Well I wasn't planning on posting today... I like to give some time between each so hopefully its not too much. However after an interesting bit of education today I thought even for my own sake I needed to post on the blog.
The wine shop I frequent was having a Saturday tasting of Italian wines. In the past Italian wines, as well as even some Bordeaux or some Cahors are to dry for me. I equate them to funky dirt, rubber, and wood alcohol flavors, and they literally make my tongue feel dry or chalky. That's what we call tannins or tanic I was told today. :) I told the shop's owner I am finding I am not as big a fan of such wines but have really fallen for and prefer the silky feeling, fruit influnced but not sweet Chardonnay grapes and Pinot Noir grapes of Burgundy. He laughed and told me I was destined to a life of heartache. :)
To my surprise I did find one wine today that was both confusing as well as something I quite liked.
Ognissole Primitivo Di Mandura 2005 (Italia) - Deep garnet or even sanguine colored in the glass, I found this wine had thick legs and it is 14% Alc. The aroma is of cherries & currants, and is nicely fruit forward with an alcohol waft at end. Its a bold wine up front and big on the palate. It reminds me of biting into a full bodied plump cherry all the way through down to sucking on the pit to get all the flesh. Chewy cherries on the start, to a black tea feeling and flavor in the middle, with a cherry pit/pith flavor left in the mouth at end.
Its wine that confused me a bit becasue I am used to smelling cherries in Pinot Noir and not much else. I love that in a Pinot Noir too. But the feel and size of this wine is definitely not Pinot Noir. Its a 10 dollar quaffer of dry unsweetened fruit. If you like big wines that are moderately dry but not to the intesity of some big reds you should try to find and taste this.
All this and for only $10 its a worthwhile wine for with food. Cant wait to try it with some rosemary pork, ossombuco, or braised lamb chops. $ another good value
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