell is nice and the taste is of red currants and red cherries. Very good and is went very well with beef. Yet another excellent wine from this producer and the Lagrein grape I have to taste more.

A new acquaintance is the producer Elena Walch. It is a Pinot Grigio from 2012, it is a good drinking wine with notes of pear and apples with somce acidity.

For my homemade cantucci I had a passito wine from Romagna, namely Albana di Romagna from 2007 which is bottle 56 out of 900. It is by producer Poderi delle Rocche in Romagna between Bologna and Imola. The color of the passito wine is golden yellow almost amber. It goes very well with my homemade cantucci. The taste is not intense as the passito wines from Pantelleria for example. A good wine.

Yet another three Italian wines

It is interesting to see how a wine varies between different vintages. This time I had the chance to try two wines and see what one or two years difference makes.

The Kalis Cardonnay Grillo wine I had tasted the 2012 vintage and now I had the chance to taste the 2013 vintage. My recollection of the 2012 wine was that it was a decent drinking wine. But the 2013 vintage is something different, this is very light, not much flavour. A true table wine for those who like their wines simple and with not much taste. Not to my liking.

Each time I get to taste a Donnafugata wine is a good time. I had sampled their sweet Kabir wine from 2010 (Moscato di Pantelleria) and it was excellent. Now I have tasted the Kabir from 2012. I have to say that the 2012 vintage is very aromatic, much more than the 2010. Not to everyone's liking I would think due to the strong aromatic taste but for me this is paradise. Together with some sweet desserts like almond cake this would be a match in heaven.

The last wine is Manzone Bianco from the Veneto region by producer Cantina la Salute. I read a bad review of this in a magazine, but how they described it sounded like a wine for me. The smell is very good, almost fruity. The taste is almost like a pignoletto wine, some citrus and honey. I like it.

When in Siciliy drink Sicilian wine

During my recent Sicilian trip I had the chance to sample some Sicilian wine. In Trapani I had the chance to sample some wine from my favourite Sicilian producer Donnafugata. The wine in this case were the white wine Anthilia from 2013. This wine has the main grape of Catarratto and is complemented by other grapes. The smell is very fresh. The taste is very fresh with pear notes and some grapefruit. It is a delight to drink and I wish I could find bottles of it in Sweden.