A fresh shipment of Italian wines has arrived, replenishing some of our best sellers you’ve been waiting for, including Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio and Feudo Arancio Grillo!
93 pts – Kim Brebach (BWU20): This co-op in Trentino in the north of Italy is 120 years old. I’ve always liked this Gris for its Alpine-fresh style and its energy and zest, along with its mouth-filling flavour, depth and length.
92 pts – Ken Gargett (Wine Pilot): From Sicily, this is cracking value. Gleaming gold in colour, the nose offers exuberant aromatics with notes of orange rinds, nectarines, lemon curd, stone fruits, ripe peaches and apricots. Seamless in structure, there is a creamy texture, impressive balance and very good length. This is perhaps the best example of this grape I have seen from these guys. Delicious.
2020 Rotari Riserva Brut Italian Sparkling
92 pts – Ultimate Wine Challenge: Bring lemon yellow color. Vibrant, egg shell colored mousse is persistent. First inhalations detect bread dough, biscuit batter, dry stone. Taste profile features a toasty, fizzy, chardonnay thumbprint of tart green apple, gooseberry, pear flavors that last long and firmly into the dry aftertaste.
Mezza di Mezzacorona Italian Glacial Sparkling
91 pts – Angus Hughson (The Wine Pilot): They call the Mezza a glacial sparkling wine thanks to its home in the cool Italian Alps. It’s a unique blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Muller Thurgau, and is made in a similar way to Prosecco creating a bright, fresh and juicy sparkling wine. This wine is unique and elegant with its chalky, baked apple and citrus fruits plus a faint floral edge. It’s then dry, crisp and light weight with gentle earthy flavours finishing fine and long.
2020 Rotari Brut Gran Riserva Rosé Italian Sparkling
95 pts – Angus Hughson (Drinks Trade Magazine): Pale pink – solid, fresh, long, solid line. Lots of fun there, power length. Very good.
2023 Castel Firmian Riserva Pinot Grigio
96 pts – Kim Brebach (BWU20): I can’t find a source for the Reserva, have to check with the distributor and get back to you. Yes, coz this is the best PG I’ve seen in quite a while – part of it was fermented in barrel, stored on lees with regular stirring, and the result is a PG for serious adults, with all the usual goodies (pears and lychees and ginger) on the sidelines.
2022 Feudo Arancio Nero d’Avola
93 pts – Kim Brebach (BWU20): Nero is Sicily’s major red grape. It offers cherries and plums, licorice, tobacco and dried herbs with some smoked meat thrown in for good measure. It’s smooth and soft on the palate with a fine acidity guiding it to the clean finish. Good drinking alreay and a bargain at this price.
2022 Castel Firmian Riserva Teroldego Rotaliano
New Vintage!
Dark fruits on the nose. On the palate it is fresh and elegant, full bodied, displaying subtle notes of barrel ageing. This dark red wine has very attractive aromas of ripe fruit and berries.
